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“Laws of Passover with Selected Commentaries” was written to satisfy very different groups of Russian Jews, according to Rabbi David Okunov, associate program director at F.R.E.E. headquarters, which published its first Russian language a quarter-century ago.

World-Renowned King of Cantorial-Music Yitchoke Meir Helfgot Serving Hot Meals at MASBIA soup Kitchen in the Month of its Third Anniversary. (PRNewsFoto/MASBIA.org) Three years ago, a welcomed guest arrived in the streets of BoroughPark Brooklyn. It wasn’t a famous rabbi or scholar, nor was it a well-knownpolitician coming to campaign in a neighborhood considered […]

TEL AVIV – Two musical talents with intertwining twists of fate… Ken Burgess, a noted composer, producer and singer, almost formed a duo with John Lennon after the Beatles broke up in 1970. Two decades later, Burgess converted to Orthodox Judaism and later went on to record several Jewish music records….Now his wife, Navah Baruchin, […]

AMSTERDAM — Dutch director Paul Verhoeven will publish his long-awaited biography of Jesus of Nazareth in September.
Published by Amsterdam-based Meulenhoff, the book is the result of more than 20 years of research. Over the years, Verhoeven was a regular attendee of U.S. scholar Robert W. Funk’s Jesus seminars, which call into question miracles and statements […]

THE Hasidic enclave of South Williamsburg is a good place to be a shoe repairman. Several cobblers there make a living thanks to the distinctive formality of the local Hasidic Jews, a formality that spares only the babies. In a community where men and boys wear long, double-breasted coats with matching felt hats, where women […]

“Constantine’s Sword,” a film by Oren Jacoby, has its theatrical premier in New York on the day of the pope’s visit to the Synagogue.* The coincidence has no significance, although, in my mind, it raises these questions. In the film, Oren Jacoby and I show that the dark legacy of Christian antisemitism began to be […]

Be it people buying last minute chametz, new clothing for Yom Tov, or wine for the Seder - YWN takes you there in this exclusive photo essay that covers what erev Pesach is like in Lakewood - all the way from mechiras chametz to the burning of the chametz in Lakewood Cheder, and everything in […]

JERUSALEM — Israel’s public debate shifted this week from Hamas to hametz. But it remained no less heated.

The focus of the debate here is a ruling by a Jerusalem municipal judge overturning the convictions of four shops and restaurants for having sold pizzas and rolls during the holiday last year despite a law that many […]

The Rebbe’s birthday is not merely a personal event, affecting him alone. On the contrary, the very name Rebbe is an acronym for the Hebrew words , “head of the Jewish people.” The head contains the nerve center for the entire body, allowing all its diverse organs and limbs to function together as a single […]

A U.S. president for the 30th consecutive year has proclaimed Education and Sharing Day USA, a project of Chabad-Lubavitch.
It is repeated annually on Schneerson’s Hebrew birthday, which begins Tuesday night, in honor of his interest in teaching moral values in school. Schneerson was an early advocate of a Department of Education separate from the former […]

Passover will have yet more meaning this year for Shirley Levy, who came from Caracas, Venezuela, to Crown Heights to learn about Judaism.By the time the holiday begins at sundown Saturday, Levy, 25, will have learned how to properly remove all yeast products from her home and how hand matzoh is correctly made within 18 […]