admin | August 15, 2021
(New York Jewish Week/JTA) Kathy Hochul, who is set to succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is no stranger to the New York Jewish community.
admin | August 15, 2021
A rattletrap Jewish group home that packed scores of teens into two houses on Staten Island has infuriated neighbors and prompted a Fire Dept.
admin | August 15, 2021
New York Jewish Week/JTA Kathy Hochul, who is set to succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is a familiar face for many in the New York Jewish community. Cuomo resigned Tuesday, a week after a state investigation concluded that he sexually harassed 11 women. He had faced intense pressure to step aside, including from US President Joe Biden, or face impeachment.
admin | August 7, 2021
MONROE - A judge has ordered the immediate closure of a Hasidic girls school that opened in a house without town approval and kept operating after the building inspector issued citations and demanded it close. State Supreme Court Judge Robert Onofry approved Monroe's request for a temporary restraining order on Thursday, three days after attorneys for the town and property argued before him in a conference call. The order requires the school to close while the underlying dispute plays out in court.
admin | August 7, 2021
Actor Dave Davies, the star of ''The Vigil'', said he didn't succumb to stereotypes while playing a grief-stricken Jewish man in the horror movie. ''The Vigil'', which comes from debutante filmmaker Keith Thomas, is set in Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community. It follows a man, named Yakov Ronen, who is tasked to sit as a Shomer, the ritualistic practice of looking after a dead body over the course of one night
admin | August 7, 2021
By the time you read this column, Alta Fixler may no longer be with us in this world. Alta is a 2-year-old who is severely disabled.
admin | August 7, 2021
By Yehezkel Itkin Chabad rabbis from across the former Soviet Union pose for a group photo in Almaty, Kazakhstan, July 29, 2021. (JTA) For Chabad-Lubavitch, major events arent over until they take a group photograph. The tradition, covering the international Hasidic movement, creates much more than a souvenir.
admin | August 7, 2021
The parents of a two year old girl with serious brain damage have enlisted politicians in the US and Israel to lobby the UK government after exhausting the available legal remedies in their bid to stop doctors withdrawing life sustaining treatment. Mr Justice MacDonald ruled in the High Court last May that Alta Fixsler, who suffered a severe hypoxic brain injury at birth, has no hope of improvement, that she suffers consistent pain, and that it would be in her best interests to be allowed to die.
admin | July 30, 2021
In 1942, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchikwho a year before had succeeded his father as one of the chief Talmud instructors at Yeshiva Universitydelivered a speech at a large communal dinner celebrating the educational institutions of the Lubavitch asidim. The speech, delivered in Yiddish to an audience made up primarily of Lubavitchers, was an encomium to their leader, Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn.
admin | July 30, 2021
(RNS) A 2-year-old girl has been sentenced to death by a British court. Alta Fixsler was not condemned for any crime she committed, but because British doctors and jurists feel that her best interests will be served by not allowing her to live
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