Saturday night, just after Shabbos ended, I found out that Amy Winehouse was dead at 27. My first reaction was to do what I, as a Jew, do whenever I hear such news. I said the Hebew prayer Baruch Dayan Emet — Blessed is the True Judge. My next reaction was to feel angry and sick. And that’s what I can’t figure out.
As the sweltering heat abated ever so slightly and even go way to a brief thundershower to cool the sun-beaten earth, parents flocked to Morristown to visit their sons in YSP. Uncles, aunts, mothers and fathers came to see first hand the living pudding which is YSP Morristown.
Meir Amber (Houston ,TX) AND Chany Lipsker (Israel)
Chabad of Beer Sheva has a new, four story home. Dedicated earlier this month, the interior, tiled in desert palette of neutrals, fitted with fixtures that would be at home in a Vegas hotel, is the the fulfillment of a twelve-year fundraising campaign. Judging by the crowds flocking to it on a recent Wednesday, the effort is paying off.
The brutal murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky continues to break New York’s heart. Shocking details of his death have brought home the fears of many parents about raising kids in the city. The Daily News convened a group of readers with young children and grandchildren to explore the impact of the tragedy:
Rabbi Raphael Kats visited Saskatoon in 2010 as a rabbinical student in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, but he had a feeling that he’d be back, family in tow.
Getting a proclamation from the mayor of the biggest city in the country is a good way to start. Getting extensive print and TV coverage in Philadelphia was a treat. And getting airtime across Virginia was yet another coup.
But for the “Rolling Rabbis”—Dani Saul, Zalman Perlman and Shmuel Rothstein—it’s all par for the course.
KENSIGNTON — More than 200 people crowded the playground behind PS 230 in Kensington Sunday night.
At first glance, the guy in the white polo shirt and khaki pants looks like anybody else walking down Broadway.
Throughout Friday and Shabbos parts of Crown Heights and towns in the Catskill mountains were left without electricity due to high load on the power grid, forcing residents to take refuge in Shuls and be neighbors for Shabbos meals and some air conditioning relief.
Crime is on the verge of going up this year for the first time in nearly two decades—and anxious NYPD brass are cracking down in an effort to keep their historic gains intact.
The triple-digit scorcher that taxed the electrical grid and made life uncomfortable in the tri-state is expected to simmer down somewhat.
Mandy has 321 male friends. His wife, Chaya Mushka, has 321 girlfriends. How many new couples will they be able to match? Well, none.
The New York Daily News reports today that a Brooklyn councilman is proposing “Leiby’s Law,” named in honor of 8-year-old local boy Leiby Kletzky, who was murdered after becoming lost on his seven block route home from day camp, and asking the man indicted in the murder, Levi Aron, for directions.
MIAMI, FL — Sharing his faith on the streets of South Beach with an RV ministry, Rabbi Rev Katz says he is devoted to helping lost Jews find their way back to God.
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