For the first time ever, Israeli officials have upgraded beach facilities at the Dead Sea to cater to the needs of the observant Jewish public. Beginning Monday, men and women who, in keeping with Jewish customs regarding modesty, wish to swim separately can do so in style at “the lowest place on earth.”
In a bold pioneering move, ULY in Crown Heights is making essential changes to its curriculum:
Cycling: Transportation for some, avocation for others, recreation for most.
Zalmy Goldstein (Poway, CA) and Esty Feldman (Sydney, Australia)
L’Chaim Tonight Thursday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
An 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that sweepingly denied Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s appeal has shocked tens of thousands of people monitoring the case, including many in the legal community.
CTeens of Merrick-Bellmore hosted their “Sundown at the Beach” event this Monday at the Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach.
London Rabbi Herschel Gluck, a follower of the Chabad Hassidic sect, does not hide his association with Iran. According to the rabbi, it is the warm relations he has with influential officials in the Islamic republic that enabled him to try and enlist Iran to aid in the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, was a key member of the movement. Yet he gave up position, power and the love of his parents to spy for the Shin Bet, Israel’s intelligence service.
Yoel Hess (Lomita, California) and Vani Shpigelman (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Won’t you come home, Shlomo Carlebach?
Seventeen years after his death and several generations after he split with the Lubavitcher rebbe in the late 1950s, the charismatic — and controversial — leader of New Age Judaism has regained a haven in his native Crown Heights.
Larry Robbins, a real estate developer and board leader of the Erin Mills Development Corporation, recently pledged more than $1 million to Chabad of Mississauga for an endowment fund earmarked for educational programs.
As the Palestinian Authority prepares to present its request for recognition of statehood to the United Nations, a delegation of Israelis led by MK Danny Danon (Likud) arrived on Monday at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shneerson, in Queens, New York, to pray that the PA’s unilateral move is thwarted.
