Moshiach101.com is launching a weekly lecture series which will tackle one of the most mystifying, controversial and central topics in Jewish life: Moshiach (the Messiah).
It’s not every day residents on Chicago’s South Side see two men in Orthodox Jewish garb walking the streets. But they might see them every day for the rest of the month.
LONDON, England [CHI] — As the school year in London came to an end the annual prize giving to the boys was a great way to end the year. The highlight of the event was the giving out of seforim for the Mishnayos Baal Peh that was learned by the boys during their recent project.
Camp GIGA has successfully completed its second year of providing Jewish German teenage boys with a thrilling inspirational experience in America.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two ConEd workers were injured this morning in an incident that can only be chalked up to unsafe work practice, at the fault of the workers themselves.
New York City set a record for rainfall on Sunday. By 5 p.m., 7.6 inches had fallen at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens — the most ever recorded there in a single day. The National Weather Service said the driving rain broke the previous record of 6.3 inches, set in 1983.
We were in Bar, Montenegro. The meeting started like any other. Jasa invited us in, and we spoke for over an hour.
“So how about we put on tefillin?” I asked. He gladly accepted.
Leiby Kletzky’s dad says that a new memorial song about his slain son is helping him cope with the boy’s horrifying death.
SULLIVAN COUNTY [CHI] — A minivan traveling west-bound on New York Route 17 near exit 113 suddenly burst into flames Sunday afternoon.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, August 15 for holiday observance. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Twenty years after the riots, Crown Heights has become a mixed race mecca.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe“: The Talmud states in Masectas Taanis: ”Never were there more joyous days for the Jewish People than the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur.” What is it about the energy of the 15th of Av that attracts so much joy? A sicha from 15 Menachem Av, 5743 · July 25, 1983.
A preacher whose past rhetoric against Muslims has roiled anti-Western sentiment and set off protests overseas says he’ll hold a rally in New York City before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In the 1890s, Russian Jews fleeing anti-Semitic violence and discrimination arrived by the thousands to a remote corner of the Argentine Pampas. They founded hamlets similar to the shtetls they left behind. They spoke Yiddish, built synagogues and traditional Jewish schools — and became farmers and gauchos, the mythical Argentine cowboys.
A station wagon driven by Yosef Lifsh, hit another car and careened onto the sidewalk at 8:21 p.m. Monday, August 19, 1991.
Twenty years after riots erupted between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights, newcomers — including hipsters, Latinos and Asians — are calming old racial divisions.
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him/her to hold in higher esteem those who think alike then those who think differently.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Chaos, anarchy and bloodshed have engulfed London; it’s one of the worst outbreaks of violence that London has seen in a very long time. The riots are not happening in the slums or poor sections of the city, rather in upper and middle class neighborhoods. Who are these rioters? Young teens, college kids and young adults. Many of them are gang members and troubled teens who are looking to lash out against a society that has promised them so much, yet in the end has left them with nothing.
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