It is a fundamental requirement of Jewish law that all Jews place a mezuzah on the doorpost of their home. Jewish law actually requires that it be placed on the right side of every room in the home–excluding the bathroom. A mezuzah is a piece of parchment which contains two handwritten paragraphs from the Torah. [...]

A Stratford woman will be allowed to keep her religious symbol on the door frame of her condo. Board members at the California Condominiums had told Barbara Cadranel that she would be fined $50 per day for the mezuzah she had attached to the frame of her door. A mezuzah is a small prayer scroll [...]

After reciting blessings in Hebrew, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, placed a mezuzah, the parchment prayer scroll that marks a Jewish home, at the entrance of the modest but comfortable room where members of the Jewish faith can now find solace at University of Miami Hospital. Stuart Miller, UM trustee, had the honor [...]

When Much Shelist  principal Steven P. Blonder heard that residents at Shoreline Towers Condominiums ran into trouble when hanging mezuzahs in their doorways, he wanted to get involved. “What intrigued me, first, in this day and age, was that a condo association would prohibit the hanging of a mezuzah,” he said. “From a common sense [...]

In Oprah’s next chapter on the Oprah Winfrey Network, the world reknowened TV personality shares her experience of visiting the close knit hassidic community in Brooklyn. In this interview, the celebrity talks about one of the things that she found most meaningful on her visit, the Mezuzah. Oprah’s visit to hassidic brooklyn, Oprah talks about the [...]

Brooklyn, NY – The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is probing a string of mysterious mezuzah snatchings at the Trump Village Apartments in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, police sources said. Since December, the sneaky thief has ripped off 10 of the $60 mezuzahs, encased Jewish sacred scrolls secured to door frames — on the 15th, 18th [...]