In this 8th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how their Kazakh landlady’s pigs used to disturb her husband, Reb Levik‘s studies. Annoyed, he would shoo them away with his stick. This greatly annoyed the peasant woman, who admittedly loved her pigs more than her own children.
When attending the annual conference of Chabad emissaries in New York, I am frequently tempted to contrast it with similar conventions whose attendees are mandated with securing the Jewish future. Particularly the Jewish Federations’ General Assembly comes to mind as it often takes place around the same time.
A new music video shows exclusive footage from Rubashkin’s Game Plan, the long awaited documentary film focusing both on the case of Sholom Rubashkin, and dual reaction of anger and solidarity from the Jewish community following the unprecedented harsh sentence handed down in the case.
When it comes to student cooking, I consider myself a serial bad-habit maker; a culinary Jack the Ripper. I’ve committed all the gastronomic sins: Buying microwave meals, not checking the sell-by date on milk and the classic ‘healthy epiphany.’ Over-zealously buying vegetables then forgetting about them later, leading to a severe biohazard situation developing in the fridge two weeks later… (or was it a month?)
Yossi Nassy (Los Angeles, CA) and Chaya Loloyan (Encino, CA)
On Monday, 2 Kislev (November 28), OK Kosher Certification held its 13th annual international Mashgiach Conference in Chovevei Torah in Brooklyn, NY. Over 150 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including rabbis from Japan, India, Greece, Israel, Poland, Germany, Belgium and others from around the world.
A major and historic event will take place at 10 AM, Friday, December 9, 2011 when Rabbi Menachem M. Stern, a bearded Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi, will be sworn into the U.S. Army as a Chaplain, First Lieutenant.
Getzy and Alisa Fellig (San Francisco, CA)
While Chabad’s Shluchim gathered for their conference in New York last week, their children were enjoying a special camp.
A pile of discarded cardboard boxes became a raging inferno at around 9:00 PM tonight (Wednesday) on Kingston Ave. between Crown and Montgomery St. in front of Flash Photography. Witnesses said the fire was lit deliberately. It was put out shortly after by the Fire Department.
Eliyahu and Dena Schusterman (Atlanta, GA)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state-run website for job seekers now lists 52,000 openings statewide.
A New Brunswick man was arrested today on charges of smashing windows at five Highland Park stores that were apparently targeted because they are owned by Jewish merchants.
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