“Williamsburg Shomrim (WSPU) received a call to their hotline by someone who noticed the spray-painted swastikas on the bus parked at Harrison Avenue & Wallabout Street, and sent units to investigate. Upon the arrival of WSPU, they requested officers from the nearby 90th Precinct to respond - who in turn requested the NYPD Hate Crimes […]
photo:’”ULY 2nd Grade Feed the Birds “Chabad.info
“On Shabbos Shirah, 5702, the Previous Rebbe related that the Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehuda Lowe) established a custom — hopefully the custom will be reinstituted — that during the week before Shabbos Beshallach he would inform all the teachers and parents of small children to bring their children to […]
” A detail of a toy-sized diamond-studded train by Danish artist Marco Evaristti, part of a sculpture commemorating the horrors of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, in Copenhagen, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Evaristti, a Chilean-born Buddhist convert with Jewish parents, said parts of the 5.1-pound (2.3-kilogram) sculpture were built with enamel and gold fillings from […]
“To all outside appearances, Assembly Member Dov Hikind had been something of a mench for his former chief of staff, David Greenfield. When Greenfield had gone to Albany to lobby elected officials, he had lunched in Hikind’s office. A couple years ago, Hikind’s political club, the United New York Democrats, held an event honoring Greenfield […]
“The 15th day of the Jewish month of Shevat is the official “birthday” for trees in Israel. Calculating the years of a tree is necessary for several mitzvot of the Torah: ma’asorot - tithing [of each year’s fruit]; orla-forbidden fruit of a tree’s first three years; reva’i-[redemption of] the fruit of a tree’s fourth year; […]
“Washington, D.C. – Agudath Israel of America executive vice president Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel joined a group of prominent rabbis gathered for a news conference at the National Press Club here today to express dismay and concern over the premature imprisonment of Sholom Rubashkin, and to urge the U.S. Department of Justice to closely scrutinize […]
“Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) meets with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (L) and Alexander Boroda, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, January 26, 2010. ” DayLife.com
“The gemara in Brachos (6b) says that “Kol Neheneh MiSeudas Chosson V’Einoy Misamchoy Oiveir BChamisha Kolos”; whoever enjoys from a wedding meal without making the Chosson happy cheapens five brachos that Hashem gave Bnei Yisroel using the word “Kol”. What happens if after the Chupah the Chosson and Kalla are taking a very long time […]
“Reached for comment about the Auschwitz Torah, Poland’s chief rabbi, American Michael Schudrich, responds in an e-mail: “I cannot confirm anything that Menachem has written. I do not know the people he is referring to.” Youlus’s discovery is also a mystery to Tomasz Kuncewicz, director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, which cares for the Oswiecim […]
“Schwartz tells the story of how he conjured up the idea for his Laser-Accurate technology. “I was having dinner with my wife, Mary, in a restaurant,” he recalls. “On the table was an oil lamp from which a thin ribbon of smoke was rising. I noticed that every time Mary spoke, the column of smoke […]
“Naturally the commemorative publication makes no mention of what happened in Garmisch-Partenkirchen after the Olympics. The anti-Jewish signs were put up again. Beginning in 1937, the resort administration inserted notes that read “Jews not wanted” into all brochures sent to addresses within Germany. On Nov. 10, 1938, the last group of roughly 50 Jews living […]
On Monday, Yud Shvat, all Talmidim will gather for a “Seder Achdus” at 5:30pm in Beis Chayeinu – 770 for a joint learning of the Maamar Bosi Legani with Chavrusos. The above mentioned Sedorim are under the auspices of Hanholas HaYeshivos of Crown Heights. Chabad.info
