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A new Shomer Shabbos gas station has opened in Crown Heights on Utica and E. New York Avenues. Shturem.net

photos of the Nadvorna Rebbe Shlita conducting the Pesach Sheni Tish.

“I don’t think the Jewish community can survive at this point without Rubashkin,” the owner of KosherMart in Rockville, Md., Mordechai Yitzhaky, said of the family that owns Agriprocessors. NYsun

McCain issued a statement after audio surfaced in which Hagee said “God sent Adolf Hitler-imah shmoi- to help Jews reach the promised land.”McCain said in a statement: “Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee’s endorsement, and I feel […]

If New York is a center for independent film, and moreso, a place see the latest in films made by and for the Jewish community, then it is also a place for films by Jewish women as well. Now the National Council of Jewish Women New York Section is sponsoring a Jewish Women’’s Film Festival […]

“Or Yehuda, a small town near Tel Aviv, did what bigger places should have already done a long time ago. Inhabitants collected Christian missionary material and burned everything publicly. Thus, several hundred New Testaments were burned.I just wish that other places would follow this example.As soon as I see a pile of New Testaments laid […]

A New York state judge has declined to recognize an Israeli divorce judgment that was based on a “get,” or decree of divorce, issued by a Brooklyn rabbi.”If this court were to sanction the utilization of a ‘Get’ to circumvent the constitutional requirement that only the Supreme Court can grant a civil divorce, then a […]

“Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday”.
“In it, the renowned scientist, who declined an invitation to become Israel’s second president, rejected the idea that the Jews are God’s chosen people” “And […]

Despite the severity of their dress—black from skullcap to shoes for men, ankle-length skirts and head scarves for women—the Hasidim are not a somber people. The founder of the movement, the Baal Shem Tov, taught that God wants his creatures to approach him with enthusiasm and joy. His followers (Hasidim means “the pious”) put singing […]

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A source tells YWN, that Kelly suddenly arrived in Crown Heights unannounced at 11:30PM on Monday night, surprising all those that saw him sitting in his car parked outside Chabad Headquarters, located at 770 Eastern Parkway.The Commissioner sat talking to residents outside 770, and listened attentively to their complaints. The Commissioner […]

Kosher Vending Industries, a Valley Cottage, N.Y.-based company, has installed 4 Kosher dairy diners and 2 Glatt Kosher Hot Dog machines at JFK airport.

The machines are located presecurity inside international terminal 4, right across from the Duty Free Shop on the 3rd floor. “Travelers on a kosher diet will have more options […]