Neither the threat of rain nor a torn tendon in his left foot could keep Michael Weiss away from the sixth annual Walk4Friendship, a Friendship Circle fundraiser that brought roughly 5,000 walkers to West Bloomfield Sunday afternoon.
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Aside from all the Hip-Hop, Calypso and Reggae this year the parade will feature an addition of some spiritual music, specifically gospel – intended to raise awareness and prevent youth violence. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Laiby Kletzky memorial fund.
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein was honored last week for his years-long dedication in bringing Jewish students to Israel.
An inseparable part of the West Indian-American Day Parade is a nighttime celebration called J’ouvert. It is a night feared and dreaded by the police, both for their own safety and the amount of people who get shot and stabbed throughout the night. This year was no different, with a number of fatalities as well as people shot and stabbed all around the area.
Click here for more information on allegations of anti-Semitism in the lawsuit brought against the town of Postville, Iowa.
Sendy and Rochel Dubrawsky (Radlett, UK)
Shloimy Deren (Pittsburgh, PA) and Mussy Druk (Oak Park, MI)
As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the federal government is warning of a new potential terror threat.
The Chabad of North Orlando held their last summer session of “Ima and Me,” a hands-on class for moms with babies and toddlers that combines nondenominational Jewish learning with cutting edge educational practices, on Aug. 22.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Due to the annual West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day in Crown Heights there will be a slew of driving and parking regulation changes.
Many Shluchim are struggling to fill Hebrew School registration. JabMedia released a short film produced by Mendy Pellin to help break the ice on the subject.
Rabbi Mendel Dubov has been appointed as the new spiritual leader of the Chabad Jewish Center of Sussex County. Rabbi Dubov and his wife Chava Dubov will head all educational, social, charitable and religious services provided by the Jewish Center.
There are probably not many rabbis helping to provide cleaner water in Myanmar (Burma) or first-aid training to wildlife rangers in Kenya.
An incident which can be described as nothing short of a miracle occurred in the Shomron community of Itamar on Tuesday. A synagogue ark containing heavy Torah scrolls fell on a baby and the baby survived.
A great deal has been researched, written and documented concerning the Jews of Russia during the last century of their collective experience, throughout the Soviet era and beyond. Most attention is understandably devoted to the Jewries of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and western regions (known in the Czarist era as the Pale of Settlement). Relatively little is said, however, about Jews living further to the east, in central Siberia. Having just returned from a summer residence in Siberia’s capital, Novosibirsk, the third largest city in Russia, I was surprised to find a vibrant Jewish community center that I was privileged to address, and a new synagogue on the rise. From several members of the community, including the director of the JCC, I was able to piece together their story.
The difference between ice-hockey athletes of today and those of yore, in a word, is helmets.
In the 1970’s, fans would be hankered to find an NHL player wearing a skullcap on the ice, especially if said player was not injured.
