The New York Islanders are stuck with the aging Nassau Coliseum after voters rejected a plan this week that would have revamped the arena.
Rabbi Moshe Weiss spent much of Monday and Tuesday packing boxes with his colleagues, emptying the old Baptist church that the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities has called home since it swung open its doors as the area’s first school of its kind in 2006.
Levi Aron, charged with first degree murder in the death of Leiby Kletzky, has pleaded not guilty.
Healthy centenarians lucky enough to have inherited “longevity genes” can thank their genetic makeup for their long lives. Unlike everybody else, they didn’t have to watch their diet, exercise daily or avoid alcohol to reach that age. They didn’t even have to stop smoking – although tobacco use would certainly harm their descendants.
Watch this brilliant clip to learn what real faith is all about. It’s not blind belief and acceptance of information or values. Rabbi Dr. J. Immanuel Schochet illuminates the fundamental connection between faith and knowledge. True faith that is rooted in knowledge is exhibited in a person who synthesizes information and allows the logical consequences of this reality to have an affect on the way he or she lives.
One of the things I’ve found most refreshing about religious culture is the understanding of the importance of modesty. Though each woman may have different ideas about exactly what it means to be modest, there is a general agreement that putting forth some level of conscious effort to avoid looking like a backup dancer in a Snoop Dogg video is a good thing. And it’s fascinating to see the effect that it has on women’s interactions with one another.
Yisroel Meir and Bassie (nee Butman) Munitz (Buffalo, NY)
Nochum and Chana Brocha Weisfish (Crown Heights)
First of all, I would like to genuinely thank all the staff that have helped my son grow tremendously in Gashmiyos and especially in Ruchniyos over the first part of the summer. My son has really gained a lot and has noticably excelled and matured of the short four weeks he spent at camp. There is one thing however I would like to address:
Israelis visiting and living in the fastest growing section of Berlin now have a synagogue to call their own. Since its doors officially opened last month, the new Chabad-Lubavitch Israeli Center has attracted more than 100 locals and tourists to Sabbath services and affiliated programs.
Over the coming year, 20 new Chabad-Lubavitch emissary families will take up residence in former Soviet countries, a committee of leaders announced in a dispatch from the annual conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to the former Soviet Union.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Traditionally, the first Tuesday of August is known as the National Night out against Crime, a night where residents come out of their homes and together with police ‘take back the streets’ from crime. This year it wasn’t so in 71st Precinct where a man was shot dead on Carroll Street and a Jew was attacked on Crown Street.
The United Jewish Community of Ukraine bestowed its “International Award” on Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven Margolin of the National Scribal Center in Dnepropetrovsk in recognition for his work on restoring two centuries-old Torah scrolls and saving them from an almost certain burial.
One day before the Tmimim of Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva Ketana in Kiryat Gat leave for Bein Hazmanim, the tranquil city was shaken by a barrage of Grad rockets shot from Gaza. B”H there were no reports of injuries or damages to property.
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A Washington state appellate court ruled against an animal protection group’s bid to strike down as unconstitutional a law protecting religious slaughter.
On a bright beautiful Sunday, July 24 the Crown Heights Softball All Stars met the Canadian Softball All Stars in Syracuse, NY to have their annual softball tournament. Canada dominated the New York team in the first game, winning 12 – 0, and swept New York in the following two.
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