Fire Breaks Out in Sea Gate Shul
A fire raged through the roof of a Brooklyn synagogue Thursday morning during the holy week of Passover, officials said.
The Chabad Jewish Group That Connects Trump and Putin
he Port Washington Chabad, a Jewish community center on Long Island’s Manhasset Bay, sits in a squat brick edifice across from a Shell Gas station and a strip mall.
700 Left Without Pesach Hotel
Organizers of a Passover getaway for 700 New Yorkers say they feel passed over after a California hotel allegedly canceled their stay despite a $1 million deposit.
A Haredi Writer’s Open Letter To Anti-IDF Rioters
Dear Yerushalmi Faction member:
NYC Gets Strict With Mohels
The same day the city’s health commissioner confirmed that two mohels have been banned from practicing the risky circumcision ritual metzitzah b’peh, the health department quietly adopted a more stringent policy against mohels linked to newborns who develop herpes simplex virus-1.
Supreme Court Ends Israeli Woman’s Marriage To Comatose Husband After Decade-long Divorce
Jerusalem – Israel’s Supreme Court officially allowed a Safed women to divorce her comatose husband, ending a decade-long process.
Monsey, NY – Mandatory Rental Registry Launched In Rockland For Landlords Of Multi-Family Dwellings
Monsey, NY – Rockland County has implemented its fourth and final phase in its effort to crack down on illegal housing: creating a registry of all buildings that contain three or more housing units.
New Limitations On Shechita In Belgium’s Flemish Region
A cabinet minister in Belgium’s Flemish Region announced that a majority of lawmakers have decided to impose new limitations on ritual slaughter of animals in 2019.
US Chabad Rabbi Loses Appeal Against Deportation From Russia
A Russian appeals court affirmed the expulsion order issued against an American rabbi working in Sochi, in what a local leader of the Chabad movement called a “dark day” for Jews.
Rabbinical Court Works To Permit Marriage To ‘Mamzer’
The Be’er Sheva Rabbinical Court published a ruling that a person previously considered to be a mamzer was “permitted to marry an Israelite,” which is the official way of saying he is, in fact, not a mamzer.