n this weeks Halacha and the Parasha – Parashas Beshalach – We discuss the matter of showing respect to Malchus.
An 8-year-old boy in Oklahoma has been rescued after getting his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it as part of a dare.
EDWARDS, CO — Maia Fishman and Brielle Quigley, both 7 years old, placed their tiny delicate hands on the same kind of feather quill Moses used and helped inscribe a few letters in a new Torah — letters and life lessons that will outlive their children’s children’s children.
CHINA — When Devorah Freundlich, 13, of Beijing, China, is not busy with her schoolwork, she’s popping cakes out of the oven in her mom’s kitchen. They are custom cakes—dolls, police trucks, snowmobiles—and the young entrepreneur is working creatively to please her delighted customers. But in less than two weeks, she’ll close shop. That’s when she hopes she’ll have reached her goal: to raise $5000.
As thousands of Brisbane residents pack up and evacuate in the face of waters from Australia’s worst flood in three decades barreling down on the Queensland state capital, Jewish leaders in the coastal city are cautiously optimistic that their historic synagogue might be spared.
Just after the “Blizzard of 2010” United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean P’kwy held its 6th annual winter Ski camp! On the cold morning spirits were high as talmidim awaited the 7:15am ULYOP/ Hamasifta bus. The heated bus climbed it’s way over and through unplowed streets making it’s way to our home away from home the841 Ocean P’kwy. After an inspirational/ uplifting davening, day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the van was loaded.
This morning NY’ers woke to a foot of snow on the ground, and properly plowed streets.
Nanny Sandra Samuel, who saved baby Moshe from terrorists during the 26/11 attacks, was granted Israeli citizenship in July last year. But her 24-year-old associate, Qazi Zakir Hussain, who helped her rescue Moshe, has been left high and dry, with no recognition and more importantly, no job.
Three prominent educators in the Crown Heights community wrote an elaborate letter to the Beis Din demanding transparency in all issues relating to the psak.
Rabbis Yoel Kahan, Berel Levin, and Avrohom Gerlitzky asked in their letter to the Beis Din that since many of the issues in the recent Psak were in fact only justifying previous decisions already made, the only solution would be that this decision be submitted to a neutral Rabinic body, and they should look into the matter, and give an impartial ruling that will leave no doubt in its transparency to the entire community.
Jewish leaders Tuesday began talking to Williamsburg public school students after a rash of hate crimes in the neighborhood targeting Hasidic residents.
These words share a common language that is synonymous with Chabad on Campus. Now a new word is about to join them, jLearn.
The federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars” by improperly approving 24-hour home care for thousands of patients.
Within minutes of the snow beginning to fall this evening, everything turned white. This storm is expected to dump over 16 inches of snow in parts of New York, while Brooklyn will see accumulations of up to 8 inches with the height of storm being between 1:00am and 7:00am.
There are special protocols that must be adhere to during a weather emergency, these protocols will enable emergency assistance to reach those who need it, and help keep the vital components of the city available in case of an emergency.
An unmarked police prison transport van was involved in an accident late Tuesday afternoon. The accident occurred on Eastern Parkway and New York Avenue where the transport van struck a sedan, spinning it around leaving it facing the opposite direction.
NEW YORK [WABC] — Mayor Bloomberg has declared a weather emergency ahead of the winter storm that is expected to dump significant snow on New York City.
ISRAEL — One of its kind Chabad house opens in Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood: Bar with concerts, drinks and food that also serves as religious center. ‘We hope we can show people they can receive substance and content from Judaism,’ says co-owner Rabbi Crombie.
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