There’s an Orthodox media mystery developing around the anonymous new owners of the muckraking blog FailedMessiah, and growing signs the site’s harsh criticism of the Orthodox community may be permanently silenced.
In bright pink paint, the words “Life is Beautiful” are splashed in graffiti on a wall in New York’s High Line, next to a young 30-year-old woman named Faigy Mayer brandishing a paint roller with a mischievous grin.
The Internet has lit up with warnings that Johnnie Walker scotch whiskey is no longer considered kosher.
All Paneco wants to do is import Jack Daniel’s Black Label Tennessee whiskey certified as kosher, but it’s encountered a situation that even the sharpest rabbinical minds can’t seem to solve.
A special conference devoted to the subject of addictions within the Jewish community will take place in Brooklyn, New York in December.
An Iowa court rejected an appeal filed by the attorneys of Sholom Rubashkin (56), the jailed Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive sentenced to 27 years in prison for fraud and money laundering.
A Shlichus Feud in Washington, DC which spilled out into secular courts has been boldly profiled by the Washingtonian, a popular news magazine which gave its take on the fight between Levi Shemtov and Yudi Steiner.
A is a 30-year-old mother of four. In accordance with Jewish custom, she covers her hair with a hat or scarf, and wears modest clothing that doesn’t reveal her knees, shoulders or cleavage.
On Monday, January 25, Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, one of the big philanthropists in the Jewish world, stood before the top rabbis in Lakewood, New Jersey at a fundraising dinner for the largest yeshiva in America, and delivered a speech that shook the ultra-Orthodox community to its core.
From an “embassy” helping Jews, the Chabad House in Nigeria—the only one of its kind in central Africa—has become a ray of light for local Africans.
