YWN interviewed Shrage Feller, who is the owner of the Woodridge Pizza Store – which burned to the ground in a horrific fire on Sunday July 4th, 2010. Shrage tells us that thanks to the help of so many people, he is proud to announce that his new store will be opening this coming Sunday, August [...]

These are an elegant appetizer – particularly nice for Sheva Brachos or just a fancy weeknight meal for your lucky family.  Crepes:  4 eggs  1 cup flour  1 cup water  ½ teaspoon salt  ½ teaspoon sugar Mix eggs and flour well. Stir in all the other ingredients. Spray a pan (preferably non-stick) other cooking spray and place over medium-high heat. Cover bottom [...]

This is the latest segment of the new weekly video series from Rabbi Stulberger – You’ve Been Called to the Dean’s Office. It’s a short (four minute) message on a timely Torah topic. This week’s message: “Making it Simple.”

V’ragl’cha lo batzeika zeh arba’im shana (8:4) In mentioning that the shoes of the Jewish people miraculously didn’t wear out during their sojourn in the wilderness, the Torah states explicitly (29:4) that they wore shoes during their travels through the desert. How can this be resolved with Rashi’s comment on our verse that the feet of [...]

Wrapped in Israeli flags, the coffins of six Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Romania on Monday were carried off a Boeing airplane Friday morning. Chief Military Rabb Brigadier General Rafi Peretz – a helicopter pilot himself – participated in the ceremony that took place on the landing strip at the Tel [...]

A bill that would provide health care coverage for thousands of September 11th first responders was defeated Thursday by members of the House. The $7.4 billion James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act failed to gain a two-thirds majority vote. The move was a way of preventing Republicans from attaching other amendments to it. However, some say [...]

A Grad-type Katyusha rocket fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck close to an apartment building in a residential area of Ashkelon on Friday, while two mortar shells exploded in the western Negev just a few hours later. The Katyusha rocket hit the populated neighborhood just after 8:30 A.M., causing some damage to the nearby [...]

At a briefing today to discuss the administration’s efforts to rescue the auto industry, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs took on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh—and every other critic “sitting in the cheap seats” –for criticizing the rescue of General Motors and Chrysler as a “government takeover” that smacks of socialism. Told by a reporter [...]

CNN’s Talya Minsberg filed this report: Most religious dietary guidelines allow individuals to maintain a sense of holiness in their daily lives. For many Jews, that sense was shattered in spring of 2006, when an Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa was raided and found to have hundreds of illegal immigrants and dozens of violations, from [...]

China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Depending on how fast its exchange rate rises, China is on course to overtake the United States and vault into the No.1 spot sometime around 2025, according [...]