“Koshertopia has cofirmed that The Diamond Dairy, a kosher hotspot in the Diamond District ( in the back mezzanine of the jewelry exchange on 4 W. 47th Street) has closed its doors for good. For close to 60 years, the diner, a hidden gem in the Diamond Distrcit, had been serving up Ashkenazic style Jewish food to the […]
“A Jewish Moldovan lights the Hanukkah Menorah next to the Holocaust Memorial in downtown Chisinau, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009. On Sunday, dozens of people led by an Orthodox priest smashed the menorah in Moldova’s capital, using hammers and iron bars to remove it. (Video) The 1.5 meter(5-foot)-tall ceremonial candelabrum was retrieved, relocated and is now […]
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“Chanukah Lights!” Young Israel of Brighton Beach. Rabbi Ephraim Zaltzman
This Motzai Shabbos, the 2nd night of Chanukah, a parade of 25 Mitzvah Tanks and 150 Menorah cars will leave to Manhattan from Crown Heights. All who have Menorahs on their car are requested to participate!
Meeting point: on President bet. Kingston & Albany @ 6:45
Please be on time, as we will be passing the Chanukah […]
“”If Gilad Shalit, Heaven forbid, is executed or not returned in peace, prisoners will be executed immediately,” ruled the court of the reestablished “Sandhedrin” organization, in a ruling published last week on the backdrop of the negotiations to release the captured Israeli soldier. The rabbis even recommended that Israel capture senior Palestinian figures – “including […]
“Another battle was been lost in the Great Hipster-Hasidic Wars of Williamsburg following reports that hipsters have been detained. The two bike lane vigilantes shown in a video repainting a Bloomberg-blasted bike lane were arrested, handcuffs and all, after turning themselves in to detectives yesterday evening. Quinn Hechtropf, 26, and Katherine Piccochi, 24, were charged […]
Golda Meir proposed limiting aliyah of handicapped Polish Jews
By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent
“In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed.”A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want […]
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” At the end of their conversation, a new book was presented: “Chassidus Mevueres - Tefilla,” a compilation of teachings by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745 – 1812), founder and first Rebbe of Chabad. Rabbi Shteinman immediately started reading, and his students commented, “now he won’t go to sleep, until he reads it […]
