With buzz words like “sustainablitiy,” “going green” and “organic lifestyle” becoming part of our everyday language, we are forced to ask the question: Do environmental awareness and Judaism go hand in hand or do they conflict in their basic precepts?
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Black man robbed a Black woman, and was apprehended by a police officer who chased him for over 10 blocks.
NEW YORK [AP] — A suspicious white envelope delivered to the New York offices of Israeli Bank Hapoalim in Manhattan on Wednesday turned out to be an electronic greeting card from a job recruiting firm, police said.
A Brooklyn developer got a slap on the wrist Tuesday for masterminding a massive fraudulent mortgage scheme that left dozens of Lubavitcher residents in fear of losing their condo apartments.
RICHMOND — While a rabbi prayed in a Richmond synagogue, a group of Orthodox Jews passed around an AK-47 before a ceremony celebrating the end of the Sabbath.
Yisroel Schulman meeting with newly elected Rockland State Senator David Carlucci in Albany.
On Monday, the My Encounter with the Rebbe interview team arrived in Montreal and has already captured the testimony of 5 individuals. The rigorous interview schedule includes 25 interviews to be conducted by two experienced interviewers over a 10-day period.
AJN TV’s Gareth Narunsky reports that Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen, run by Rabbi Dovid Slavin of Chabad of NSW, launched a major baking initiative to help relieve the victims’ dire situation.
Amid a firestorm of allegations, Zaki Tamir closed his personal blog with which he gave unfiltered updates to the community.
In honor of Yud Shvat we are proud to present another clip of the documentary. In this clip you will see part of an interview with Mr. Arnold Dalfen where he describes his first visit to the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson.
It’s 6:00 on a Tuesday evening in a small town in Texas. Nine year old Shmuly waits eagerly by the phone, as he has every week for the past year. Thousands of miles away, Yossi finds a quiet spot in his yeshiva and dials. The phone rings. Shmuly opens a sicha.
On Thursday, January 20, 2010 there will be a rally in honor of Tu Bishvat at the Ohel. Buses leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm.
Tzipporah Juarez, a Tunisian expat living in New York, is nervously following the news coming from Tunis. Desperate to know what is going on as it happens, she depends on Twitter, itself considered a catalyst in ending the 23 year career of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s autocratic rule.
Yehuda Piamenta, father of Yossi and Avi Piamenta, the known musicians, passed away today in Israel at the age of 84.
Zalmy and Shaina (nee Witkes) Greenfeld (Worcester, Mass)
Chassidim are one family. Most of us are aware of this quote from HaYom Yom, but this Monday, the pisgam came to life as over 75 Tzerei HaShluchim joined in the 3rd annual Kinus HaChadorim, in the Chabad Center of Newtown PA.
