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Mostly Music is proud to announce the mehadrin audio & video channels on El Al Israel Airlines. Many Jewish music fans are already enjoying the Mostly Music – Jewish Music […]

Boycott Against Flatbush Shaitel (Wig) Store Over
YWN had posted a letter from Rav Aron Schecter Shlita a few weeks ago  calling on people not to enter a Shaitel store on Coney Island Avenue. The store, located across the street from Yeshiva Chaim Berlin had refused to remove large inappropriate photos of women hanging in […]

You don’t have to do more than glance into the window of Moishe’s Bake Shop at 115 Second Ave. to know that this store is the real thing — the king of kosher bakeries in Manhattan.
You’ll see platters piled with traditional Jewish noshes like hamantashen, rugelach, mandelbrot, sugar kichels and chocolate babka, pastries baked the […]

Travelers on a kosher diet will get more options later this month at New York-area airports. Kosher Vending Industries, a Valley Cottage, N.Y.-based company, has a contract with New York John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports to install kosher-food vending machines at their facilities.At JFK, it will install four machines at Terminal 4 in […]

For the unaware, there is a wig store across the street from Yeshiva Chaim Berlin in Flatbush. The owner decided to place pictures of women wearing the wigs in his window. Since looking at women can cause impure thoughts, a few of Rav Aharon Schecter’s (RAS) talmidim asked the store owner to remove the pictures […]

Israel’s former ambassador to Poland, Mr. Shevach Weiss, who accompanied former president of Poland, Lech Walesa in his tour of Kfar Chabad, described in a former COL update, was interviewed on a Galei Tzahal radio program and expressed his impressions of this visit. “It was moving to tears to watch the site of this […]

Once again, the kashrus-observant world is faced with another shechita crisis. The problem effects shechita in America and across the globe. It has recently come to light that three major issues in cattle-raising and meat preservation are having a profound effect on the kashrus of meat.
The first problem involves a surgical procedure to remove excess […]

A few days before New Year’s, the racks at several haredi loungewear and hostess gown stores were still full of winter “Shabbos robes,” elegant but practical velour robes worn by haredi women at home. Women were browsing, but they weren’t buying.
Most years, the secular new year comes and goes without the haredim noticing, as they […]

Knesset decrees that student delegations to concentration camps will only eat kosher food.
“One enraged mother said Tuesday: “This is an outrage. If the state decided on kosher meals, let them fund them.” Yet another parent explained that her son’s school had informed her that the cost of the Poland mission had gone up from $1,100 […]

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Is one required to use an actual Menorah for the lighting of the Hanukah candles, or is it acceptable to simply place candles on a piece of aluminum foil, for example, and then light them for the Misva?
The work “Hesed Le’Avraham” addresses the similar case of one who wishes to […]

In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show that eating garlic appears to boost our natural supply of hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide is actually poisonous at high concentrations — it’s the same noxious byproduct of oil refining that smells like rotten eggs. But the body makes its […]

So, when was the first restaurant created?
Could it have been when Adam and Eve went to the all-you-can-eat buffet at the “Garden?” But as Adam and Eve found out, when it comes to buffet night, there is always something that we undoubtedly want that’s not on the menu.
Perhaps, we could point to another ancestor who […]