“We don't take in Ethiopian children. We don't think you match our lifestyle and we're not sure about your Jewishness either.” This is what five young girls of Ethiopian descent were told when they arrived with their parents at the “Or Chaya” school in Petah Tikva.

Bentzion Black (Toledo, OH) and Alanna Duskin (Buffalo, NY)

Bentzion Black (Toledo,OH) and Alanna Duskin (Buffalo,NY)

Having eaten in kosher restaurants in America, London, and Manchester, Garry Mann has a basis for comparison when he’s sitting down for one of his regular meals at L’Chaim’s Restaurant in Glasgow.

Shimi Piekarski (Crown Heights) and Esther Bluming (Crown Heights)

L'Chaim Tonight Thursday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]

Levi and Rochel (nee Litzman) Isenberg (Crown Heights)

It only seemed natural that one of my first missions after being appointed head of the Israeli General Security Service (known as the Shabak) in 1988 would be to travel to the United States. A short while after I arrived at the hotel in New York, several Chabad-Lubavitch men, “chabadniks”, approached me and asked if I want to the meet the Lubavicher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

There was once a young man. He was raised in a good home filled with positive influences. He had the best education in a great community. His parents set him on a straight path towards success, but he had his own ideas of what he wanted from life. And so the downward spiral began. He started indulging in the “pleasures” of life… He demanded meat; he started drinking more wine than normal. His parents tried to curb his newly-formed habits and give him life advice, but to no avail. He declined to listen to them, and worse, he demanded that they fund his selfish habits! No matter what his parents did, he refused to turn his life back around. Left with no other choice, his parents are instructed by the Torah to bring him before the Beis Din (Jewish court) to have him sentenced to death. A tragic ending to what could have been such a promising life…

A Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by the city of Los Angeles to grant a conditional use permit and parking variance for a Chabad synagogue in a residential section of Van Nuys.