WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans living in poverty jumped to 14.3 per cent in 2009, with the ranks of working-age poor reaching the highest since at least 1965.
As Jews throughout the world head to synagogue this weekend to spend the holiest day of their calendar immersed in prayer and fasting, the often overlooked population of Jewish prisoners will likewise participate in services of their own.
PHILADELPHIA, PA — On a recent summer day, Rabbi Shloime Isaacson received an urgent call: A 98-year-woman was having difficulty breathing.
The brother of murdered Australian Yankel Rosenbaum has expressed no surprise that his killer is lying in a coma after being stabbed in the head with an ice pick.
With Shabbos Parshas Ki Seitzei on the horizon, dozens of Shluchim from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin gathered at Lubavitch House in Milwaukee, WI for the Midwest Kinnus HaShluchim Ha’ezori 5770. Upon arrival, one was met with a sense of warmth — a warm drink and refreshments, a hot Erev Shabbos mikvah, incredibly hospitable accommodations, a whole-hearted embrace from fellow Shluchim, and a cheerful smile from the host Shliach, Rabbi Yisroel Shmotkin.
A homeowner in Brooklyn shot and seriously wounded a would-be burglar early this morning, police said.
Many people performed the tradition of Kapores today, taking advantage of the special pricing. Most perform Kapores on the night before Yom Kippur.
Levi Altein (Crown Heights) and Chaya Ledaew (Crown Heights)
ABC News recently Featured Matisyahu on their Beliefs program, where he spoke about Religion, Chabad and what inspires his music.
Hundreds of guests – Bochurim – coming to Crown Heights from around the world for the month of Tishrei were set up with accommodations they could have only dreamed of in the past. This year Yeshivos joined with the Vaad Talmidai Hatmimim, and arranged proper accommodations around the neighborhood for the Bochurim, as well as a meaningful curriculum for their time here.
NEW YORK — The Chabad House Serving NYU, a Jewish organization on campus, is expanding. The group recently purchased two floors at 52 E. Fourth Street.
CHISINAU, Moldova — Moldova’s interim president and the leader of the country’s Jews on Wednesday condemned Nazi graffiti scrawled on synagogue walls in the capital.
This Erev Rosh Hashanah, tens of thousands of Jews globally were the proud recipients of a unique electronic Shana Tova Card created by acclaimed filmmaker, Michael Kigel. The card featured greetings and well wishes for the coming year from a diverse spectrum of over 30 Rabbis, politicians, public leaders and noted lecturers.
Yossi Friedman (Kfar Chabad) and Chaya Zalmanov (Tzfat)
Levi Lesches (Monsey, NY) and Malka Fishman (Los Angeles, CA)
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It’s getting less kosher to wave a chicken over your head to take away your sins.
A Brooklyn man said the ASPCA all but forced him to stop the controversial tradition at his feather-strewn business yesterday.
New regulations allowing the cars of red-light scofflaws to be towed have resulted in more than 1,100 vehicles being hooked on the first day — more than double the daily average, The Post has learned.
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