Archive for May, 2008
Jewish Bath Rises on 15th St - The Brooklyn Paper - NY
Building a mikvah, which literally translates as “pool,” “takes precedence even by building a house of worship,” Rabbi Shimon Hecht’s Congregation B’nai Jacob on Ninth Street and Chabad of Brownstone Brooklyn said in a statement… At the groundbreaking on May 22, Hecht said the project …
Khashan Hammers Norton, Too
Last year, I wrote a scathing review of Augustus Richard Norton’s book, Hezbollah. Hilal Khashan from the American University of Beirut agrees with me. Writing in the latest Middle East Quarterly , Khashan notes that Norton’s book “fails miserably. Norton summarily dismisses Hezbollah’s terrorist cr…
Steady Hands - New York Post
Jewelery mogul Lev Leviev won’t be cutting diamonds Sunday. He’ll perform a bris for Zina Sapir, daughter of real estate mogul Tamir Sapir, and her husband, Rotem Rosen, CEO of realty giant Africa Israel USA, who welcomed a baby boy last week. Leviev arranged for it to be held at the Queens grave of…
Maimonides Day School Starts Accreditation Process - Jewish Review - OR
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Education Office of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch visted Maimonides Jewish Day School in Portland last month to help the school start the process to accreditation… Maimonides Director Devora Wilhelm said the school will pursue joint accreditation …
After Slurs, Donations Buy Synagogue More protection - Miami Herald - FL
Gifts of as much as $1,000 and as small as pocket change have flooded the Chabad of Parkland, and the money raised has allowed the synagogue to install floodlights on its grounds… In all, Chabad of Parkland has raised $10,000 thanks to donations from the high-profile (state Sen. Jeremy Ring made …
Boca Rabbi Extends Jewish Addicts an Invitation to Recovery - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
When Rabbi Meir Kessler set up an Orthodox synagogue in Delray Beach three years ago, a assured type of person consistently walked through the door: Jews seeking help with alcohol and drug abuse… Working with Chabad of Boca Raton, he began leading support groups and organizing Torah study sessions…
Community Musters a Minyan so Survivor can have Jewish Funeral - New Jersey Jewish Standard
After a signal from Drix last Thursday, Rabbi Ephraim Simon, director of Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County, e-mailed his congregation that a Jewish man had died but did not have the mandatory quorum of 10 Jews to bury him. When the funeral began at Beth El Cemetery in the early afternoon, Severi…
A Jewish Perspective on Dealing with Infertility
Question: I am trying to get pregnant. Do you have any advice or resources for me?
Answer: I’m sorry that it has taken me so lengthy to reply to your e-mail. I was very moved by your question, and wanted to take the moment to think through my response.
In Jewish terms, o…
A Definition of God
Question: Do you believe that God is more like a process rather than an actual being?
Answer: According to the Talmud, G-d is primal, undifferentiated existence out of which all differentiated existence emerged. The existence that emerged from “Him” is completely dependent on “H…
References for Resurrection and Reincarnation
Question: Where in the bible do you get indications that resurrection and reincarnation are possible?
Answer: Thank you for your excellent question.
Resurrection is one of the basic dogmas of Judaism. The concept is that, at the end of the end day, there will be a physical resurrection of the d…















