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The Jewish community in Iceland joyfully held a hachnasas Sefer Torah last week in the capital city of Reykjavík for the Nordic country’s first permanent Torah, a JTA report said. For a country in which shechita has been illegal for decades and has made headlines in the Jewish press for its proposal to criminalize circumcision […]
After elucidating the reason a (relatively) small number of Prophets were cited (in juxtaposing lackluster spiritual awakenings they engendered, in comparison with the tsunami of Teshuva caused by Haman), the Talmud seeks to identity the seven Prophetesses – also cast as less impactful. Interestingly, the distinction of prophetic posterity isn’t overtly invoked, and there seems […]
Chumash Pardes with Peshat, Remez, Derush and Sod. Yeshivat HaChen together with some prominent Rabbis from Sharei Shamaim and Targum Publishers had produced a new set of Chumash Mikros Gdolos style that include 18 Meforshim from Kabbalistic/ Chassidic commentaries. ( Ari”ZL, Zohar, Besht, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Chabad – Sichos, R.NAchman of Breslov, Baal HaTania, Ben […]
SAN DIEGO – The Lawrence Family JCC in La Jolla was among a group of JCCs across the United States that received a non-specific, general bomb threat via email on Sunday morning, according to Betzy Lynch, its chief executive officer. She said the staff immediately notified the San Diego Police, which has a substation right […]
PARIS — A senior Hungarian official and close ally of President Victor Orban said Monday that his premier and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “belong to the same political family,” in a speech lauding Budapest’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism. “Relations [between our countries] are quite strong. The Israeli government knows very well that Hungary is doing […]
While Jewish institutions are closely monitoring the coronavirus epidemic, and while everyone worries about the impact of the situation on the city, Jews in northern Italy aren’t panicking. A Talmud class was canceled, as well as a conference on the history of Zionism and a book presentation at the Holocaust Memorial. Jewish life in Milan […]
The Cheder Menachem school in the thriving Chabad community of Kingston, Pennsylvania, has announced the hiring of a new Director. Rabbi Yossi Baumgarten, who served as the Assistant Director of Development at Bais Rivkah School in Crown Heights for the past 3 years, will be assuming the title of Director at the school which currently […]
The Board of Governors Meeting of the Jewish Agency for Israel held in Tel Aviv hosted a Chabad Shliach to speak about Chabad’s activities and growth in small towns and communities around America. The Board of Governors Meeting of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish nonprofit organization in the world, is currently being […]
For most girls, bat mitzvah is a time to look forward to. But for 42 Israeli girls who have lost a parent – for most, a father, killed in war or from terror – coming of age could have been a miserable time. But on Feb. 17, Colel Chabad welcomed the girls to a gala […]
Using only his eyes and a computer screen to communicate his heartfelt wishes, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, who has inspired and uplifted people around the world since being immobilized by ALS in 2013, wrote a deeply personal message describing his joy that thousands of Jewish people around the world are doing mitzvahs in honor of his […]