Talk about a Jewish diaspora.
Cut off from the Manhattan mainland and its very Jewish heartbeat, the Jews of Roosevelt Island may be the least-known Jewish community in the area.
For three millennia the land of Israel has been at the heart of the Jewish people; the Homeland from where the ancient traditions, culture and values emanated. The state of Israel has served as a refuge for Jews the world over, a country rebuilt following the horrors of the Holocaust on the principles of freedom and democracy.
This past Motzaei Shabbos, Keren Simchas Chasson V’kallah held a Melave Malka and Chinese auction. Oholei Torah chose to ban the event for students of the Zal at threat of expulsion. Certainly, no student should ever disregard the orders of the Hanholo, with or without threats of expulsion. Further, when the Hanholo permits a Bochur to attend, it is self understood that he can only attend after Seder HaYeshivah. I am quite surprised at the Hanholo’s decision however, because the evening had a lot to offer.
NEW YORK [WABC] — A combination of two weather systems will roll into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States later today and tonight.
The feature which is the stronger of the two, a low pressure system, is destined to slide along the Southeast Coast and exit the East Coast late tonight via the Carolinas.
Monday night, two Lubavitcher performers, sang for over 200 terminally ill children and their families in Lakewood, NJ. Avraham Fried and Yossi Fraenkel from Crown Heights both volunteered and made the hour and a half drive to the concert.
Members of Girl Scouts Troop 3131, the first Jewish troop in the national organization’s almost 100-year history, hold their meetings at Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Side in New York City.NEW YORK — The girls of Troop 3131 are just like those at any of the hundreds of thousands such groups around the world: They wear uniforms, earn merit badges, and at last Sunday’s troop meeting over an art project devoted to a recent holiday, told each other about powerful women in their families.
Members of Girl Scouts Troop 3131, the first Jewish troop in the national organization’s almost 100-year history, hold their meetings at Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Side in New York City.
NEW YORK — The girls of Troop 3131 are just like those at any of the hundreds of thousands such groups around the world: They wear uniforms, earn merit badges, and at last Sunday’s troop meeting over an art project devoted to a recent holiday, told each other about powerful women in their families.
The Roetter and Azoulay families invite all women and girls to come together for an evening of inspiration and a Siyum Mishnayos marking the shloshim of Mrs. Pesha Leah (nee Roetter) Azoulay OBM. A resident of Crown Heights, Pesha was tragically taken from us in a car accident, together with Avrohom Dovid Liberow OBM.
Sneak preview teaser scene from our upcoming release, “The Karrupter”, the tenth episode in the incredibly popular AGENT EMES DVD series for Jewish families. It is scheduled to be released this spring.
The family of Rabbi Zalman Liberow, who was badly injured in the tragic accident that killed his son Avrohom Dovid and Pesha Leah Azoulai, were somewhat disappointed to hear of a setback in his condition.
While eagerly awaiting his return to NY, his recovery seems to have taken a slight step backwards. While doctors are working hard to improve his condition, the hope for a return to NY this week seems to have faded away.
Brooklyn's 81st Precinct probed by NYPD for fudging stats; felonies allegedly marked as misdemeanorsBROOKLYN — A Brooklyn precinct is under investigation for manipulating statistics to make its cops look like better crimefighters, the Daily News has learned.
Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct probed by NYPD for fudging stats; felonies allegedly marked as misdemeanors
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn precinct is under investigation for manipulating statistics to make its cops look like better crimefighters, the Daily News has learned.
Two probes are centered around whether Bedford-Stuyvesant’s 81st Precinct recorded felonies as misdemeanors and refused to take complaints from victims – all in an effort to drive down the crime rate, sources said.
This Thursday, February 4th 2010, the eve of the 21st of Shevat there will be a special women’s evening hosted by Chabad of Flatbush. The evening is in honor of Rebethein Chaya Mushka’s Yahrzeit and Avrohom Dovid A”H Liberow Shloshim. The event is scheduled to start 8pm at Congregation Eitz Chatim, 1643 East 13th St, between Ave P and Kings Highway.
Eliyahu Ezagui goes on trial in Brooklyn federal court today, Tuesday. He is being accused of scamming families in the Crown Heights community in an alleged $18 million mortgage swindle.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs Chana Siev of Tzfas, Israel on the 18th Shvat 5770. Mrs Siev, 52 was a teacher in the local Chabad school, Ohr Menachem.
She is survived by her husband, Shliach Rabbi Mordechai Siev, the outreach program director at Ascent; her children Yaakov (Crown Heights), Rivka, Nechama, Tamar and Moishe; and 3 sisters.
They will be sitting Shiva at their Tzfas home. Condolences can be called in to +97246974390
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
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