Attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin filed their appeal brief with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, Monday evening, January 3, 2011.
We are pleased to present our thirty-first online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Saudi Arabian security forces have captured a vulture that was carrying a global positioning satellite (GPS) transmitter and a ring etched with the words “Tel Aviv University.” They suspect the bird of spying for Israel, Maariv-NRG reported Tuesday. The GPS and ring were connected to the bird as part of an long-term project by Israeli scientists that follows vultures’ location and altitude for research purposes.
His car was gone in less than 60 seconds. In fact, a young Brooklyn man’s 2005 Nissan Maxima disappeared instantly after he stepped out of the driver’s seat to let a prospective “buyer” take it for a spin.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano arrived Monday in Israel on a multi-city tour to assess security measures for U.S.-bound flights.
A prominent Israeli rabbi has issued a religious decree forbidding Jewish women from driving or learning to drive unless absolutely necessary.
Until the early 1960’s, Yale University employed a quota restricting Jewish enrollment to about ten percent. Jewish students were barred from joining fraternities, marginalized in organizations and forced to hide their identities in order to gain acceptance in academic circles.
Chaim Avraham Dayan (S. Paulo, Brazil) and Shoshana Abutbul (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff (Houston, TX)
NEW YORK [AP] — New York City saw a double-digit increase in murders during 2010, though overall crime was down 2 percent from last year. That’s according to preliminary figures from the New York City Police Department.
The family of legendary Mashpia Rabbi Volf Greenglass OBM has sent CrownHeights.info parts of his will that he requested be made public.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Kvutzeh Bochur was struck and injured crossing Eastern Parkway this evening, Tuesday. The incident happened on the main roadway, about 150 feet from the Kingston crosswalk, where a car traveling in the turning lane hit the Bochur.
BREAKING NEWS: A controversial ruling has just been released over the fate of Rabbi Yosef Braun, who was elected to the Crown Heights Bais Din, and is center of much controversy.
Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the early release of a unique study edition of first 12 chapters of Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad Chasidic philosophy, authored by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad movement.
Representatives of campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch centers throughout the United Kingdom gathered for their fourth-annual conference, reflecting on the rapid growth in the number of campuses represented and deriving strategies for further strengthening Jewish life on campus and dealing with the challenge of an upsurge in anti-Semitism at some universities.
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