Rabbi Raphael Kats visited Saskatoon in 2010 as a rabbinical student in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, but he had a feeling that he’d be back, family in tow.
Getting a proclamation from the mayor of the biggest city in the country is a good way to start. Getting extensive print and TV coverage in Philadelphia was a treat. And getting airtime across Virginia was yet another coup.
But for the “Rolling Rabbis”—Dani Saul, Zalman Perlman and Shmuel Rothstein—it’s all par for the course.
KENSIGNTON — More than 200 people crowded the playground behind PS 230 in Kensington Sunday night.
At first glance, the guy in the white polo shirt and khaki pants looks like anybody else walking down Broadway.
Throughout Friday and Shabbos parts of Crown Heights and towns in the Catskill mountains were left without electricity due to high load on the power grid, forcing residents to take refuge in Shuls and be neighbors for Shabbos meals and some air conditioning relief.
Crime is on the verge of going up this year for the first time in nearly two decades—and anxious NYPD brass are cracking down in an effort to keep their historic gains intact.
The triple-digit scorcher that taxed the electrical grid and made life uncomfortable in the tri-state is expected to simmer down somewhat.
Mandy has 321 male friends. His wife, Chaya Mushka, has 321 girlfriends. How many new couples will they be able to match? Well, none.
The New York Daily News reports today that a Brooklyn councilman is proposing “Leiby’s Law,” named in honor of 8-year-old local boy Leiby Kletzky, who was murdered after becoming lost on his seven block route home from day camp, and asking the man indicted in the murder, Levi Aron, for directions.
MIAMI, FL — Sharing his faith on the streets of South Beach with an RV ministry, Rabbi Rev Katz says he is devoted to helping lost Jews find their way back to God.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: In 15 Tammuz, 5720 (July 10, 1960) The Rebbe visits Camp Gan Israel New York. The Rebbe tells the children A Baal Shem Tov story with a fundamental lesson: Don’t convince yourself that you aren’t strong enough. G-d grants the strength to achieve all good things — and if you truly want it, you will succeed.
Shlomo and Chana (nee Testa) Voola (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
Reuven Barukh (Sydney, Australia) and Baila Goldman (Melbourne, Australia)
After a long and tiring but successful day, Eli and I (we are both named Eli) headed to our lodging to retire for the night. After making something quick to eat to fill our starving, food-deprived stomachs, we prayed the afternoon service—a prayer like none I had ever experienced before. The extreme gratitude to G‑d for helping us find and connect with so many of His people had really moved me. But when I got to the Shema Koleinu blessing—where you ask for your own personal request—I was stumped: What could I possibly need? I’m here doing what I love, helping Jews connect with their Judaism.
A Monsey man believed to have left his 2-year-old daughter inside a parked car for two hours during Friday’s record-breaking heat is facing misdemeanor endangerment charges.
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