Male circumcision is legal in the Netherlands but the body representing the country’s doctors wants to end the practice.
Today, Melbourne welcomed its newest group of student Shluchim to the Rabbinical College of Australia & NZ (Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne).
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks delivered the Invocation prayer in the US Senate on Wednesday, becoming the first Jewish community leader from the UK to fulfill the honor.
A hundred years after the Kenyan Jewish community built their first synagogue in Nairobi, I celebrated Sukkot there.
In Lubavitch there is the phenomenon of the so called “Chabad Lite” community. People who grew up as Lubavitchers, consider themselves Lubavitchers, but do nothing to actually be Lubavitch. They don’t dress like the way a Lubavitcher would dress, speak the way one would speak, or act in the basic way a chossid would act. In general, I have no issue with these types of people; many of them are my friends and neighbors and we get along wonderfully. I have one major issue: they consider themselves Lubavitch, and take part in our mosdos.
Thousands of children visited the Chabad-Lubavitch run synagogue in the trendy Shenkin neighborhood of Tel Aviv over the course of last month, flocking to the facility with their public school classmates to learn about the Jewish holidays and receive their first bound volumes of the Torah.
Every Crown Heights resident who doesn’t own a driveway or garage is familiar with the scene: Arriving home at last after a long day, only to end up circling the neighborhood looking for a parking spot for longer than it took to drive home. Today, a City Council committee voted to help end this situation. Opponents to the bill, however, say it will make it almost impossible to find parking when visiting elsewhere in the city, and is just another scheme for the city to increase ticket revenue.
When a car ploughed through the front window of a shop on Bondi Road this week, the NSW Ambulance Service was there within minutes. But Hatzolah was there faster.
President Barack Obama had no reservations attempting to block the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican man that was convicted in 1994 of the rape and murder of a 16-yearold girl in San Antonio. On July 5, 2011, The Guardian reported that: “The White House has asked the US Supreme Court to put the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia on hold while Congress passes a law that would prevent the convicted rapist and murderer from being put to death along with dozens of other foreign nationals who were denied proper access to diplomatic representation before trials for capital crimes.”
Moshe Teldon (Commack, NY) and Esther Leah Flinkenstein (Wilmette, IL)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30 PM
The Blachman family is sitting Shiva after the passing of Chaya Rifkah OBM, at 682 Lefferts Ave. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Shachris – 7:30
Mincha: Thursday – 5:30, Friday – 1:00, Sunday and Monday – 4:30
Maariv – Bizmanoh
Please send memories and condolences to: blachmanfamily682@gmail.com or (718) 493-0055
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
After a successful debut in the ING NYC Marathon last year, Team Friendship will run again this Sunday, November 6 to benefit Friendship Circle International, a non-profit organization that pairs children with special needs with teenagers to form mutually beneficial relationships.
Mushki, given the paucity of my experience in conducting Jewish weddings, I feared that I’d perform the ceremony imperfectly and my own daughter would end up living perpetually in sin. So, I brought in the heavy guns – your new grandfather-in-law, Rabbi Zalman Lipsker of Philadelphia – to join me in conducting your wedding.
When Danielle Goldblatt and her husband Joshua moved to New York City’s Roosevelt Island in March, she didn’t know anything about its Jewish community. As it turns out, she lives just floors above Rabbi Zalman and Nechama Duchman, who run the island’s Chabad-Lubavitch center.
Mordechai and Chaya Rochel (nee Hecht) Zaetz (Brentwood, CA)
Yos and Tovah (nee Seigel) Hott (Monsey, NY)
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