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Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, center, confers an ordination certificate on one of six graduating rabbis from Berlin’s Yeshiva Gedola.
Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, joined by rabbis from across Germany, Israel and the United States, presided over the ordination of the latest class of rabbis to graduate in Berlin.
Graduating Class Offers Further Examples of Berlin’s Jewish Growth
Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, center, confers an ordination certificate on one of six graduating rabbis from Berlin’s Yeshiva Gedola.
Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, joined by rabbis from across Germany, Israel and the United States, presided over the ordination of the latest class of rabbis to graduate in Berlin.
University Studies Chassidic Women’s Fashion
Jewish Chronicle
They may not often grace the pages of Vogue, but strictly Orthodox women regularly reinterpret celebrity and catwalk fashion – with a modest twist, according to research by the London College of Fashion.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A robbery on a subway platform had police hold up a train in the Kingston Avenue Station Monday afternoon.
Robbery Prompts Subway Shutdown
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A robbery on a subway platform had police hold up a train in the Kingston Avenue Station Monday afternoon.
World Bulletin
The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country's Muslim and Jewish minorities.
War on Shchita Continues: Dutch Parliament Bans
World Bulletin
The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Mordechai Schapiro OBM of Crown Heights at the age of 35.
He is survived by his wife Leah and four children Mussie, Mendel, Rivka and Basya, as well as his parents Rabbi Gavriel and Malya Rochel Schapiro.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mordechai Schapiro OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Mordechai Schapiro OBM of Crown Heights at the age of 35.
He is survived by his wife Leah and four children Mussie, Mendel, Rivka and Basya, as well as his parents Rabbi Gavriel and Malya Rochel Schapiro.
Corn Declared NY State Vegetable, Except it Isn’t One!
Brooklyn Paper
State senators may need to name themselves the official state vegetable! In the worst redefinition of the word “vegetable” since the Reagan Administration briefly suggested that ketchup was one, the Senate voted last week to name corn the state vegetable – even though corn is a grain.
10th Annual Chag HaSmicha in Los Angeles
This past week saw the 10th annual Chag HaSmicha for the new rabbis of Kollel Tiferet Menachem – Los Angeles at Moshe Ganz hall B”H.
NM Communities Open Doors to Los Alamos Evacuees
by Mindy Rubenstein – Chabad.org
Smoke from the Los Alamos wildfire blocks the sun 40 miles outside of Santa Fe, NM.
Rivka Goldman couldn’t sleep last night, the putrid smell of smoke seeping into her house in Los Alamos, where a raging wildfire that in the space of a day has consumed more than 44,000 acres led authorities to order the evacuation of the New Mexico town. Goldman and her husband packed up and boarded a plane for Chicago today to visit their daughter.
Cheder Menachem’s Tzivos Hashem Expo
Recently, Anash of Los Angeles, CA gathered at Cheder Menachem, the Chabad Elementary boy’s school for their 7th annual Chayolei Tzivos Hashem Grand Expo.
3 Shluchim Drive Torah Studies Major Overhaul
Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman puts down the phone, leans across his desk in Peabody, Massachusetts, and smiles. “The Alter Rebbe said men darf lebben mit der tzeit. I think we’re taking that from catchphrase to reality.”
The first of the boy camp busses rolled out of Crown Heights Monday Night. CGI Montreal campers drive all night from Brooklyn to the camp in Montreal; kicking off the summer camp months!
Video: CGI Montreal Heads to Camp!
The first of the boy camp busses rolled out of Crown Heights Monday Night. CGI Montreal campers drive all night from Brooklyn to the camp in Montreal; kicking off the summer camp months!
Baby Boy!
Shua and Estee (nee Shapiro) Lurie (Montreal, Canada)
Baby Boy!
Moishe and Rochie Liberow (Monsey, NY)
New Engagement!
Michoel Rose (Manchester, UK) and Aidele Shkedi (Scranton, PA)
New Engagement!
Yanky Borenstein (Crown Heights) and Ahuva Rivkin (Crown Heights)
Talking Judaism in the European Parliament
Jerusalem Post
Rabbinical Centre of Europe Meets with the President of Albania.
The European Parliament hosted a somewhat different group of men in suits last week, when over 100 European rabbis attended discussions under the banner “Is Multiculturalism Sustainable in 21st-Century Europe?” The talks were part of a two-day conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), an organization representing over 700 European rabbis. In attendance were also Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Religious Affairs Minister Ya’acov Margi.
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