
Op-Ed: Anti-Semitism Did Not Cause the ’91 Riots
‘Crown Heights was about ‘black anti-Semitism’!” Twenty years later, I still hear the trope.
‘Crown Heights was about ‘black anti-Semitism’!” Twenty years later, I still hear the trope.
Roving Rabbis Mendel Yaffee and Shimon Kivman are visiting the Isle of Man this week. The Roving Rabbi Project sends out rabbis and rabbinical students across the globe bringing Judaism or a helping hand to communities which either do or do not have a rabbi or a full ledger Jewish community.
Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia — turning the patients’ own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells.
Avi Slutzkin (Johannesburg, SA) and Gavi Brenner (Milwaukee, WI)
Chabad Lubavitch of Markham has launched a new branch in the Bayview-Steeles area, under the leadership of Rabbi Yehuda and Chayala Zarchi. Chabad decided to establish the new branch, which is on Laureleaf Road, in the hopes that it will attract the thousands of unaffiliated Jews who live along the Bayview corridor and serve as a centre where they can explore Jewish life.
From hatchery to hot dog, JTA shows you how a kosher chicken is raised, slaughtered and turned into lunch.
Some of the players in the Crown Heights drama look back, in their own words:
Athol, with a population near 700 and at most a handful of Jews, is not high on the priority list of most Jewish organizations.
Once lit, a single candle can be used ignite other lights in an endless number of places. But without that initial spark, that same candle cannot light even the smallest space.
Shlomo Nadtochy ( Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) and Liora Alter (Toronto, Canada)
In recent months the drama over the election of Rabbi Yosef Braun along with the deceptions therein has been little discussed in the public. Despite the silence, however, the matter is far from resolved. In a collection of fiery letters obtained by CrownHeights.info between the parties involved, serious disrespect and contention highlight a division more serious then ever before.
Drivers in Brooklyn will have to dig a little deeper into their pockets starting Tuesday.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two young teenagers walked into Sterling Electronics this afternoon with the intention of ripping them off, only the sharp eyed store workers spotted them stuffing their pockets with electronics and called Shomrim.
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
After four summers traveling the Midwest, the pair of Roving Rabbis have become accustomed to being mistaken for Amish, or Mennonites, or in the Dakotas, Hutterites.
A conservative synagogue and its senior rabbi touched off a heated discussion after Rabbi Alan Green and Shaarey Zedek introduced a proposal to bring interfaith burials into its cemetery. Local Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Altein along with several other community members with family buried at the cemetery took issue with this proposal, and Rabbi Greens contention that the “time has come to “embrace” intermarriage”.