Matisyahu: 2nd Annual Festival of Light: 4 shows across 2 boroughs
December 4th and 5th Roseland Ballroom
239 West 52nd Street - New York City
Doors: 6:45PM / Show: 7:30
December 6th and 8th – JUST ADDED!
Warsaw 61 Driggs Avenue - Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Doors: 7:00PM / Show: 8:00PM MatisMusic.com
After Lubavitch, the reggae star is now hanging his hat with an ecstatic chasidic sect.
“Now in a more religiously fluid place, “we’re just frum Jews,” Matisyahu says of his family, in his first extensive interview since breaking off from Lubavitch. “I live in Crown Heights but I daven in Borough Park in Karlin” synagogues when […]
This Thursday, Yud Tes Kislev “The Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus.” marks 208 years since the release of the Alter Rebbe, in the year 5559 (1798). In preparation of this auspicious day, which is referred to by Chasidim as the “Holiday of Holidays”, Chabad.info presents the Minhagim for Yud Tes Kislev, in ‘Full Article”.
“In this context, a unique miracle of recent times is worthy of attention. Just as every nation has a flag of its own, every nation has a national anthem. France too possesses a national anthem, a melody rooted in the core of the French Revolution, and composed exactly two hundred years ago, on the eve […]
In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show that eating garlic appears to boost our natural supply of hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide is actually poisonous at high concentrations — it’s the same noxious byproduct of oil refining that smells like rotten eggs. But the body makes its […]
In what may be the most important development in chassidic publishing since the translation of the Tanya in the 1960s (and just in time for Yud-Tes Kislev), Purity Press has announced that the Alter Rebbe’s classics, Torah Or and Likkutei Torah—considered the “Oral Torah of Chassidus” (Tanya being the “Written Torah”)—have been adapted into readily […]
Next week, the criminal Israeli government led by Ehud Olmert will be gathering with Palestinian leaders at Annapolis to plan additional concessions which may include establishing a Palestinian state R”L, thereby endangering the lives of millions of Jewish people. The ‘Maateh Haolami - headquarters to save the nation and the land’ under the directorship, of […]
November 21, 2007 — Citing the risk of violating the separation of church and state, New York’s highest court has declined to rule on a long-running feud between rival factions of Brooklyn’s Hasidic Satmar sect.
In a decision published yesterday, the Court of Appeals took no position on the war between groups supporting Zalmen or […]
So, when was the first restaurant created?
Could it have been when Adam and Eve went to the all-you-can-eat buffet at the “Garden?” But as Adam and Eve found out, when it comes to buffet night, there is always something that we undoubtedly want that’s not on the menu.
Perhaps, we could point to another ancestor who […]
The move comes a day after SIG Specialists said it would stop being a specialist, leaving the NYSE with just five specialist firms.
(AP) - The outlook for the New York Stock Exchange’s iconic trading floor darkened considerably this week, as two of the exchange’s seven stock trading specialists decided to call it quits.
On Thursday, Van […]
“The Unheeded Crythe gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, the valiant Holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred. ”
6 Kislev - R’ Michoel Ber Weissmandel (1957), Rosh Yeshiva of Nitra Yeshiva, renowned for his mesiras nefesh during the Holocaust, risking his own life to save Jews. His wife and children were murdered […]
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine – The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk hosted the launch of a new initiative – ‘Virtual Torah’ –. Through this initiative, Russian-speaking Jews will have the opportunity to access a new DVD every week featuring informative lessons on the Torah and commentaries. Each disc will contain an entire week’s chapter, divided into lessons for […]
