Moshe Holzberg, a son of the two Chabad emissaries murdered in last November’s Mumbai terror attacks has his 3-year-old locks cut at a traditional upsherin ceremony which brought out thousands in Kfar Chabad, Israel.
Like everything else about his colorful life — which ended abruptly and violently in a hail of bullets on a Moscow street in early November — Shabtai von Kalmanovic’s large collection of Judaica has been both shrouded in mystery and subject to exaggeration.
In his lively introduction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the recent General Assembly in Washington, Leonid Nevzlin reminded the audience just how unexpected and unusual a role this was for him.In his lively introduction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the recent General Assembly in Washington, Leonid Nevzlin reminded the audience just how unexpected and unusual a role this was for him.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced that it has rejected a decades-old understanding that gave it only a quarter of all money raised in the United States for overseas causes, leaving the lion's share for the Jewish Agency for Israel.
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday decried a rise in hate crimes in the United States against African Americans, Jews and gays, documented in an annual report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
As Sarah Palin embarked on a tour for her just published book “Going Rogue,” she became the latest prospective Republican presidential candidate to criticize the Obama administration’s policy on Israel.