The Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement is making sure that Jews who pass through Israel’s capital will never have to hunt to find one of its famed Chabad Houses, just in time for the beginning of the Jewish New Year.
Dear Crownheights.info Readers:
As many of you have probably seen yesterday on this website, the NY Post ran an article about me and my business. The article certainly portrayed me and my business in a less than positive light. But I can live with that. My business is very controversial, and I have brought lawsuits against some very wealthy and powerful individuals. Therefore, it was no surprise when one of the defendants in my lawsuits succeeded in having a tabloid run a story about me containing many extreme exaggerations and misrepresentations regarding me and my motives, in an effort to clear his name in the press rather than in a courtroom, where law and reality govern. But the underlying merits of the article are not the subject of this letter.
Free checking is going the way of the free checked bag.
A tradition of leaving the stove on during holidays in the Orthodox community is causing concern for some North Jersey fire officials who are trying to reach observant Jewish residents with a message about safety.
President Obama spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus awards banquet over the weekend. His 28 minutes of remarks had a strange tone to them, as if somehow Obama was equating support for his jobs program legislation with the far more important and historic civil rights movement.
Ralph Musolino unreeled his Stanley tape measure across the walkway of a small park in TriBeCa, marking off space for the construction of a Jewish ritual hut known as a sukkah, while Rabbi Zalman Paris, in auburn beard and tzitzit fringes, crouched nearby holding the tape’s other end.
Yossi and Chani (nee Weiss) Baram (Crown Heights)
Yekusiel (ben Yosef Yitzchok) Kalmenson (New Haven, CT) and Hindi (bas Yossi) Chazanow (Los Angeles, CA)
The recently announced trial program to introduce cell phones to underground subway stations will be expanded to include all stations throughout the boroughs – including Brooklyn – by 2016, an MTA spokesman said.
Japan’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster six months ago left Chabad of Tokyo representative Rabbi Mendi Sudakevich with an unfinished building, a half-completed mikvah, and a whole lot of uncertainty.
As Lily Talebi’s hands kneaded a ball of dough, the Oklahoma City woman envisioned teaching her young daughter the prayers and techniques central to baking challah bread.
The tens of thousands who will be leaving Eretz Yisrael ahead of Rosh Hashanah began making their way to Ben-Gurion International Airport on Sunday morning (26 Elul), and the congestion was evident, especially flights to Kiev, impacting Breslov Chassidim. Organizers in Uman report that expect upwards of 35,000 mispallalim this year, many coming from Eretz Yisrael.
Confused by this blog post’s title? Don’t worry: That’s “happy new year” in Icelandic.
Let’s take a moment from our busy Sundays to remember the plight of New York City’s fancy restaurant owners, who—because of “draconian state regulations” passed earlier this year—have become increasingly vulnerable to lawsuits filed by employees seeking back pay and tips. Why can’t those workers just enjoy the privilege of working and “being seen” in popular restaurants?
It could be New York’s longest schlep: Every Saturday, young rabbis trudge 15 miles from Brooklyn to worship with some of the last Jews left in one Bronx neighborhood.
“Congregation Levi Yitzchok of Morristown experienced the most Historic day in it’s history” beamed their President, Ezra Solomon, The New Sefer Torah was inaugurated on Yud Tes Elul 5771, corresponding to Sunday, September 18, 2011.
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