In attack-conscious Israel, even a crematorium needs protection
“After a short hiatus, Aley Shalechet has rebuilt its facilities and returned to business, albeit with a beefed up security system that was lacking before.”We have protection, much more than we ever did before,” says Alon Nativ founder and general manager of Aley Shalechet. ” 06.02.08 […]
Rachel Freier, a Hasidic woman, explains to a crowd Sunday evening at Congregation Eitz Chaim in Monroe that different sects of Hasidic men wear different hats. Freier, a lawyer, was there to help correct misconceptions people might have about Hasidic life in Kiryas Joel, where she lives.
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Top Israeli film director (”Beaufort,” “Campfire”) Joseph Cedar’s next film will tell the story of Veit Harlan, the leading German director who worked on behalf of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. As reported over the weekend on the Cinemascope blog, Cedar received the offer to direct the film from Rainer Grupe, a London producer of […]
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“Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, he has outlasted his predecessors, and test scores have risen enough to earn J.H.S. 22 an A on its new school report card. The school, once on the city’s list of the 12 most dangerous, […]
Mention of the Lower East Side often evokes images of heaving tenement buildings, anxious immigrants, and pungent pickles. While the pickles remain a landmark on Hester Street, the rest of the neighborhood has changed. The immigrants who came did everything they could to leave; today, their great-grandchildren are coming back in droves. Introducing them to […]
The split between the two heirs to the Satmar Hasidic dynasty spilled over into the political arena this week.
According to Yiddish-language listservs and blogs hosted in Israel, there is a an Internet campaign underway to urge Satmar residents in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn to vote for Hillary Clinton, while at the same time urging […]
You don’t have to do more than glance into the window of Moishe’s Bake Shop at 115 Second Ave. to know that this store is the real thing — the king of kosher bakeries in Manhattan.
You’ll see platters piled with traditional Jewish noshes like hamantashen, rugelach, mandelbrot, sugar kichels and chocolate babka, pastries baked the […]
A report about the plans for the new condominium to be built on 580 Crown Street, showed up on a ‘New York Times’ article, following which, a COL correspondent interviewed Reb Mendel Dreizin the realtor involved in this project. “There is a large demand for apartments in Crown Heights’ he said at the interview held […]
Travelers on a kosher diet will get more options later this month at New York-area airports. Kosher Vending Industries, a Valley Cottage, N.Y.-based company, has a contract with New York John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports to install kosher-food vending machines at their facilities.At JFK, it will install four machines at Terminal 4 in […]
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demo@nrg.co.il “You Never Know” Shlomo Carlebach
