New DeScribe Video Highlights Opioid Use in Orthodox Community Trigger warning for adult content. If you or someone you know needs help contact Amudim at 646-517-0222 or visit them online at http://www.amudim.org. Parliament “Bans” Kosher Meat in its Restaurants A “de facto ban” has been imposed on kosher and halal meat in cafeterias and restaurants […]
Baruch Hashem: Orthodox Jewish Athlete Announces He’ll Represent Israel at 2018 Olympics An Orthodox Jewish athlete enthusiastically announced on Wednesday his selection to represent Israel in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea for the first time in his career. Boston, Massachusetts native AJ Edelman is Israel’s first-ever Olympic athlete in Skeleton, a […]
Dear Jew in the City, I’ve lived across the street from an Orthodox Jewish for family for 32 years. We have always gotten along and helped one another out. Can they be friends to anyone other than their religion? We also are getting a lot of Syrian Jewish in our town (by the Jersey Shore) and […]
Today, history was made, as the first Orthodox Jewish man qualified for the Olympics! Growing up Modern Orthodox outside of Boston, AJ Edelman always loved sports but never thought he would be going to the Olympics. He played hockey and refused a scholarship that would take him away from his yeshiva high school towards a […]
Seal From First Temple Period Found at Kotel Supports Biblical Accounts A rare, well-preserved piece of clay dating to the First Temple period with the Hebrew inscription “governor of the city” was recently discovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem. “This shows that already 2,700 years ago, […]
Child Whose Parents Were Killed in 2008 Mumbai Attack to Return to Chabad House The son of the Chabad emissaries killed in a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai will join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a trip to India later this month. Moshe Holtzberg, 11, was three years old when his parents Rabbi Gavriel and […]
