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On Wednesday, with a little help from technology, a coronavirus-related setback was averted for a group of seniors and children. The lower elementary classes of Maimonides Jewish Day School in Portland, run by Chabad of Oregon, planned to visit the residents of Cedar Sinai Park, a senior living and care center. As part of the […]
EAST COBB — A unique Torah scroll handwritten by a specially trained scribe at various holy sites in Israel is officially complete and home among Cobb’s Jewish population. More than 200 people packed the Chabad of Cobb on Lower Roswell Road on Sunday morning to see the historic Torah scroll finished by Rabbi Moshe Klein, […]
Tired, starved, and downtrodden, we Jewish prisoners plodded into the barracks where we spent a few miserable hours on hard bunks before another day of backbreaking labor. We were too exhausted to think, but when our minds wandered back to times long gone, we could not help but wonder if it had all been a […]
There are four mitzvahs that every Jew must do on Purim, as outlined in the Book of Esther: Listen to the Megillah being read on the eve of Purim, and then again the following day. On Purim day be sure to give charity to at least two poor people. Give a gift of at least […]
NEW YORK — Slipping on a black tricorn hat, 7-year-old Daphne Greene grinned at her mom while they eyed costumes on Thursday at the West Side Judaica & Bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Daphne told her mom she should buy the penguin outfit hanging from the ceiling. Described by some as the “Jewish Halloween,” […]
The challenge of being legally blind since birth has not stopped Richard Bernstein from becoming a lawyer, a Michigan Supreme Court Justice, run more than 20 marathons and compete in a Ironman triathlon race. Bernstein recently inspired the local Jewish community when he shared his story at synagogues and day schools in South Florida. Bernstein […]
Rabbi Shaya Gopin recently sat down with Ronni Newton for a light-hearted conversation about the man behind the job. ‘Coffee with …’ is a monthly feature that appears in West Hartford LIFE. This piece appeared in the February 2020 issue. Rabbi Shaya Gopin is pretty sure he is the only rabbi currently serving the West […]
A Thank You to German Chancellor… “World Jewish Congress president Ambassadåor RONALD S. LAUDER met recently with German Chancellor ANGELA MERKEL at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp and thanked her for announcing that Germany is committing $66 million to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to support preservation of the memorial site. (Millions […]
Following Israel’s announcement on Wednesday that anyone returning from France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain will be required to self-quarantine, a directive that applies retroactively to anyone who has visited these countries in the past two weeks, a number of Mir bochurim who returned from their homes in Europe recently will now have to self-quarantine, […]
Looking out the window of his office, Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum finds it hard to get work done when he sees kids enjoying the miniature town he built for them. The indoor “Main Street” inside his enclosed “LifeTown” complex in Livingston, New Jersey, lets children with special needs — “special abilities,” Grossbaum insists — hone their […]