admin | June 8, 2017
Getty Images Women visiting the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Who among us would disagree with the suggestion that we unite to show our children that there is another way? Out of context, this suggestion seems as if it might relate to climate change, say
admin | June 7, 2017
In his years-long battle to build thousands of homes for Orthodox Jews in the small upstate New York village of Bloomingburg, developer Shalom Lamm often cast himself as a victim of anti-Semitism. On Tuesday, Lamm took on a new role: admitted felon. Lamm, son of one of Modern Orthodoxys most prominent rabbinic leaders, pled guilty in federal court in White Plains to a single count of conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process
richards | June 7, 2017
Getty Images Women visiting the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Who among us would disagree with the suggestion that we unite to show our children that there is another way
richards | June 4, 2017
The man's body was found in the same home where the remains of a lost 8-year-old boy, Leiby Kletzky, were found six years ago The brother of a man who kidnapped and dismembered a lost 8-year-old boy has been found dead, his body bound, wrapped in a blanket and stuffed in a basement closet in the same Brooklyn home where detectives uncovered the gruesome remains of the boy nearly six years ago. Detectives found Tzvi Aron's body after police were called there by family, a law enforcement official said.
simmons | June 2, 2017
The following essay has been adapted from Who Shall Lead Us: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America, by Samuel Heilman (University of California Press). In his old age, Yoelish Teitelbaum, the first Satmar Rebbe, had outlived his heirs
simmons | May 26, 2017
Students in the overwhelmingly black and Hispanic school district of Hempstead, New York, on Long Island, may be forgiven this fall if it takes them awhile to get used to their new superintendent a Hasidic Jew who wears a dark coat and hat, sports a beard and has a yarmulke made of velvet. Shimon Waronker, a 48-year-old veteran educator from New York City, has been appointed superintendent of a school district where few can remember the last time the schools chief was a white person, never mind a man who is a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect. The school district in central Nassau County is 99% black and Latino
simmons | May 24, 2017
Recently I fell into the same old discussion with a close girlfriend. As we talked about work, dating, and all the day-to-day trials of New York City women in 2017, she told me that if I stopped assuming that everything would just repeat as it always had, I might actually be able to break the cycle. Then, when she expressed anxiety over peoples criticism of her, I reminded her that her critics might just have problems with how they see themselves.
richards | May 24, 2017
Yaacov Behrman, director of the drug prevention group Operation Survival, demonstrates how to use naloxone nasal spray, a drug used to prevent fatal opioid overdoses. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Rachel Holliday Smith CROWN HEIGHTS The firstopioid overdoses in Yaacov Behrmans neighborhood happened more than a decade ago, around 2005,he remembers. At the time a period when accidental overdose deaths were rising in New York, according to data from the citys Department of Health he said many in his community of Lubavitch Crown Heights thought the first kids we lost were exceptions
admin | May 22, 2017
Hasidism, sometimes Hasidic Judaism (Hebrew: , hasidut, Ashkenazi pronunciation: [asidus]; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious sect. It arose as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine during the 18th century and spread rapidly throughout Eastern Europe. Today, most affiliates reside in the United States, Israel, and Britain
richards | May 19, 2017
God works in strange ways. So does Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein.
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