Close to 100,000 Orthodox Jews sang, danced and prayed inside what is billed as the world’s largest synagogue — at least for a night. MetLife Stadium was transformed Wednesday for a celebration of the completion of the reading of the Talmud, the book of Jewish laws and traditions.
Levi Gurevitch (Lyon, France) and Mushka Matusof (Cannes, France)
Hillel and Risa (nee Freeman) Gruber (Welwyn Garden City, UK)
For the second time in a month, evidence has surfaced about a case of neonatal herpes that shatters a myth about metzitzah b’peh (MBP) that the New York City Department of Health (DOH) is bent on propagating.
Levi (ben Sholom) Gurewitz (Lyon, France) and Mushka Matusof (Cannes, France)
Shlame and Miriam (nee Brook) Landa (Fairfield, CT)
It’s one thing to feel holiness when you enter a synagogue on Shabbat or a holy day. You go in expecting holiness. You expect that the rabbi’s sermon will inspire you; that you will have a spiritual experience and connect with God.
Last night after the campers had fallen fast asleep, the staff and counselors of Gan Israel Parksville made their way down to the camp square. What awaited them was a beautifully arranged BBQ!
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Sara Slavin saw a real need in Mississauga for a Jewish summer day camp. The city’s Jewish population isn’t huge but the closest summer camps for Jewish children are in Hamilton and Toronto.
The Lubavitcher Rabbi’s Memoirs are a veritable treasure chest of Chasidic learning and lore, of anecdotes, historical annotations and commemorations, and represent the very best of informal writing from the prolific pen of the sixth leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of blessed memory and are now back in print and available from Kehot Publication Society.
The Brooklyn Butcher will likely die in prison in a plea deal that’s been agreed to by all sides, the Daily News has learned.
The Jewish world today celebrates the completion of learning Shas after seven and a half years of learning one page a day, with central celebrations held in all major Jewish communities around the world, especially in Eretz Yisroel and in America – the main event will be tonight in the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. This morning, for the first time in [Lubavitch inhabited] Crown Heights, Congregation Anash 770 Montgomery St. held a Daf Yomi siyum as well.
Believe it or not, at one time, Rabbi Daniel Bortz, a 20-something, energetic, newly ordained Chabad rabbi, wasn’t so Jewishly observant.
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