admin | December 30, 2021
The Hebrew word masbia means to satiate. Fittingly, its also the name ofa Jewish nonprofit that came to Greenville yesterday to provide satiating quantities of free halal meat to newly arrived Afghan immigrants, among others
admin | December 30, 2021
Natalia Tsvibel is a whirling dervish of a teacher. Moving quickly around the room at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, eyes wide and arms spread wider, she speaks rapidly in Russian to the 30-some people seated around her in family groups: parents, grandparents and young children
admin | December 30, 2021
Earlier this month, Golden State Warriors superstar Steph Curry set a new NBA record for most made 3-point baskets when he drained number 2,974 in a game against the New York Knicks. On Dec. 28, he hit number 3,000 in front of his home crowd at San Franciscos Chase Center.
admin | December 26, 2021
Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have enabled the town of Blooming Grove to tax property sales and use the proceeds to buy land it wants to conserve or the development rights to those tracts. The proposal was nearly identical to a conservation bill for the neighboring town of Chester that Hochul's predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, vetoed in 2019 because of accusations that it was intended to thwart housing development for the growing Hasidic community
admin | December 26, 2021
Dr. Chana Wircberg, who grew up in a Chabad Hasidic home and graduated in May 2021 from New York Medical College, sees her work as a physician as part of her religious outreach work. (Courtesy of Touro) RENEE GHERT-ZAND , JTADecember 23, 2021 Orthodox Brooklyn native Chana Wircberg always knew she wanted to be a physician.
admin | December 24, 2021
More than a hundred thousand ultra-orthodox, Hasidic Jews live in New Yorks Brooklyn. Most of them have Hungarian ancestors, who were forced to live their birthplace during the dark ages of the 20th century. In the New World, they rebuilt their community but did not forget where they came from
admin | December 24, 2021
In my work as a reporter in the New York Bureau of a Japanese newspaper, I used to periodically interview Henry Kissinger. Every couple of years, for nearly two decades, Id accompany a colleague from Japan and pay a visit to Kissinger Associates on Park Avenue. In much of East Asia, Kissinger is still viewed as a wise man and a figure of great historical importance, and these interviews were a big deal for our newspaper
admin | December 22, 2021
The benefits are two-fold supplying more housing and bringing back foot traffic to stores and restaurants. In addition, the city can do this at a minimal cost to the taxpayers. City Council discussed this last Monday and it seemed as if the council members, City Manager Ed Shikada and other city employees didnt know that Burlingame and Mountain View were already turning parking lots into housing at a low cost to their cities
admin | December 4, 2021
A Lebanese-born Muslim man was reportedly investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security after posing as a Hasidic Jew to marry a Brooklyn girl while claiming to be a US spy to protect his wild ruse.
admin | December 4, 2021
(New York Jewish week via JTA) Moshe Feldman, a beloved doctor in Crown Heights who for years tended to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, has died at 80. Feldman was a pediatric specialist who practiced medicine for nearly 50 years in the Bronx and later in Crown Heights
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