TRINITY, FL –Rabbi Yossi Eber is a hard person to miss. Walking through the aisles of a neighborhood grocery store with his long beard, velvet kippah (skullcap) and black suit, it’s obvious that he’s not from the area.
Over 500 attended Chabad of the Conejo’s gala dinner earlier this month. Entitled “A Celebration of the Human Spirit: Mind, Heart, Body and Soul” Rabbi Moshe Bryski explained how the Rebbe would never allow us to be satisfied with the status-quo.
Get close enough to the building that used to house the Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont and you’ll get a whiff of its burnt-out interior, empty since an Oct. 14 fire ravaged the building.
Students biking through Stanford’s White Plaza several weeks ago back-pedaled curiously to check out an unusual scene. Set up at the center of Stanford’s campus was a Google Glass tefillin stand.
Education advocates fed up with a lack of English, math and science in some Jewish parochial schools have taken their frustration to the street — or, more accurately, to a huge billboard overhanging the BQE.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on Yud Beis – Yud Gimmel Tammuz, and the history of the seven arrests.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — When Rabbi Naftali Estulin walked into the synagogue, the men were waiting for him. They had come with canes and walkers and medals. Some wore yarmulkes. Several covered their heads with hats lettered “LA VETERAN ASSN WWII.”
MONROE, NJ — Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky was called upon to be an official ‘witness’ for the Guinness Book of World Records, documenting an historical occasion of the most centenarians in one event (40!) at a Jewish nursing facility in NJ.
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Midwood, Brooklyn, Lipa Lieberman noticed early on that his most successful neighbors owned real estate.
Jews from as far as Ventura, California all the way to Los Angeles gathered at the Thousand Oaks high school to participate in the Lag BaOmer festivities.
As thousands gathered at the Great Parade in Crown Heights, a group of thugs and terrorists had more important business to attend to – breaking into and vandalizing a dormitory room at 1414, completely destroying one students belongings.
On a recent spring evening, men and woman from throughout Orange County filled the home Dr. Seth & Nadine Pulver in Highland Mills for “Recipes Remembered” with Author June Hersh, hosted by Chabad of Orange County.
Assistant Chief Thomas Chan, the current commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, was promoted today to serve as the new chief of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau. Replacing him will be Assistant Chief Owen J. Monaghan, coming from the Transit Bureau where he served as the executive officer.
Two prestigious religious rights organizations filed Friend of the Court (Amicus Curiae) briefs on Monday in the federal second Court of Appeals in an appeal of a lower court’s decision denying an injunction against New York City’s unprecedented regulation of bris milah.
Their steps were powerful, as were the footprints they left behind. Like every year shortly after Passover, Holocaust survivors, their descendants, and groups of high school students from around the world took part in “March of the Living,” a two-week program that starts in Poland and ends in Israel.
Everyone knows the story, or at least has heard of it. The plagues, the Pharaoh, the escape from Egypt, the exodus and search for the Promised Land.
Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, a conservative news and information service, published an article featuring Rabbi Benny Hershcovich’s Weekly Torah Thought, under the title “Check out this Rabbi’s Very Funny Bible Study Videos Complete with Guitar-Jammin’ and Rockin’ Vocals”
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