Posts Tagged ‘ shabbos ’

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?”

Overheard at Tu B’shvat meal:

Host…

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, singing ecstatically along with the chazzan…

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 Court decided this is one…

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. He is also now $1,683,903 poorer,…