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The new store in Tel Aviv is having a lighting of the world’s biggest Lego Menorah this Sunday night, using a 136,000 brick Menorah created by North Miami Beach resident Yitzy Kasowitz of @jewishbrick.
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Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill to Expand Toll Relief for Florida Families
Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 6A, establishing the Toll Relief Program through the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), which will provide account credits to frequent commuters using toll roads across the state.
A CEO, An Awkward Bochur, and Yossi Farro Walked Into a Twitter Feed….And Tefillin
It’s one of those bizarre stories of of how social media can connect the rich and poor, and apparently the Chabad bochur with the CEO VIA the satire Twitter account.
Tragedy In Biscayne Bay As Jewish Woman Dies in Tragic Boat Accident
The tragedy unfolded in Miami Tuesday when an Orthodox Jewish woman suffered a boating accident in Biscayne Bay. The woman, later identified as Elaine Mehler from Englewood, New Jersey, was found by two people near Jungle Island and pronounced dead.
1460 Mishneh Torah code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides in Sephardic writing. In the chapter Bet HaBechirah, on the laws of temple and its utensils, the menorah is depicted with six straight branches, as described by Maimonides in his commentary on the Mishna. The illustration includes micrographic text annotations for each part of the menorah.
Grant Drives AI Research To Decipher Handwritten Jewish Manuscripts
The newly funded project, called “MIDRASH – Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script,” is the first ERC Synergy grant in Jewish studies and the first for computational manuscript studies.
JLI: Rabbi and Federal Judge on the Rabbinic VS Legal System
Join a federal judge and a rabbi as they compare notes on the legal ruling of Halacha and U.S Law in some pertinent cases.
SHAZAK: VaYeishev – Bad Times…Better Times…
Watch this weeks Shazak Parsha Production, with its spellbinding audiovisual storytelling of the parsha and Shazak style animations.
Shakeup In Surfside as Two Administrators and The Police Chief Suddenly Resign
The highly Jewish Town of Surfside is in for a rough shakeup this week as the Town Manager, Chief financial officer, and Police Chief, all resign within days of each other.
Coins From Antiochos IV, and The Time of Chanukah, Unearthed In Eretz Yisroel
A rare wooden box containing 15 silver coins dating to the reign of Antiochos IV, during the time period of Chanukah, was discovered in an excavation in the Darageh Stream Nature Reserve, overlooking the Dead Sea.
Chabad South Broward Chanukah Festival Main Seating Sells Out
Management at the massive 7,000 seat concert hall at Hard Rock theater in Hollywood, FL, have expressed surprise by the speed at which tickets sold out for the Chabad concert to be held there on Chanukah, featuring Ishay Ribo and Avraham Fried, saying they have never seen tickets sell this fast for any event.
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