Almost two hundred women from all over Australia descended upon the Mercure Hotel in the beachside town of Geelong outside Melbourne this past erev Shabbos for the 16th Annual Nshei Chabad convention. There they enjoyed two days of inspiration as well as physical and spiritual regeneration.
As New York City approaches the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, the family of Yankel Rosenbaum is unhappy that Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in a panel discussion about the state of black and Jewish relations.
On a corner of Kingston Avenue, along the row of stores that serves as the center of what is colloquially known as “the Jewish side” of Crown Heights, a young chasidic woman with a sheitel atop her head banters with a middle-aged black man wearing a wool stocking cap.
Senior Religious rabbis have stated that some alternative medicine methods are “based on idolatry”.
Twenty years after the Crown Heights Riots, community leaders and activists in the diverse Brooklyn neighborhood are quick to emphasize that community relations are significantly better than in 1991, when three days of riots shook the neighborhood.
An Israeli attorney on vacation with his family in Zambia is missing after a hippopotamus attacked and flipped the boat he was riding in with his children.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
She is survived by her husband Tzvi, and children Rabbi Elimelech (West Hartford, CT), Boruch (Baltimore, MD), and Yitzchok (Crown Heights).
August marks the 20th anniversary of the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history: a three-day nightmare that historians and journalists call the “Crown Heights riots” and that many members of the Jewish community have called a “pogrom.”
Zalmy Kass (Toronto, Ontario) and Rivkah Mizrachi (Brooklyn, NY)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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A Chabad rabbi kidnapped by a gang in Ecuador and then released has arrived in Israel with his wife and children. “We said Psalms for his safe return”, said his family.
The record-flooding that struck New York City last weekend left a trail of water damage throughout the state in its wake, inundating at least one Jewish institution in Long Island.
Children played, whiskey flowed and kosher hot dogs seared as dozens celebrated one of the most sacred events in the Jewish community Sunday afternoon.
After young Leiby Kletzky was allegedly abducted and brutally killed in Brooklyn last month, some area businesses are joining forces with the district attorney’s office for the “Safe Stop” program, which aims to help children and senior citizens in need.
Rabbi Yaacov Gaissinovitch, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, doctor and mohel who sometimes performs up to five circumcisions in a single day, presided over his 4,500th circumcision last week, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk announced in a statement.
Early in the 1990s — so many years ago that it’s nowhere to be found online — I was on a panel about black anti-Semitism at New York’s 92nd Street Y, where the historian of slavery Eugene Genovese observed that if a black demagogue called Italian Americans “racists,” they’d come after him with baseball bats, but if he called Jews “racists,” they’d hold a few conferences at the 92nd Street Y.
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