admin | February 19, 2020
By Ilana Siyance Over half of all the hate crimes in New York City last year were attacks against Jewish people, the NY Times reported. As anti-Semitic attacks rise, orthodox Jews, or those who look visibly Jewish, are taking the brunt of most of these attacks
admin | February 19, 2020
Nissim Black knows that wherever he goes, hes going to turn heads.
admin | February 16, 2020
Read in Yiddish. For the first time, the Canadian government is getting a taste of what New York City and state have been dealing with for years a trial over a lawsuit accusing it of failing to provide adequate secular education to Hasidic children. Yohanan Lowen, and his wife Shifra, claim in the lawsuit against the province of Quebec that when Yohanan graduated at age 18, he was unable to read or write in French or English or perform basic arithmetic
admin | February 16, 2020
Jane Anderson Times Herald-Record @JaneAndersonTHR ThursdayFeb13,2020at6:22PM This week's passage of a state Assembly bill that would help preserve land in Orange County has raised charges of anti-Hasidim motives from an Orthodox Jewish group. Named the Orange County Community Preservation Act, the bill adds Orange County to the list of Hudson Valley counties that are eligible to raise funding for community preservation through taxes on property sales.
admin | February 12, 2020
Its a courtroom trial, but it felt like a math class. Wednesday saw expert testimony on racially segregated voting in the East Ramapo Central School District, a majority Orthodox suburban district that has been plagued by a battle over funding to the districts public schools.
admin | February 12, 2020
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Lawyers on Monday presented starkly different perspectives on identity politics in a suburban New York school district, as a federal trial opened in a voting-rights case that caps more than a dozen years of battle over funding between Orthodox Jews and their mostly black and Latino neighbors
admin | February 12, 2020
As reported in Jewish newspaper The Forward, the First Edition of the Yiddish translation of Harry Potter and the PhilosophersStone, comprising 1,000 copies, sold out within two days of publication, with orders coming in from theUnited States, Israel, Poland, Sweden, Morocco, Australia, and China.
admin | February 8, 2020
1. The Hasidic Movement Is About Love, Joy and Humility Hasidim belong to a movement that was founded by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov,who taught love, joy and humilityboth in our service of Gd and in our treatment of fellow human beings. In the early 1700s, in the area today known asthe Ukraine, a young orphan boy named Israel ben Eleazar loved to wander into the forest, even sleeping there overnight
admin | February 8, 2020
Motzoei Shabbos Story: One day, a group of thugs arrived at the home of Dovid Itkin, a real estate broker in Warsaw. The gang read from a prepared paper that demanded the large sum of 200 gold rubles. The Rebbe Rashab said to make peace with them..
admin | February 8, 2020
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