Chabadnik News
The Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia awarded a former yeshivah student who was sexually assaulted by his karate teacher $804,170 in a civil case against his perpetrator and serial abuser. Manny Waks was 13 when the abuse by his former karate teacher, David Cyprys, then 20, started in 1988 while he was a student at the Yeshivah […]
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 are doing mitzvahs in honor of his 48th birthday, and […]
The European Jewish Association is scheduled to unveil a wide-ranging action plan to fight anti-Semitism in Europe at its annual conference in Paris today (Tuesday). The plan was compiled in recent months by chairman of the EJA Rabbi Menachem Margolin and a team from the EJA, who consulted with experts, heads of Jewish communities throughout […]
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 […]
A new Jewish cemetery was consecrated in Fort Myers last week under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida. Named Chava’s Garden by donors Dr. James and Betty Rubenstein in memory of Betty’s mother, Chava Rabinowitz, the cemetery has space for 200 plots. Mrs. Rubenstein, an activist in the Jewish […]
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 […]
Our People’ – New Anash.org feature: Pop-Art Rabbi Yitzchok Moully talked with us about chassidus through artistic expression, and the Rebbe’s instruction that changed his life forever. A new Anash.org column puts the spotlight on the men and women who live in, work with, and inspire anash communities. By Anash.org writer If you’ve walked through […]
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 […]