Assistant Rabbi Aaron Notik asked University of Florida students walking through Turlington Plaza to stop at a booth. “I can’t right this second,” one student said. “I have to go to class.”
This week, Hebrew schools from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Pasadena, Calif., geared up for the start of a new academic year, implementing curricula designed to instill in students both a solid foundation of Judaic knowledge and a strong sense of Jewish identity.
Food prices could rise next year because an unseasonably hot summer likely damaged much of this year’s corn crop.
For the first time in 60 years, Jewish locals from around the Ukrainian city of Haditch gathered at the community’s historic cemetery to inter one of their own.
There are radiation detection boats in the waters, cameras that have been placed all over lower and Midtown Manhattan and there are cops with guns and tanks and all kinds of weapons, because in New York a terror attack could come from anywhere, and anyone.
Creating ones own shofar sure seemed to be a great start to the new school year for Crown Heights 8th graders, as the students of OTEG and Chayolei Bais Dovid joined forces for a very meaningful and creative shofar Factory.
When Yossi White broke the glass under the Chuppah with is right leg, it was nothing short of a miracle for all his family and friends. The wedding of Yossi White and Sima Purdy, that took place this Sunday at Oholei Torah, was originally planned for March of last year. Yet a quick drive to pick up some pizza one cold Motzei Shabbos in February, a mere six weeks before their scheduled wedding date, quickly derailed those plans.
This was it.
The entire softball season boiled down to this one Sunday morning matchup between the Daily Steals Kloppers and the AWS Skullcaps at Hamilton-Metz Field in Lefferts Park.
A mikvah uncovered during construction will be restored in a museum as the oldest testament to Jewish life in Holland to date.
Once again this Tishrei Congregation Mishkan Menachem is proud to announce that we will be davening all Yom Tov and Shabbos Tefillos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, on Crown St.
Great Chazzan. New tables. New chairs.
Seats are available for $75. EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: $39 until Tes Vav Elul.
Avi Raksin (Crown Heights) and Racheli Rosenwasser (Miami Beach, Florida)
New Yorkers overwhelmingly approve of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to prepare for Hurricane Irene by ordering the evacuation of low-lying areas, according to a poll released Monday.
Gershon Akerman (Crown Heights) and Malka Perelman (Pittsburgh)
Chabad of The Five Towns won the Synagogue League Finals after defeating Beth Sholom 3-0.
Sydney’s The Jewish House has launched its annual drive to collect food for the needy with a record 25 Coles Supermarkets participating across Sydney…and has introduced a new parter, the al-Ghazzali Centre.
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