“And because the Dönme played an outsize role at key moments in modern Turkish history, the myth of their secret Jewish power has itself become powerful. As Baer writes in his introduction, there have recently been bestselling books in Turkey claiming that everyone from the current prime minister, the religious Muslim Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to […]
“Tomb stones of Prague’s Jewish Cemetery are covered by snow January 11, 2010, as the cold weather hit the Europe in recent days. ” DayLife.com
“Representatives of Jewish communities recently held peaceful protests in front of Malta’s embassies in Tel Aviv and Washington to urge the Maltese government to ensure there is no interference with human bones at the Jewish catacombs in Rabat. The Prime Minister has also received at least three letters of concern from US senators and a […]
“Neighborhood rabbonim and the Religious Council in Yerushalayim are protesting deliberate actions by the municipality to furtively take down dozens of eruv posts in the southern part of the city. The recent incident - the worst of four recent incidents - caused extensive damage to costly, mehudar posts, leaving thousands of residents in south Jerusalem […]
“A supporter holds up an equality sign as he stands near a group of Orthodox Jewish men against gay marriage as groups for and against gathered outside the New Jersey Statehouse Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, in Trenton, N.J. The state Senate is scheduled to vote on legalizing gay marriage Thursday. If it passes, the Assembly […]
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“The levaya of Hayeled Avrohom Dovid Liberow will leave Shomrei Hadas Chapel at 1:30 this afternoon, continuing to Chabad of Flatbush at 2:00, and will pass 770 lerech 2:30″
“Avrohom Dovid Liberow, the 9 year-old son of a Chabad Shliach in New York, was killed in a Wednesday night car crash. Rabbi Zalman Liberow was traveling back with his family from a wedding in Grand Rapids, Michigan, when a tractor-trailer lost control on Interstate 80 in Western Pennsylvania, crossing over the median and hitting […]
After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when the bodies of the Convoy of 35 were returned to Israel, the Israel Defense Forces Chief Rabbinate couldn’t verify the identity of 12 bodies. The problem of the identification was due to the mutilation of the bodies. To solve the problem, Rabbi Aryeh Levin was handed the task to […]
We are excited to invite you to a “Weekend to Remember” which we are organizing in conjunction with other Chabad organizations on February 12-14, 2010 at the luxurious Hilton Hotel in Stamford, CT (1 hour drive from NY).
The program will include inspiring lectures and stimulating discussions by special guests – renowned speakers from Jerusalem, Moscow […]
“A few hundred mourners gathered in the frigid cold Monday morning for a funeral for a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor said to have left behind more than 2,500 descendants.Yitta Schwartz, who died about 6 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, is thought to have had the largest extended family of anyone in the generation of […]
“With his dark-blue uniform, earpiece and walkie-talkie, Nochem Perlberger could pass for a police officer as he patrols the leafy streets of London’s Stamford Hill neighbourhood. Like an officer of the law, he responds to emergency calls, visits crime scenes and pursues suspects.However, he is a member not of the constabulary but of the Stamford […]
