Video: Shliach Blesses Freed Doctor

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A nine-month nightmare ended for professor Cyril Karabus, a 78-year-old former pediatric oncologist, who was arrested in Dubai. Hundreds greeted the freed man at the airport, among them Chabad Shliach Rabbi Asher Deren – who blessed him with Birchas Kohanim.

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Photos: Chovevei Torah Hosts Yarchei Kallah

The Bochurim of Mesivta and Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah prepared for Shavuos with a full-day Yarchei Kallah. Together with member of Crown Heights Anash, they spent an entire Sunday immersed in Torah, listening to fascinating shiurim on various topics related to Matan Torah and the sugyos they are learning in yeshiva.

NYT: Brooklyn’s Champs-Élysées

Looking down Eastern Parkway from Grand Army Plaza’s Memorial Arch, past the Brooklyn Public Library, past the Botanic Garden and McKim, Mead and White’s Brooklyn Museum, you might be reminded of Paris and the broad avenues that radiate from the Arc de Triomphe.

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Room to Grow in Thornhill, Ontario

Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, has big plans to keep on growing. About seven years ago, organizers drew up blueprints to expand the sanctuary and social area. The former was completed, and now they have moved on to the latter—a social hall that will double its capacity, from 200 people to 400.