Tag: Chassidim
Largest Jewish publisher gets its own ZIP code
Until now, Kehot Publication Society—the Jewish publishing house with the largest active catalog—has had their warehouses, distribution centers and administrative offices scattered across the tri-state area.
Now, with the recent acquisition of a 100,000-square-foot facility...
Meron commission calls for Israeli Police Chief to resign
In its findings published on Wednesday, the State Commission of Inquiry into the 2021 Meron disaster found multiple Israeli officials responsible for the tragedy, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On April 30, 2021, 45 Israelis...
Chassidic singer ‘Dedi’ Graucher dies at age 62
After years fighting a serious illness, Oded Dovid (“Dedi”) Graucher died in Jerusalem on Sept. 11.
Graucher rose to prominence following the release of his second album, 1993’s “Ratza” with its epic title track making him famous...
Attorney seeks six months’ notice before Chassidic funerals in Upstate New York
Jewish law explicitly prohibits consulting soothsayers and fortune tellers. But that’s just what the Upstate New York village of Chestnut Ridge apparently expects a Chassidic cemetery called Har Shalom to do.
After traffic was held up for...
Daily Signal: New York Times doesn’t deserve Pulitzer for series on Chassidic schools
A late December 2022 New York Times article about Chassidic schools reaping a special-education funding “windfall” is “a plausible and powerful story, but almost every detail of it withers under scrutiny.” That’s according to a May...
The New York Times’ unethical war on Chassidic schools
Few members of the general public pay much attention to Pulitzer Prizes. Like most such competitions, they are subjectively decided and often say more about intellectual fashion than excellence in journalism and the arts...
Israel’s haredi economy is the ‘most important factor’ in its future success
Participants talked shop over coffee and catered meals, exchanged business cards and heard presentations on new companies and the problems they aim to solve during the daylong program. But this gathering of technology entrepreneurs...
Ukraine embassy says Jews will be unable to visit Uman for Rosh Hashanah
The Ukrainian embassy in Israel said in a released statement that due to Russia’s ongoing war, those who are hoping to make the annual pilgrimage to the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman in the city...
Guests at New York mayor’s mansion for Jewish Heritage Month note rise in anti-Semitism
“I was ready for just about anything when I came to an Eric Adams party, but a Chassidic guy singing Billy Joel was not one of them.”
So quipped New York City Council Member Lincoln...
New York City mayor hires Chassidic senior adviser in first such appointment
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Chassidic political activist Joel Eisdorfer to be his senior adviser.
Eisdorfer is the first Chassidic Jew to ever be appointed adviser to the mayor. The Borough Park...