A new guidance letter issued by United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) explicitly warns federally assisted schools that they will face punitive actions if they fail to respond to hostile environments that target students because they are Jewish, Muslim or Sikh.
Dovid and Chaya (nee Gopin) Margolin (Crown Heights)
SECAUCUS, NJ [CHI] — Despite the recession economy, thousands packed the Medowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ for the annual Kosherfest, with hundreds of companies from food makers to distributors with insurance and credit card processing all in the mix touting their wares.
University of Illinois Men’s basketball team with couch Bruce Weber hosted the 4th Annual Alley-oop for autism a Philanthropy project by the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity in partnership with the Chabad Center for Jewish life in support of the The Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle of Illinois.
FT. COLLINS, CO — On Friday, Jewish and non-Jewish students gathered in the Lory Student Center’s West Ballroom to celebrate what many felt was the largest family dinner in Fort Collins.
Rabbi David Masinter director of Chabad activities at Chabad House in Johannesburg South Africa putting on Tefillin with Jordan Belfort. Belfort is known as the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ after his two bestselling novels which he authored after being released from a 22 month stint in prison.
Nearly a thousand people crowded into the event hall of the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem on Tuesday night for the memorial service marking twenty years since Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated, on November 5, 1990.
Thirty community Rabbis, representing a large portion of the Florida orthodox spectrum gathered today for a discussion of issues and an exchange of ideas in Ft. Lauderdale with Florida United States Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio.
SWAMPSCOTT, MA — This past Sunday, more than 30 North Shore teens joined the North of Boston Jew Crew for the first installment of Israel 3D, a six-week course teaching students about the major issues surrounding the land of Israel.
This past weekend over one hundred people celebrated the first culmination of a two year advanced study program at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ.
Yehuda and Miriam Schechter (Spring Valley, NY)
This week, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute fall semester will open in over three hundred locations worldwide educating more then fourteen thousand students.
The city’s murder rate has shot up nearly 15% this year, and residents in the worst-hit precincts are worried New York is headed back to darker days.
The New York Police Department plans to step up enforcement of bicycle safety in parts of the city that have seen a disproportionately higher rate of collisions involving bicyclists, city officials said Thursday.
Mordechai Ben David sings Yerushalayim is Not For Sale in November 1986 at Brooklyn College.
