Chabad West Hampstead held a powerful and rejuvenating community retreat recently at the East Hampstead Park Hotel, bringing ...

Oholei Torah held a vibrant and uplifting Motzei Shabbos event for young alumni, on Yud Kislev, drawing an exceptional ...

Why do Ashkenazi Selichot always start on a Saturday night? So therefore, as we now enter into our period of the High Holy days we pray that the Almighty will indeed bless us with Selichot, that we ...

Of course, the Gemara does not mean that one may cease observing Shabbat after davening Maariv and making Havdalah (without a candle) on Shabbat afternoon. One may (must, according to most opinions) ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rabbi Baruch Ackerman and New Springville Jewish Center will host a Traveling Chasidim today and tomorrow, as a few families from Monsey, N.Y., will lead a Chasidic Shabbat. A ...

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With the media buzzing interminably about John McCain’s still unnamed (and reportedly undecided) running mate, Michael Cooper of the New York Times found meaning in the timing of a campaign rally on ...