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Besides the coronavirus epidemic, Israel has another crisis on its hands. It’s inside the government and only tangentially related to COVID-19. Here’s the short version: After Israel’s latest election earlier this month — its third in a year — Benny Gantz and his center-left coalition seem closer than ever to garnering enough support to oust […]
The global rabbinic leadership has called on the House of Israel to observe a half-day fast on Wednesday, March 25 (Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan) as the Jewish world – indeed, the entire planet – continues to struggle with the COVID-19 coronavirus that has attacked one country after another. In Britain, the country’s most senior rabbi […]
More than half of a group of 114 students who returned to Israel from a yeshiva near the Chabad world headquarters in New York have tested positive for coronavirus. The Hasidic students returned after the headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighbourhood of Brooklyn was closed for the first time ever. They were […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of everyday life in the city. On Friday, state officials confirmed that there are 50 positive COVID-19 cases, including one fatality, a Bergen County man. The rapidly evolving pandemic has forced several social gatherings, cultural events, religious ceremonies and more to be altered, […]
Does the coronavirus have you stuck at home for Shabbat, isolated from your synagogue and social group? Not sure how to celebrate alone? Here are 10 tips to make this Shabbat as pleasant and rejuvenating as possible: 1. Prepare Shabbat Feasts “Anyone who puts in the effort to prepare on the eve of Shabbat will […]
SALT LAKE Metropolis — A woman convicted of abusing an Orthodox rabbi all over a lot of his childhood when she was his nanny was purchased Thursday to serve at least 25 several years and up to everyday living in jail. 3rd District Judge Vernice Trease sentenced a tearful Alavina Fungaihea Florreich, 70, adhering to […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A public square in Rio de Janeiro was named for the late Hasidic leader rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson three decades after the first Chabad center was opened in Brazil’s second-largest city. Several political and Jewish community leaders attended the Wednesday ceremony to honor the legacy of Schneerson, who led the […]
“As women, we have every ability to be part of the mission and dream of the Rebbe [Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson],” said Dini Freundlich, keynote speaker. Over 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch female leaders gathered in Brooklyn, New York for the multi-day Kinus Hashluchos, the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries. omen attending come from all across […]