Once again, the kashrus-observant world is faced with another shechita crisis. The problem effects shechita in America and across the globe. It has recently come to light that three major issues in cattle-raising and meat preservation are having a profound effect on the kashrus of meat.
The first problem involves a surgical procedure to remove excess […]
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An einem blauen New Yorker Abend steht Johannes Schwaiger vor dem Ansonia-Gebäude in Manhattan und wartet. Es ist ein prächtiges Gebäude mit großer Geschichte, ein Haus der Musik. Toscanini lebte darin, Strawinsky komponierte darin, Yehudi Menuhin probte darin. Und nun wartet Schwaiger, 50, auf einen prominenten Schüler, die jüdische Reggae-Sensation Matisyahu, der Millionen Alben […]
When one of the two warring factions of the Satmar Hassidim was looking to advertise its annual commemoration of the late Grand Rebbe Joel Teitelbaum’s escape from the Nazis, it decided to hire a pro. Jpost.com
The program creates a uniform application for mortgage brokers and a database that banking regulators, and eventually consumers, can use to track down brokers who try to work in one state after being banned from another. Consumers should have access by next year and 35 other states have committed to join the program by the […]
The Grand Rabbi of Spinka pleaded not guilty to tax fraud and money laundering charges.Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz and five other members of the New York City-based Hasidic sect pleaded not guilty to U.S. federal charges Monday that they arranged and profited from accepting inflated charitable donations that saved the donors millions of dollars in […]
One of the reasons that the anniversary of a tzaddik’s death is considered a day of rejoicing[67] is that when a tzaddik dies, the purpose of his soul’s descent into a physical body has been accomplished.
To explain: The intent of the descent of the soul to this earthly plane reflects the paradigm of “descent for […]
A few days before New Year’s, the racks at several haredi loungewear and hostess gown stores were still full of winter “Shabbos robes,” elegant but practical velour robes worn by haredi women at home. Women were browsing, but they weren’t buying.
Most years, the secular new year comes and goes without the haredim noticing, as they […]
