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Jan 19 Singles Event Orthodox Union The Orthodox Union Singles Connection invites singles of all ages to a Beatles Extravaganza featuring “Come Together,” a Beatles tribute band, for a fun and exciting opportunity to meet new people. The recreations of the visual, vocal and instrumental experience of what was known as Beatlemania will take place at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, 5 East 62nd Street. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. The OU Singles Connection is a division of the OU Department of Community Engagement. Pre-registration is $20 online at www.oucommunity.org or calling 212.613.8300. Admittance will be $25 at the door. For further information, contact OU Community Services at www.oucommunity.org or call 212.613.8300. more
One of Maimonides’ lasting legacies was his attempt to systemize the specifics of Jewish belief. Consisting of thirteen statements, he gave our faith a form wherein we are able to point to specific basic beliefs that go to the core of our faith. The seventh one focuses upon the belief in the role of Moses in our tradition. more
IsraAID volunteers working together with a group of friends from the Five Towns who are Queens College students did a remarkable job rehabbing homes in the Rockaways. The group, led by Sari Gartner and Tziporah Pill, both of Lawrence, have prior experience in disaster relief. more
A chicken in every pot, getting up with the chickens, chicken out, running around like a chicken without its head and let’s not forget chicken soup! Chicken soup has been called the “Jewish penicillin.” The 12th-century Jewish physician, Rambam, started the chicken soup-as-medicine trend when, in his book, On the Cause of Symptoms, he recommended the broth of hens and other fowl to “neutralize body constitution.” more
Even as Israel experienced its heaviest snowfall in some areas in two decades this past Thursday, other areas are already seeing signs of spring, whose official date is the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat or Tu B’shvat, this year on January 26th. Before that date, though, things are heating up in Israel in anticipation of elections to be held on January 22nd. more
The three plagues of Parshat Bo can be summarized in one word: Darkness. The locusts “covered the entire surface of the land, making the land dark.” (10:15) The plague of Darkness speaks for itself. And the Death of the Firstborn takes place around midnight (12:29), in the darkness of the shadows of the night. Death, as those of us who have experienced loss know, is the ultimate darkness. more
In 1975, little Avraham, the four-month-old son of Sarah Nachshon, died of SIDS. His mother decided that he would be buried in the ancient Jewish cemetery of Chevron; no Jews had been buried there since the 1929 pogroms, and it had been desecrated by the Arabs. more
My name is Masha Nockenofsky. I am 18 years old and I’m an autistic child. My youngest brother is the same thing, too. If you are all wondering why I’m so different from everybody else in the world, here’s how it all started. more
According to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, a group of anti-Israel activists and journalists are engaged in a coordinated campaign to stifle criticism of controversial secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel by attacking the former Republican senator’s critics, according to emails obtained by the Free Beacon. more
The oldest resident of Long Island and possibly the oldest Jew in the world, celebrated her 112th birthday on Sunday at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. more
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