Acting isn’t an easy profession, all the more so when you are an Orthodox Jew. But to be an award-winning actor that’s also Shabbos-observant? Elliot “Eli” Schiff might be one of the only ones in the world. After winning not one, but two awards at this week’s SOVAs (Society of Voice Arts and Sciences), Schiff […]
We asked Chazan Aryeh Hurwitz, the official cantor of Chabad of Central Boca, seven questions about his recent experience singing the National Anthem at the start of a recent NBA game for the Miami Heat. 1) Where and how did you grow up Jewishly ? I grew up in a very wonderful Orthodox community of […]
A new documentary film, Women of Valor, showcases the struggle of Haredi women as they aim for inclusion in Israeli politics and in other prominent segments of society. It presents Esty Shushan in her work with Estee Rieder Indursky in the organization they founded, Nivcharot, as the two of them overcome personal slander, attacks and […]
Closed circuit television footage showed a 9-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy from Stamford Hill, London being picked up and then carried off by a gang. The boy had been returning home from school just after dark when the abduction took place. Although the distressed boy was later released by the gang, but not before the trauma […]
From Château Blanc on the political situation: Cuba is always a controversial subject, and we understand and respect the strong feelings that many people have about it. We ourselves are an apolitical entity that only hopes to help local Cubans and Jews manage through the difficult times today and pave a path to prosperity for […]
Police are still on the lookout for three teenagers, believed to be girls, who attacked Jewish children in Brooklyn this week. They slapped a 3-year-old boy across the face in the Clinton Hill neighborhood and then ran away. They then went to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where they approached a pair of Jewish sisters, aged 18 […]
