Police identified Julio Acevedo, 44, as the suspected driver of the BMW that plowed into the two expectant Brooklyn parents, Nachman and Raizel Glauber, killing them both early Sunday. The couple, both 21, were in the back of a cab on their way to a hospital after 7-months-pregnant Raizel experienced pains.
Meet Richard Bernstein, Richard ran 17 Marathons and completed the Ironman Triathlon, note: Richard was born blind. This past Thursday 150 Friendship Circle volunteers gathered at the Jewish Childrens Museum for an evening of inspiration and fun.
Tzivos Hashem, in partnership with Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch Publications, has released a new, illustrated children’s Haggadah, which incorporates insights by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, culled from his classic Pesach Haggadah.
Twelve years and one week ago was the Yohrtzeit of Yosef Chaim Paley, just a few weeks shy of his Bar Mitzvah. His mother, Mrs. Leah Paley penned a powerful letter following a week filled with tragedy capped [hopefully forever] with the horrific news of the tragedy in Williamsburg on Motzai Shabbos. In her letter she pleads ‘cant we all just get along?’
Camp Gan Israel, Parksville NY is happy to report that the Bar Mitzvah Division has been a great success. And it just keeps on getting better with the announcement of this years head staff.
Recently, the Chabad House of Greater Boston celebrated the dedication of a new Sefer Torah, written in memory of Moshe Shimon Brown, a member of the Chabad Boston Community and a dedicated friend of the Chabad House. The new Torah was sponsored by his family.
A proposal by Russian President Vladimir Putin for solving a bitter, decades-long legal battle over the late Lubavitcher Rebbe’s library, long held in Moscow, has pitted Russia’s Chabad-Lubavitch community against its U.S. brethren.
A project 10 years in the making opened up this Sunday. The brand new Chabad House, for UVa students and the Charlottesville community, opened with the Shluchim celebrating their three year old sons upshernish.
Hope turned to deeper mourning today after a baby delivered by C-section following a horrific hit-and-run crash in Williamsburg died one day after his parents.
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