The citizens of New York City, the Jersey Shore, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. are still reeling from the effects of what had formerly been Hurricane Sandy, but the effects of that storm have reached all the way to the...
Rabbi Mendel Ceitlin of the Gerson Katz Chabad Center of Metairie has just announced a five-week education series that begins tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31. The course will be taught on successive Wednesday nights and based on texts derived from chapters...
Efforts to organize a new Cub Scout pack at Congregation Beth Israel failed to achieve critical mass yesterday when Rabbi Uri Topolosky met with Southeast Louisiana Council’s Pelican District Executive Yoni Sunshine. Sunshine, an Israeli-born paid Scouting professional, organized a...
New Orleans residents have become quite adjusted to hurricanes and, sadly, so too have New Yorkers. While 2005, 2008 and 2012 brought Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Issac to the Big Easy, 2011 and 2012 have brought...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 20 rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel on Sunday night and Monday morning. The rockets landed in unpopulated areas and did not cause any injury or damage.
In response, Israeli airstrikes early Monday morning hit what...
NEW YORK (JTA) — JTA reviews the positions of presidential candidates Barack Obama, the Democratic incumbent, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on some issues of importance to the Jewish community.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Argentina’s Carolina Raquel “The Turk” Duer defended her World Boxing Organization super flyweight title for the sixth time. Duer, 34, won a unanimous decision over countryman Marisa Portillo last Friday before more than 4,000 fans...
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial in Rhodes was spray-painted with swastikas. The Holocaust Memorial to the Jews of Rhodes in the Jewish Martyrs Square — the old Jewish Quarter — was defaced Saturday on its six sides. The initials AME...
One of the lesser known facts about Rabbi Uri Topolosky of Congregation Beth Israel is that he is an Eagle Scout, who received his rank in Boy Scout Troop 613 of Silver Spring, MD. Now that his boys are of...
Just prior to Shabbat last Saturday, Anshe Sfard Synagogue administrators realized that one of two air conditioning units had been vandalized. Thieves looking to profit from the sale of copper tubing on the open market jumped a fence and removed...
