When word began to spread of the mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, the city”s Chabad rabbis mobilized to help, support, counsel, and comfort those affected. As of Tuesday, the death toll numbered 59, with more than 500 people wounded in the attack. When Rabbi Levi Harlig of Chabad Las Vegas Blvd. with his
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USAThe UJA-Federation of New York delivered a planeload of humanitarian supplies to the JCC in Puerto Rico and returned a stranded retired New York firefighter in time for his son’s wedding. Firefighters in the city of Yonkers collected the supplies that arrived in Puerto Rico on Sunday morning in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The
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USAAlexandria’s Menasce Synagogue has been placed on Egypt’s Heritage List, reports Nevine El-Aref Alexandria’s Menasce Synagogue The Menasce Synagogue is located in Mansheya Square in central Alexandria, its simple architectural style and façade being complemented by decorated arcaded widows. This week, more than 100 years after it was built, the synagogue has been added to
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRabbi Shlomo Riskin will step down from running the network of liberal Orthodox schools and seminaries he founded. The Israeli-American leader will retire in July 2018 as chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, a network of educational institutions that has pushed the limits of traditional Jewish law to be more inclusive of women and converts. Rabbi
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastTwo Las Vegas synagogues held special evening prayers and a GoFundMe page raised over $50,000 for an injured Jewish woman as the city’s Jewish community rallied to help in the aftermath of the mass shooting on the Strip. Chabad Rabbi Mendy Harlig, a chaplain with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, told the Chabad.org website
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USAUkrainian Police have arrested an anti-Semitic gang responsible for a long string of attacks against Jewish worshippers at the grave of Rabbi Nachman in Uman. Thousands of Breslov hasidim and others visit Uman for the High Holidays every year. The gang, which called themselves ‘Torpedo’, had been receiving instruction from a manager in Russia, who
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Force versus appeasement? It’s not an easy choice. We’re hearing Trump supporters blaming previous Presidents for giving in to North Korea, and Iran, and letting those countries develop what they wanted without using an overwhelming military advantage to end their dangerous aspirations. For Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack
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International, USAThe Trump administration has turned down a request from Puerto Rico that food stamps be made available for use in fast food restaurants and in other places that serve prepared hot meals, amd power cuts and food shortages on the island. Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria several weeks ago, leaving many of its
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USAJewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation. At least 59 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday night. It is the
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USAMIAMI — The United States has given Cuba seven days to evacuate 15 members of its embassy in Washington, a State Department official told reporters on Tuesday. Also, a 22nd American diplomatic employee has been confirmed as suffering in a mysterious sonic attack in Havana. The U.S. has been unable to determine who or what
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International, USABarred from traveling through Kuwait over his Israeli citizenship, Arab Israeli Facebook star Nuseir Yassin on Sunday blasted the country for boycotting the Jewish state in a video viewed over 400,000 times. Yassin was scheduled to fly from New York to India via Kuwait. When he arrived at the JFK airport he was told that
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Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsWASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress showed no interest Tuesday in pursuing gun control legislation, leaving Democrats to urge President Donald Trump to intervene in the aftermath of the shooting in Las Vegas. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said only Trump could change the stalemate in Congress, which has been unable to approve
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USAScreenshot – Jason Aldean Rare Country has just learned that Jason Aldean is canceling upcoming dates on his “They Don’t Know Tour” in the wake of the shocking events that took place during Jason’s Oct. 1 show in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. In a press release, Jason explained his difficult decision:
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sandra Rivera was down to her last cans of tuna and corned beef, her final precious bottle of water, when a man knocked at the door of her aunt’s house in Rincon, Puerto Rico. “A guy came, Harry, and said, ‘Sandra, (your daughter) Rebecca has arranged for you to get on
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