At a Friday night dinner in a New York City apartment in mid-July, young professionals celebrated Shabbat around long tables with familiar faces they hadn’t seen since college, and a lively routine led by Chabad campus representatives Rabbi Peretz and Chanie Chein, harking back to the popular campus Shabbat dinners at Brandeis University.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will veto a bill requiring school officials to consider religion and other family beliefs when approving taxpayer-funded tuition for special-education students at private schools, an administration official said.
Some of the first riders to use Omaha’s new bike lane started their trek at the Pacific Ocean — and will end it in the Atlantic.
Mordechai Ben David composed a new song for the Siyum Hashas of Jerusalem at Teddy Stadium. The song, Yachad Shivtei Yisroel, was arranged by Ami Cohen with Choir by Moshe Roth. Photography by Baruch Ezagui.
Surveillance video caught three African-American teenagers trespassing into a condo-apartment building and leaving moments later with two bicycles. The building, located on Brooklyn Ave. between East New York and Maple St., is predominantly Jewish.
Chabadnikim serving in the IDF who identify with the Meshichist element received a new guideline from the military today. They may no longer wear the so-called ‘Yechi’ yarmulkes.
Rabbi Avremy and Chaya Raskin recently returned to Vermont to change lives. They moved from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Brattleboro – a town tucked away in the southeast corner of the state two hours from where the rabbi grew up – to open up a Chabad-Lubavitch center serving a diverse and liberal community of families and seasonal residents who appreciate locally-grown produce and locally-owned shops half an hour from a popular ski resort.
A siyum was celebrated in Paris, France over the completion of the Shas in the Daf Yomi cycle – after seven and a half years. Rabbi Yechiel Kalmanson, Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, delivered the siyum.
Adam Douglas, 20, was at his brother Kurtiss’ house in Reno, Nev., on a Saturday morning when the brother came jogging back from synagogue to get him for prayer services.
43 Jewish children enjoyed their summer vacation at Camp Benyamin, a brand new camp run by Beth Loubavitsh of Paris. The campgrounds are located about 250 miles west of Paris in the city of Bournezeau – near the Atlantic coast.
Mayor Bloomberg has demanded that hospitals stop handing out baby formula to persuade more new mothers to breastfeed their babies.
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