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Doctors Weigh In as Voters Mull Circumcision Ban

Bay Area medical professionals and clerics have mobilized against attempts by a local anti-circumcision group to enact a citywide ban against the practice. If activists have their way in municipal elections this November, when voters will be asked to vote on the measure, circumcision of a boy under the age of 18 years of age for religious reasons would be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

New ‘Parade Office’ Dedicated in Memory of Nosson Deitsch

Friends and family of Nosson Deitsch OBM gathered this evening to officially dedicate a new parade office, dubbed the Central Operations Suite, which will provide a place for all the volunteers to sit and work on the Lag Baomer Parade.

NYPD’s Relentless Persecution of Shomrim Escalates

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After more than a year of relentless persecution by officers of the 71st Precinct against members of the Crown Heights Shomrim, they have apparently decided that this is still not enough, and have since escalated their efforts, launching a coordinated assault on the volunteer security organization.

Ohel Chana in Melbourne Visited by Special Guests

by Chayale G. and Shoshana L.

We have been privileged recently in our Program, Ohel Chana in Melbourne, to have two senior Shluchim visit our shores and spend an evening farbrenging with us Seminary students. Baruch Hashem we have been greatly inspired by them and look forward to putting all this in practice as we finish our most inspiring and unbelievable year in Ohel Chana!