On the 10th of Tevet in the Hebrew year 3336 (425 BCE), the army of Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar surrounded Jerusalem’s stone walls and laid siege on the city. This was the beginning of the end of the first Beit Hamikdash; on the 17th of Tammuz, 3338, the city walls were breached, and three weeks later, […]
Chabad of S.I. to host courses on ‘Judaism’s gifts to the world’
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Chabad of Staten Island plans to host a series of courses later this month on Judaism’s contributions to the Western world. Amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks, the Meiers Corners congregation will host the weekly, six-session course titled “Judaism’s Gifts of the World” starting Sunday, Jan. 26 at 10:30 a.m. For […]
70 Days For 70 Years: Day 38
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Texas Chabad ‘Mom’ Receives “Be Remarkable” Award
Chabad representative is recognized for her remarkable contribution to the community. Manya Lazaroff, director of Chabad at Texas A&M University, was caught by surprise. She was in the middle of a meeting when a crew from KBTX-TV arrived at the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center to present her with the ‘Be Remarkable’ award on December 12th. […]
Hanukkah happiness! Stem cell donor meets man whose life he saved
PARK SLOPE — It was the perfect Hanukkah gift. A Queens man who donated his stem cells to a donor bank got the chance to meet the man whose life he saved, providing a touching moment during a celebratory Menorah lighting ceremony that took place on the first night of Hanukkah in Brooklyn’s Grand Army […]
70 Days For 70 Years: Day 37
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It Doesn’t Matter What The Goyim Say, It Matters What the Jews Do! By Uriel Vigler
It has become blatantly obvious that we are witnessing a full-fledged epidemic of Anti-Semitic attacks. In the last week alone, there has been at least one incident each day. For the first time in modern US history, Jews are afraid to shop at kosher stores, afraid to go to shul, afraid to send their kids […]
Critically Injured Monsey Victim Is a Beloved Scholar Who Collected for the Poor
Those who know him all use the same Yiddish words to describe 72-year-old Yosef Neumann, who was brutally stabbed at a Chanukah celebration in Monsey, N.Y., and remains in critical condition: “He is a fartzeitishe Chassidisher Yid,” a Chassidic Jew from a bygone era, an unending font of Chassidic stories, anecdotes, and adages. Although he […]