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 […]
Council Member Simcha Felder and Community Boards 12 and 14 announced that the Department of Sanitation will be conducting additional garbage collection in preparation for Passover. On Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, there will be an additional collection in areas of Community Board 12 and Community Board 14. In addition, there will be […]
The situation of Erev Pesah occurring on Shabbat affects a number of different aspects of the pre-Pesah schedule. These changes begin with the observance of Shabbat Hagadol (literally, “the Great Shabbat“), which we normally observe on the Shabbat immediately preceding Pesah. Several different customs are practiced on this Shabbat, most notably the “Derasha” […]
Morsels of Hebrew Grammar by Dr. Meshullam Klarberg
The answer is known, but what is the question?
ma nishtana halayla haze mikol haleilot? (Mishna Pesachim, 116A) (’How
nishtana this night from all other nights?’) Many English translations
render the verb nishtana in the present tense. However, the Hebrew form is
past tense, and this was already noted in the 17th […]
During a unique and impressive event, ‘Borsalino Italian Hats’ inaugurated its new branch in Yerushalayim. Rav HaKotel Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz and singer Lipa Shmeltzer were honored with the fixing of the mezuzot. Rabbi Rabinowitz congratulated Mendy Bostomsky who has 13 years experience in the business and Roi Goren.At the completion of the ceremony it was […]
ALBANY — A local professor will spend the summer researching an encyclopedia written in the Yiddish language in the 1930s in Berlin and translate parts into English.
University at Albany assistant professor of Judaic studies Barry Trachtenberg was awarded $6,000 to research Di algemeyne entsiklopedye (the General Encyclopedia).
“Very few people are aware of the story of […]
Shemurah Matzah: [295] The Rebbe Shlita has asked everyone, especially rabbanim,shochatim and anyone else involved in communal activities, to endeavor to distribute round, hand-baked matzos specifically shemurah to their acquaintances, sufficient for at least both Sedarim. People organizing communal Sedarim, in hotels and the like, should also attend to this. [296]The […]
This past Thursday afternoon, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly made a personal visit to the Satmar Rebbe from Williamsburg, Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum Shlita to wish the Rebbe and all Satmar Chassidim a safe and secure Yom Tov of Pesach. The Rebbe welcomed the commissioner warmly to his home, and wished him much luck in all his future endeavours, […]
And foments an agenda, besides. After all, if there are ultra-Orthodox Jews, then there are merely Orthodox ones as well, and what makes the recourse to “ultra” so pernicious is its very status as prefix, a descriptive tack-on to a more primeval, integral Judaism of truer provenance. Orthodox Jews seem to be seen as marking […]
