CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After news of the murder of Mervyn Johnson spread in the community residents grew angry with both the police and the Rabbis who attempted to muzzle vocal disdain towards the police. Much media attention was given to the homicide, which took place on the steps of Beis Rivkah, the largest Jewish girl’s school in the neighborhood.
Writing, said Rabbi Abraham Twerski, is like composing a musical piece. One sits down to compose, and the ideas just come.
And so it was with his newest book, “Gevurah: My Life, Our World, and the Adventure of Reaching 80,” written to mark his 80th birthday, which he celebrated this past October.
SEATTLE — King County met privately with Jewish community leaders Wednesday afternoon over the scheduled posting of ads on Metro buses decrying “Israeli war crimes” against Palestinians, but the ads are still expected to be displayed starting Monday.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – A hospital in Israel has begun using Apple’s iPad to enable medical staff to help treat patients, provide consultations and study X-rays and CT scans from afar.
The Orthodox Union is suing a Pennsylvania-based seafood-importing company, saying it falsely claimed the OU certified its tilapia fish as kosher, highlighting a common problem in the increasingly global kosher marketplace.
United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway holds first annual Popsicle bridge building competition for grades 3-8.
Suspects from Jerusalem and Hadera may have broken into synagogues in Negev villages of Yated, Shuva and Pri Gan.
N. BRUNSWICK, NJ [CHI] — It was a quiet and solemn moment. Each child stood in front of the machine, pressed a button and became a part of something big – the Cheder Tanya.
Full raw footage of the historic meeting between the Rebbe and the late Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel Mordechai Eliyahu was recently posted online.
Yossi Rodin (Ottawa, Canada) and Rochel Bernath (Chicago, IL)
CROWN HEIGHTS {CHI] — A Kingston Avenue store clerk was robbed earlier this afternoon. The incident took place at Celebration on Kingston Avenue near Crown Street, where a 55 year old black man asked for change of a $100 bill and snatched the change from the clerks hand as he was counting it.
In this weeks Halacha and the Parasha – Parashas Shemos – We discuss the issue of doing a mitzvah when in danger.
Nearly 1,000 years ago, a rabbi instituted a revolutionary ban that might have prevented the whole WikiLeaks shake up.
LOS ANGELES — Hate crimes were down in Los Angeles County in 2009 compared with the year before, but such crimes against Jews spiked almost 50%, according to a report released Tuesday.
WASHINGTON [CNN] — The Senate on Wednesday passed a compromise version of a bill to provide free medical treatment to first responders of the September 11 terrorist attack.
WARSAW, Poland [AP] — Vandals threw firecrackers and bricks with swastikas into the home of the Polish head of a group devoted to Jewish remembrance, the man who was target of the attack said Wednesday.
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