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After Being Shot, Chabad Rabbi Comforts Poway Congregation & the Country

Perhaps the greatest lesson to take from Saturday’s grisly shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San Diego is how ordinary Jews’ love...

Staten Island Passover/Pesach Bread Burning/Biur Chometz Preparation Coordinated and Arranged by COJO-SI Security Committee, Encompassing, NYPD, FDNY, DSNY, in Conjunction with Shomrim, Hatzolah and...

With Passover season upon us, April 19, 2019, marked the Annual Bread Burning/Biur Chometz which was organized by the Staten Island Council of Jewish...

Passover in Hell – Hiding from the Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto

My grandfather’s Passover Seder A raging fire burned through Europe through the years 1939 – 1945, destroying European Jewry. Mendel and Moshe Brachfeld – my...

The 1929 Struggle to Send Matzah into the Soviet Union

Marking 90 years since Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn’s international campaign It was the end of 1928, and food shortages were once again starting to hit...

WJC Slams Beating of “Judas” Effigy in Poland on Good Friday

The huge effigy was said to represent the Jewish biblical character of Judas Iscariot Edited by: JV Staff The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Sunday slammed...

First Time Since Holocaust:  A Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto

76 years ago, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out on April 19, 1943, the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover.  German troops stormed...

Short and Deep Insights for Seder Night

We all want good and thoughtful ideas to share at the Seder. This collection of short and deep insights for the Seder are organized...

Vaccination is Pikuach Nefesh

There is a small, yet very vocal and influential group of “anti-vaxxers” living in our heimishecommunities. While I am not questioning their love for their...

Statement from Agudath Israel of America on the Measles Outbreak and “Infectious Hatred”

Agudath Israel of America is deeply concerned about the recent outbreak of measles and the threat it poses to communities around the country. For that...

Rabbinical Alliance of America Recognition of Gay Marriage – Prohibited

The Rabbinical Alliance of America – Igud HaRabonim, representing nearly one thousand Orthodox rabbis serving throughout the United States – emphatically censures any attempts...

Passover: Making it Personal

How can we identify with the Jewish slaves today? “In every generation each individual is bound to regard himself as if he had gone personally...

Passover Question Round-Up

WHAT DOES OU-P MEAN? The OU-P symbol means that the OU has certified a product bearing that label as Kosher for Passover. To receive such...

Parshas Metzora: Reflections on a Road Not Taken

Most of us have experienced a phase earlier in our lives, perhaps in high school, during which we dreamed of some specific career. It...

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