Posts Tagged: Mezuzah
Investigator Says Maine Homeowners Wrongly Evicted Black Jewish Tenant After He Refused to Remove Mezuzah
A pair of Maine homeowners discriminated against one of their tenants because he was a Jewish man, a state investigator has found. Local NBC affiliate News...
Manhattan Landlord Sues Tenants for Allegedly Stealing Mezuzahs From Neighbors
A landlord in Manhattan is suing two tenants who allegedly stole Jewish doorposts, known as mezuzahs, from their neighbors' apartment doors, the New York Post reported on...
Examining the Mezuzah
According to the Biblical narrative, when the Children of Israel were still in Egypt they were commanded to prepare in various ways for the Exodus...
Tefillin and Mezuzahs: The Art of the Scribe
I am a proud father of nine children, six girls and three boys. Although our family has been graced with many bat mitzvahs, we have...
New Study Finds That, With a Little Care, Mezuzahs Don’t Spread Disease
Doctors at Maimonides Medical Center, in Brooklyn, have determined that mezuzahs, little Jewish prayer boxes affixed to the inside of door frames, do not spread...
Long Island Jew Claims Landlord Evicted Him for Refusing to Remove Mezuzah
An Orthodox Jew living in Long Island is claiming in court that his landlord evicted him after he refused to remove a mezuzah from his...
New technology Helped Cops Track Down Mezuzah Arsonist
A new technology can be thanked for helping to nab a crook in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this week. Career criminal Ruben Ubiles was caught on a security...
Police Apprehend Mezuzah Burning Suspect
Police have apprehended a man they believe committed a string of hate crimes in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to the New York Times, Rubin...
ADL Slams Brooklyn Mezuzah Torching as “Blatant Act of Anti-Semitism”
The Anti-Defamation League has condemned an act of arson in Brooklyn as a hate crime after a dozen Jewish residents of a Brooklyn apartment building...
Re-emerging Mezuzah
This is a Mezuzah that I found in the Jewish Ghetto of Budapest re-emerge before my eyes. History: The area consisted of several blocks of the old...
