President Joe Biden Meets With Surfside Rabbis

Together with First Lady, Commander-in-Chief meets with families, thanks Jewish community President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited Surfside, Florida, yesterday to meet with families of those who perished or are still missing in last week’s devastating Champlain Towers collapse, encourage first responders who have been working without stop for a week, and […]

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Chabad Rabbi Stabbed Outside of Boston’s Shaloh House Jewish Day School

Rabbi Shlomo Noginski at home after being treated at a local hospital; suspect in custody Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was repeatedly stabbed today outside of the Shaloh House Jewish Day School in Brighton, Mass. Noginski serves as a rabbi and teacher at Shaloh House, a Chabad institution serving the Boston-area’s Russian Jewish community, and their […]

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‘Yossi Tenenboim Day’ Celebrates Young Shliach’s Bar Mitzvah

Hempstead, New York, Town Supervisor proclaimed June 16, 2021, “Yossi Tenenboim Day” in recognition of 13-year-old’s contribution to the community Hempstead Town Council Member Bruce Blakeman and Town Supervisor Don Clavin presented a citation to Yossi Tenenboim on June 16th, honoring the occasion of his bar mitzvah celebration. The 13-year-old son of Rabbi Nochum and […]

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Chabad Representative Stabbed, Assailant in Custody

This afternoon, Chabad representative Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed multiple times outside the Shaloh House Chabad Center in Brighton, Mass. Rabbi Noginski serves as a Rabbi and teacher at the Shaloh House. The suspect allegedly approached him, drew a firearm and attempted to force him to his car. After a struggle, the assailant stabbed Rabbi […]

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As the Surreal Turns Normal, Surfside’s Jewish Community Emergency Response Expands

The Shul of Bal Harbour’s overwhelming effort continues providing comfort and aid to all SURFSIDE, Florida — The feeling here can only be described as eerie. A heavy police presence patrols every artery leading into the twin beachside towns of Surfside and Bal Harbour, leaving its chic, normally bustling streets oddly empty. Nowadays, the most […]

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5 Things to Know About the Surfside Jewish Community

The Shul of Bal Harbour’s overwhelming effort continues providing comfort and aid to all In the days following the horrific condominium collapse in Surfside, Fla., the world has watched as the city’s Jewish community united to assist and console their friends and neighbors and all of the families and individuals directly impacted by the tragedy. […]

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Rabbi Pinchas Korf, 86, Beloved Chassidic Mentor and Role Model

Influenced and inspired thousands of students from all walks of Jewish life Rabbi Pinchas Korf, a beloved Chassidic mashpia (mentor) whose endearing smile, indefatigable energy and blazing inner fire influenced and inspired thousands of students and rabbinic peers for decades, passed away June 30. He was 86. Affectionately known to all as “Reb Pinye,” Korf […]

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