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(June 9, 2024 / JNS) Aleksander Janik, a stylist who has been photographed with stars like Celine Dion, Rihanna, Brooke Shields and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday, the New York Post reported. Janik pleaded not guilty to a hate-crime assault.
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Title: Faith and Fortitude: Megillat Ruth and the Torah Reading for Shavuot with Commentary from the Writings of Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits By: Compiled and Edited by Reuven Mohl Urim Publications Rav Eliezer Berkovits was one of the greatest rabbinic minds of the 20th century.
admin | June 15, 2024
Rav Avigdor Miller, ztl, said: The great tragedy of mankind is that we ignore the happiness of life. Hashem specially designed this world for happiness and pleasure. People overlook that; theyre ignorant of it
admin | June 15, 2024
When I lived in New York, we had a friendly non-Jewish taxi driver we used for airport runs.
admin | June 15, 2024
New North London Synagoguehas decided not to dismiss a rabbi who labelled Israeli politicians war criminals despite callstoremove Rabbi Lara Haft Yom-Tovfrom office. At least 130 members of the Masorti synagogue in Finchley, north-west London, had called for the rabbi to resign after the comments were published inApril. In a letter to members sent on Saturday evening, the co chair and co chief executivesaid the NNLSCouncil had voted unanimously not to dismiss Rabbi Lara following a disciplinary process.
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Policy Statements June 14, 2024 With the US Supreme Courts decision today in Garland v. Cargill, a case about whether a rifle equipped with a bump stock an attachment that transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a weapon that can discharge at a rate of hundreds of rounds per minute simply with one movement by the shooter is a machinegun, National Council of Jewish Women Government Relations and Advocacy Director Darcy Hirsh issued the following statement: Today the Supreme Court removed an important gun safety deterrent by invalidating the federal policy that classifies bump stocks as machine guns a policy that subjected owners to criminal liability
admin | June 15, 2024
As the world prepares to celebrate the secular holiday of Fathers Day through a barrage of Home Depot commercials featuring George Foreman grills and flash sales on fishing equipment at Dicks Sporting Goods, I am encountering an unfamiliar anxiousness. A holiday that once filled me with an overwhelming sense of pride as I would scour the aisles at CVS in search of multiple Fathers Day cards, because just one couldnt match his eclectic personality and dry sense of humor, now leaves me feeling broken. My father, Ned Goldberg, zl, died less than six months ago from metastatic prostate cancer
admin | June 15, 2024
Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham are not related yet talking to them, it feels like they are. The connection is palpable in the new movie Treasure, in which the celebrated British comedian and the Girls creator and star play a very special father and daughter duo, Edek and Ruth. The film is based on a book by Lily Brett about the authors journey back to Poland in the 90s with her father, an Auschwitz survivor
admin | June 15, 2024
Excuse me, let me move my cup, I say to the woman at the table next to me at my New York co-working space.
admin | June 15, 2024
In December of 1912, Nathan Goldfarb, a Jewish watchmaker in New York, had an affair with a boarder who was staying in his home named Minnie Schechter. After Goldfarbs wife, Lena, caught the wayward couple in the act, the pair absconded, leaving behind Goldfarbs three children
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