The Mormon Church has condemned the recent posthumous baptism of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose diary of hiding from the Nazis has provided generations with a first-hand account of life during the Holocaust.
Rabbi Yeshaya Hertzel of Natzeret Ilit and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Rosenblatt of the lower Galil Region met Rabbi Aaron Teitlebaum of Satmar (Kiryas Yoel) during his visit to the North of Eretz Yisroel. Rabbi Teitlebaum mentioned his yichus as a descendant of the Alter Rebbe and Mitteler Rebbe.
Hunterdon County, NJ [CHI] — What do the first recipient of the Chabad Hunterdon County Scholarship fund, the wife of a chemistry professor, and the designer of this years’ MyChabadAuction.com website have in common? In the case of Liorah Abrams, they’re all the same person.
Dovid Losh (Crown Heights) and Miriam Goldshmid (Crown Heights)
A rabbi suspected of offering financial incentives to soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate West Bank outposts heads the nonprofit association behind the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem.
Monday night, Beis Rivka High School students put on one last wonderful performance of their famous production, enthralling a full audience at the Wingate auditorium in the outskirts of Crown Heights. This year’s theme was Voice of Eternity, describing the physical and spiritual challenges of newly arrived Jewish immigrants to the shores of America in the early 20th century.
A lawsuit by a Jewish group claiming town officials discriminated against it in Nazi-style fashion for denying plans to greatly expand a historic building for use as a synagogue and community center has been dismissed in U.S. District Court.
A group of Jews visiting Kivrei Tzadikim in Morocco were surprised to find what appears to be a full size replica of the Beis Hamikdosh in Ouarzazate, a desert town about 100 miles east of Merrakech.
Photographer Meir Alfasi recently set sail to Antarctica, where he printed a Tanya in memory of Shluchim Gabi and Rivkie Holtzberg. We present this breathtaking photo gallery of his trip.
Crown Heights [CHI] — A four-alarm blaze broke out in a one-story commercial building that houses a kosher sushi distributor on Utica Ave. Monday morning, sending nine city firefighters to the hospital.
Is T.M. and yoga the Path to enlightenment? Or a rocky road to idol worship? CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a letter to Doctor Yehuda Landes, wanting to open a holistic center for fellow Jews, where the Rebbe’s response reveals remarkable insight – not only as to the need for proper guidance, but the use of “alternate therapies” within a Torah framework.
Its been almost six years since Avraham Fried released Bein Kach U’Bein Kach, and the time has finally come for the next album. Ladies and gentlemen the wait is over. Avremel’s new album is titled Keep Climbing.
Yanky Levy (London, UK) and Ita Nussbaum (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Levi and Chaya Fraida (nee Lanada) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Cheder at the Ohel students had the pleasure to be one of only three children’s groups ever to tour Jewish Educational Media! Director of JEM, Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin who has two sons leaning at Cheder at the Ohel, was the tour guide. The students were truly fascinated by all the media equipment.
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