Posts Tagged ‘ shabbos ’

Children laughing, a baby’s muffled cry, the peaceful sounds of a Saturday afternoon, drift through the open window. This is New York – one of the liveliest, most turbulent cities in the world…

“Git Shabbos, Reb Hershel,” the gabbai says to me with a smile. “Minche?”

He has it down to a science, Reb Yossel the gabbai. Every other week he asks me the same question. He…

The house smells like a Friday afternoon. Ajax, some unidentified scent, and delicious Shabbos food. The washing-machine spins noisily, the little kids fight over a coloring book and the older kids fight…

From the comments on a Facebook invite for a traditional Friday night meal:

Host: “I need someone to help me with the zemiros.”

Token non-Jewish girl on the invite list: “What’s a zemiro?”…

It’s a winter Friday night, freezing cold outside but inside the small shul it is warm. All adults and children are on their feet facing the opposite side of the holy ark,…

The Chabad rabbi of Newport Beach California, Rabbi Reuven Mintz, believes that the estate of Joey Bishop, former member of the “Rat Pack,” rightfully belongs to Chabad. The girlfriend claims otherwise. The California Supreme…

At first glance it might seem like the Shabbos table of any Chasidic home. The candles are lit. At the edge of the table lies a colored parsha page from a pre-school child and a list of farher questions for the seven-year-old. The smell of steaming cholent wafts in from the kitchen. But some...
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Well, some people are still making money the good old-fashioned way: investment fraud. But it ain’t pleasant when you get caught. Chaim Citronenbaum, a Monsey resident, will do three years in the slammer.…