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“London’s oldest Ashkenazi synagogue was this week awarded a repair grant of more than £250,000 amid warnings that two of the beams supporting the historic building could collapse if essential work was not carried out. Following the discovery last September that two of the four supports for the centuries-old roof at Sandys Row […]
“Kollel Chabad will this year, as in past years, distribute mezonos and drink to thousands and thousands of visitors to the Kosel on Shavuos. There will also be a kedusha rabba following neitz shacris. Immediately following neitz shachris at the Kosel, the large promenade area is converted to host the kedusha rabba, seeking to permit […]
“For whatever reason, the centennial’s organizers missed the fact that Tel Aviv was the preferred place of residence for senior Hasidic rabbis and their followers; they created a world whose size and quality easily compared to the communities of Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.From the early 1930s to the 1970s, more than 20 […]
“An Ultra Orthodox Jewish man harvests wheat ahead of the Jewish Shavuot holiday, in a field outside the Israeli community of Mevo Horon, Israel, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, commemorating Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and also a harvest holiday, begins on Thursday at sundown.” DayLife.com
“Renowned Jewish scholar Rabbi Adin Even Yisroel Steinsaltz visited Oxford University’s Chabad Society this week to deliver a lecture in honor of Sir Isaiah Berlin, considered by many to be one of the most prominent liberal thinkers of the 20th century. Not just content with simply presenting a lecture, though, the Israeli rabbi joined a […]
” In the two and a half weeks since 27 people went on trial here for the brutal 2006 kidnapping, torture and killing of a young Jewish man, little has filtered out about the proceedings. Despite the sensational nature of the case and the serious issues it has raised — from the rise of anti-Semitism […]
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“Every day he went to the Pletzel – the Jewish district – which had Rue D’Rosei [and] two shteiblach,” or synagogues, said Lax, 90 and retired in London, in an interview with Jewish Educational Media (JEM), producers of the DVD. “Number 17 was Chabad and 25 was everything, what you want,” meaning that […]
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“According to the Australian newspaper , Australian millionaire Joseph Gutnick is currently involved in a takeover bid for North Australia Diamonds valued at $24 million. Twenty-one years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe told Gutnick that he would make discoveries of gold and diamonds within five years.” more@IsraeliDiamond.co.il
“Black may be the new black (and the old black) in Crown Heights, Williamsburg and Borough Park. But if you thought that Hasidic hats all look the same — black brim, black crown, black band and bow — you would be wrong. Mirroring the subtle but significant differences among their Orthodox Jewish wearers, there are […]
“Since we are now in my office following the official reception — and since there is no one here who could relate what I would like to convey to you here and, neither consciously nor unconsciously, take it out of context and blow it up into a crisis in our relations — allow me to […]
