Israeli Rabbis: Alternative Medicine Based on Idolatry
Ynet
Senior Religious rabbis have stated that some alternative medicine methods are “based on idolatry”.
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Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.
Video: Living Apart in Crown Heights
Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.
Israeli Attorney Missing After Hippo Attack in Zambia
JTA
An Israeli attorney on vacation with his family in Zambia is missing after a hippopotamus attacked and flipped the boat he was riding in with his children.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
She is survived by her husband Tzvi, and children Rabbi Elimelech (West Hartford, CT), Boruch (Baltimore, MD), and Yitzchok (Crown Heights).
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski OBM
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
She is survived by her husband Tzvi, and children Rabbi Elimelech (West Hartford, CT), Boruch (Baltimore, MD), and Yitzchok (Crown Heights).
Op-Ed: Leadership Helped Bring Crown Heights Back from the Brink
by Shea Hecht – Forward
Living Together?: There’s always been some friction between Jews and blacks in Crown Heights. Leadership helped steer both sides away from confrontation.
August marks the 20th anniversary of the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history: a three-day nightmare that historians and journalists call the “Crown Heights riots” and that many members of the Jewish community have called a “pogrom.”
Wednesday Night L’Chaim
Zalmy Kass (Toronto, Ontario) and Rivkah Mizrachi (Brooklyn, NY)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Arutz 7
A Chabad rabbi kidnapped by a gang in Ecuador and then released has arrived in Israel with his wife and children. “We said Psalms for his safe return”, said his family.
Chabad Kidnap Victim Arrives in Israel
Arutz 7
A Chabad rabbi kidnapped by a gang in Ecuador and then released has arrived in Israel with his wife and children. “We said Psalms for his safe return”, said his family.
NY Synagogue Confronts Flood After Record Rains
Quickly rising floodwaters trapped cars in Long Island on Sunday.
The record-flooding that struck New York City last weekend left a trail of water damage throughout the state in its wake, inundating at least one Jewish institution in Long Island.
Texas Jewish Community Celebrates Torah Completion
Edinburg Monitor
From left, Dan Vaisman and Moshe Klein, a scribe, write a letter in the Torah on Sunday during the Rio Grande Valley Children’s Torah completion and dedication ceremony at the Chabad Center in Edinburg.
Children played, whiskey flowed and kosher hot dogs seared as dozens celebrated one of the most sacred events in the Jewish community Sunday afternoon.
NY1
After young Leiby Kletzky was allegedly abducted and brutally killed in Brooklyn last month, some area businesses are joining forces with the district attorney's office for the “Safe Stop” program, which aims to help children and senior citizens in need.
Safe Stop Program Launches in Brooklyn
NY1
After young Leiby Kletzky was allegedly abducted and brutally killed in Brooklyn last month, some area businesses are joining forces with the district attorney’s office for the “Safe Stop” program, which aims to help children and senior citizens in need.
Ukraine Mohel Performs 4,500th Circumcision
Mohel Rabbi ‘Yasha’ Gaissinovitch (l) listens to the blessings after performing a Bris in Rostov, Russia.
Rabbi Yaacov Gaissinovitch, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, doctor and mohel who sometimes performs up to five circumcisions in a single day, presided over his 4,500th circumcision last week, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk announced in a statement.
Jews Have Little to Fear From Black Anti-Semitism
by Jim Sleeper – Forward
Early in the 1990s — so many years ago that it’s nowhere to be found online — I was on a panel about black anti-Semitism at New York’s 92nd Street Y, where the historian of slavery Eugene Genovese observed that if a black demagogue called Italian Americans “racists,” they’d come after him with baseball bats, but if he called Jews “racists,” they’d hold a few conferences at the 92nd Street Y.
How to Hijack an Airplane in Three Seconds
The Atlantic
One-one thousand. Two-one thousand. Three-one thousand. And just like that, it can happen: From the front row of a passenger airplane, a group of hijackers leap from their seats and race toward the cockpit, leaving flight attendants, galley carts, and other improvisational means of defense in their wake.
New Israeli Jewish Center Broken Into and Vandalized
Beersheba residents were shocked to discover an act of vandalism at their local Chabad House Monday morning.
Health Dep. Warns to Avoid Mosquito Bites After Death of 4-Year-Old
AP
State health officials are urging New Yorkers to take precautions to prevent mosquito bites after a 4-year-old girl in Oswego County died of a rare brain infection carried by the insects.
The following is a letter from Hatzolah of Los Angeles to the entire community:
L.A. Forbids Hatzolah Sirens and Patient Transport
The following is a letter from Hatzolah of Los Angeles to the entire community:
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish woman was attacked, shoved to the ground and robbed on Eastern Parkway Monday morning as she was about to enter an apartment building, and the entire incident was captured on a surveillance camera.
Woman Attacked, Mugged on Eastern Parkway
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish woman was attacked, shoved to the ground and robbed on Eastern Parkway Monday morning as she was about to enter an apartment building, and the entire incident was captured on a surveillance camera.
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