“U.S. real estate markets are suffering a serious retreat because of the subprime mortgage crisis and resulting credit crunch in the United States - and Tel Aviv is showing a lot more demand for bonds than New York.Leser’s private assets are estimated at NIS 500 million, on top of any money he will raise on […]
The latest project of an Upper East Side billionaire famous for his colossal Hamptons mansion is a 20-volume encyclopedia of all 613 commandments in Judaism. The “Encyclopedia of the Taryag Mitzvoth,” funded by the industrialist Ira Rennert, lists and explains each commandment in the Torah, such as the 25th commandment, to believe in God, and […]
Do you think the “Big Event Concert” should be banned? cast your vote. VOS IZ NEIAS
“Yeshiva World has just spoken to Lipa Schmeltzer (Motzei Shabbos 5:45AM EST) and he has informed us that he will not be singing at the “Big Event Concert”. This decision was reached after he consulted with Daas Torah, and […]
New York, NY - Has the “Big Event” concert planned by Sheya Mendlowitz in Madison Square Garden, featuring Shloime Gertner and Lipa been banned? It seems a group of Rabbonim in Eretz Yisroel have distributed flyers banning the huge concert slated to take place at Madison Square Garden this Purim. chabad.info
Hamodia prints Kol Koreh […]
“Obviously, each wedding has its own price structure, as there are differences not only in menu and numbers of portions,” comments Schuster, “but Simchat Tzion often needs to account for special circumstances, considering the needs of each individual case.” Still, Schuster estimates the average wedding costs about $3,700, and the organization often sponsors multiple weddings […]
Kiryas Joel — A chief rabbi of the Satmar Hasidim has decreed new laws to cut down on the increasingly extravagant cost of weddings among Hasidic Jews in the United States and throughout the world.Grand Rebbe Aaron Teitelbaum issued his new laws last month in a recording accessed by phone by many of the 100,000 […]
LAKEWOOD — The labels are not to be trusted.In a small basement cluttered with suit racks and rows of microscopes that conjure an image of Men’s Wearhouse meets high school science lab, Rabbi Yoel Shocket holds up a navy blue pinstripe with a tag boasting 100 percent wool. A dissection of the lining inside the […]
Mostly Music is proud to announce the mehadrin audio & video channels on El Al Israel Airlines. Many Jewish music fans are already enjoying the Mostly Music – Jewish Music […]
A NEW YORK VISION.Three years ago, Shaya Boymelgreen had just 20 employees. Now, he has more than 200, and among his new purchases is 20 Pine Street, in downtown Manhattan.
In a little over two years, Shaya Boymelgreen, an Israeli immigrant who came to New York in 1969 to study at a yeshiva, has gone from […]
Boycott Against Flatbush Shaitel (Wig) Store Over
YWN had posted a letter from Rav Aron Schecter Shlita a few weeks ago calling on people not to enter a Shaitel store on Coney Island Avenue. The store, located across the street from Yeshiva Chaim Berlin had refused to remove large inappropriate photos of women hanging in […]
Frank Sinatra reportedly played a role in smuggling guns to Israel in 1948.
Brian Greenspun, a son of Hank Greenspun, the Las Vegas media and real estate magnate who helped lead the gun smuggling effort, related the account Wednesday night to a Washington fund-raising dinner for Israel’s Rabin Center, an institute that promotes democracy and pluralism.
Greenspun, […]
A Williamsburg community activist who would be the first Hasidic Jew on the City Council if elected has decided to run for David Yassky’s seat.Isaac Abraham, a hardware store owner and tenants advocate, said he is responding to “very strong” pressure from friends, colleagues and community residents to seek the post Yassky must vacate in […]
