“According to Rabbi Mendy Katz, Director of Outreach Programs at Aleph, “Yeshiva-in-Prison transplants these inmates from prison to a sort of Jewish sleep away camp.” Prisoners pray together, take meals together and study together. The impetus for the program comes from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, says Katz. “The Rebbe always stressed the […]
“A poster of a conservative initiative promoting the ban of the building of minarets in Switzerland is sprayed with a peace sign and a sticker saying “thank you” in the village of Amsteg in central Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the […]
“Jewish tourists take pictures of flood waters during a period of seasonal high water in Venice November 30, 2009. The water level in the canal city rose to 130 cm (4 feet) above normal, according to the monitoring institute. “ DayLife
Do you make kiddush on Friday night with wine or with grape juice? Is your wine red or white?
The Gemara on today’s daf (=page) brings Rav Zutra bar Tuvia who quotes Rav as teaching that only wine that could be used as a libation on the altar in the Temple can be used for […]
” Mumbai, India (CNN) — Countless bullet marks, a hole punched in a wall by a grenade and windows covered with plastic bear testimony to a carnage that left six people dead in Mumbai’s Chabad House last year when terrorist besieged several sites around the financial hub of India. Among those slain in the coordinated […]
Abraham’s sons and grandsons don’t limit their allegiances to the Grand Vizir. In 1854 Abraham Salomon represents the Austro-Hungarian community of the Ottoman Empire at the marriage of Franz-Joseph of Austria. In 1860, with the birth of his grandson Moses, he also founds the Universal Israelite Foundation in Paris. In 1865, seeing the decline of […]
“NAPLES, Fla. — Ten students at a Naples middle school were suspended after district officials say they participated in “kick a Jew day.” District spokesman Joe Landon says a Jewish student at North Naples Middle School student reported being kicked on Thursday. The school’s principal addressed the entire student body the next morning and asked […]
“Foreman doesn’t buy the criticism, saying portions of Halakhah, Jewish law, provide justification for the sport he not only loves, but one he feels brings him closer to God. “Look, if you ask, just boxing, any rabbi who doesn’t know boxing is going to give you an answer right away,” he said. “But when you’re […]
“Gateways’ Russian American Jewish Experience (RAJE) is now the highest-rated Jewish non-profit in North America and the fifth highest rated non-profit of all the 1.2 million non-profits listed on GuideStar, the central source of information on U.S. nonprofits.Gateways’ RAJE has been voted the #1 large Jewish non-profit organization in the Northeast during GreatNonprofits 2009 Jewish […]
“An ultra-orthodox Jewish man is detained by Israeli border policemen outside Intel’s office building, in Jerusalem, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Police dispersed thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews who demonstrated outside an Intel facility in Jerusalem Saturday in protest of the U.S. company operating on the Jewish Sabbath, which they view as a desecration of the sanctity […]
“Rabbi Leib Williger, Rosh Kollel at Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, was seen Monday at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens. On his way out he met the Rebbe’s secretary, Rabbi Leibel Groner. ” ColLive.com
