Raphael Nouril painted the Shah of Iran, the Prince, Henry Kissinger and actress Susan Colins. But when he wanted to paint the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, whom he never met, he changed his life first.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Elchanan Birnbaum (Crown Heights) and Mimi Chelim (Gothenburg, Sweden) on their engagement.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — Defense attorneys painted an unappealing picture of anti-Semitism for U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade Monday during a hearing to determine if charges against a former Agriprocessors executive should be dropped, or the case moved to a different court or heard separately from others indicted in the aftermath of a massive 2008 immigration raid.
KHERSON, Ukraine — City council member Sergey Kirichenko’s bid to replace Kherson’s Jewish mayor has turned into a wild anti-Semitic incitement campaign, blaming Jews for the country’s economic downturn and accusing them of plotting genocide.
According to Kherson’s Chief Rabbi and Chabad director, Yosef Wolff, the incitement has been building over the last few months and represents the latest development in a five year political war against Mayor Vladimir Vasilevitch Saldah.
NEW DELHI, India — The tapes, which were broadcast on an Indian television news channel, relay a conversation between one of the controllers in Pakistan and a female Jewish hostage in which he reassured her despite having already decided to have her killed.
A caller from Pakistan called Wasi spoke to Nurma Shvarzblat Rabinovich, 50, and asked her to call the Israeli consulate in Mumbai to set up negotiations with a senior diplomat.
The following is very biased, one sided article, attacking a Chabad Shliach. It has been translated from the Israeli daily Maariv newspaper by Ezra Reichman for VIN News.
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The Jewish community in Vilna refuses to allow the local Chabad rabbi to enter the main shul, even though the rabbi has to say Kaddish and has no other minyan where he can say it.
KATZRIN, Israel — Holocaust survivors from Holland and Israel, many with tears in their eyes, joined residents in the Golan Heights city of Katzrin to dedicate a Torah scroll in memory of a fellow survivor who, because of the horrors inflicted on her in a Nazi concentration camp, died childless.
NEW YORK, NY — The MTA will cut weekend subway service even if it gets a state bailout, officials said Monday.
And, for the first time in six years, the number of weekday riders dropped 2% in January, suggesting job losses have begun to thin the throngs of straphangers riding the rails.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Wednesday, February 25 for holiday observances. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Click here for the 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
The issue: Congregation Shomrei Habrith synagogue has become the Chabad Center of Berks County.
Our opinion: The change opens a new chapter in Jewish life in our area.
READING, PA — Something familiar has disappeared from the religious landscape – but not completely.
BROOKYN, NY — The waxing and waning of the moon is regularly celebrated in Jewish life. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle, familiar to Jewish children even as preschoolers who learn to welcome the new moon with regular Rosh Chodesh celebrations. In a popular depiction by Jewish painters, a minyan of men stand outside the shtetl shul and bless the new moon under a dark sky.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Boruch and Hadassah (nee Turenheim) Rapoport (Crown Heights) on the birth of their two daughters and a son.
May the newborns be a great source of Nachas to their parents, grandparents Klal Yisroel.
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HOLLAND — Twenty-two years after Holland’s last chief rabbi Eliezer Berlinger passed away, the country’s Jewish public is finally getting a new spiritual leader. Representatives of Holland’s Jewish communities assembled last week and picked Rabbi Binyamin Jacobs to serve as the chief rabbi of 11 of the 12 provinces in the country.
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NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Last Wednesday, February 18, our class went to Manhattan to see ancient Seforim from all around the world. Jack Lunzer has been acquiring Jewish manuscripts for a long time, and now Sotheby’s is auctioning the collection off. The collection consists of Gemaras, Chumashim, Sidurim, Tehillim, old newspapers, Shulchan Aruch, Benchers, invitations, Haggadahs, Megillos and other assorted Seforim.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel and Rishi (nee Kaminetzky) Cohen (Melbourne, Australia) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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