Photos: Over 800 Jews at National Jewish Retreat
Photos by Bentzi Sasson
The highly-anticipated National Jewish Retreat in Greenwich, Connecticut was an unprecedented success, with over 800 Jews from all over the world in attendance.
Daily Archives: August 24, 2011
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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
Surrounded by her siblings and mother, Esti Chayempour sleeps peacefully after being reunited with her family.
GREAT NECK, NY [CHI] — It is every parent’s worst nightmare, and for Rabbi Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour, Shluchim in Great Neck, Long Island, it came true this morning when their live-in maid walked out and vanished with their six-month old daughter Esti.
Maid Kidnaps Shluchim’s 6-Month-Old Daughter
Surrounded by her siblings and mother, Esti Chayempour sleeps peacefully after being reunited with her family.
GREAT NECK, NY [CHI] — It is every parent’s worst nightmare, and for Rabbi Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour, Shluchim in Great Neck, Long Island, it came true this morning when their live-in maid walked out and vanished with their six-month old daughter Esti.
Miracle Recovery of Terror Rocket Victim
Arutz 7
The scene of a rocket strike in Be’er Sheva.
A 20-year-old woman who was barely holding on to her life after Saturday night’s rocket attack now is breathing on her own, adding another miracle in the wake of Arab terrorist attacks on Israel.
NY1
The city is urging residents not to panic but to take basic precautions ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irene, which has strengthened to a category three storm.
NYC Begins Storm Preps Ahead of Irene’s Arrival
NY1
The city is urging residents not to panic but to take basic precautions ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irene, which has strengthened to a category three storm.
Judaism in a Suitcase Visits Banff
Banff Crag & Canyon
They call it Judaism in a suitcase. And it’s a good description when Rabbi Yossi Matusof opens up his bag and starts to pull out all the items he and fellow Rabbi Chaim Itkin are hauling with them all over Alberta.
40 Students from Chabad High School in Johannesburg Bicycling 400 Miles for Charity
Haaretz
Johannesburg Torah Academy
Jewish and black South African teens have come together for a joint, 400-mile bike ride to Durban under the auspices of the Cycalive outreach program, JTA reports.
1976: The Rebbe walks in to daven Mincha in 770 during the month of Menachem Av and pauses to give Tzedakkah in a Pushka held by a camper from the Gan Israel day camp of Queens. From the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov - Montreal.
Picture of the Day: The Rebbe and the Campers
1976: The Rebbe walks in to daven Mincha in 770 during the month of Menachem Av and pauses to give Tzedakkah in a Pushka held by a camper from the Gan Israel day camp of Queens. From the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov – Montreal.
CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.
Video: Day 4 of the Crown Heights Riots
CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.
New Volume on History of Chabad
Kehot Publication Society released a new Hebrew volume on the history of Chabad in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Italian News Crew Records Special Citron Harvest
Italian television station RAI sent a news crew to the citron orchards supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Moshe Lazar and Shmuel Rodal of Milan to cover operations at the Calabria fields that produce some of the finest fruit, known in Hebrew as the etrog, used by Jewish worshippers during the seven-day fall holiday known as Sukkot.
After Accident Driver Attempts to Flee, Gets Caught
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An accident on President Street turned chaotic after one of the drivers attempted to flee the scene – on foot, only to be chased down and apprehended not even a block away.
20 Years Since Riots, CH Has Day of Unity
NY Daily News
Jewish and black kids play together at block party at the corner of Utica Ave. and President St., where race riots broke out 20 years ago.
Black and Jewish residents of Crown Heights joined Sunday in a rocking block party on the streetcorner that was the epicenter of the Brooklyn riots 20 years ago.
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