Genetic engineering is only permissible by Jewish law when it is used to preserve life, and it should not be used in pursuit of specific personality and physical traits, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Chabad’s scholar-in-residence from Harvard University, said during a talk in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s teen division has announced a partnership with a Washington, D.C. based consulting group. The firm will help affiliates engage their local communities and maximize student recruitment.
There was a contentious hearing Tuesday on New York City’s controversial pedestrian plaza program. One city councilman demanded that the Department of Transportation get back to basics and fix basic infrastructure.
Three rabbinical students will bike coast-to-coast this summer to benefit Friendship Circle International.
Within minutes of a news conference at ground zero where authorities preached calm and vigilance after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the alarming 911 call came in.
In honor of Yud Alef Nissan, 50,000 copies of Hebrew version of “The Rebbe – an Appreciation” were distributed across the Holy Land.
City comptroller John C. Liu dined this afternoon in Basil with Elected Vaad Hakohol members Zaki Tamir and Yossi Hackner, who were joined by Chanina Sperlin and Eli Cohen. Mr. Liu reiterated the city’s commitment to Crown Heights, and said that if they ever needed anything to just pick up the phone and call.
Doctors and public health officials have been telling us for years that eating too much sodium can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke by raising blood pressure to unsafe levels. So how to explain a new study that suggests low salt intake actually increases the risk of dying from those causes?
Elimelech Raichik ( Kfar Chabad) and Mushkie Grunblatt ( Buenos Aires, Argentina)
L’Chaim Tomorrow Thursday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Some lawmakers in Albany want a state law to prohibit doctors from wearing neckties in hospitals.
Thousands of participants in the March of the Living marched Monday from the gate of Auschwitz to Birkenau, where a memorial ceremony was held at a monument to the camp’s victims.
Only a few months after settling into the Bellaire community, the newest Orthodox rabbi and resident, Yossi Zaklikofsky and his family have been displaced by a fire in their home.
Yudi Green (Baltimore, MD) and Rickel Greenbaum (Melbourne, Australia)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
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