Following CrownHeights.info’s coverage of the latest assaults on Jewish children and adults, general media, including TV and newspapers, themselves covered the story. Police confirmed that 8 incidents are being investigated as unrelated and possible hate crimes.
The desire to be more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly is beginning to see some daylight at Chabad centers.
When Shani, a Crown Heights mother with an inquisitive and active 4.5 year old, was looking for ways to keep her son busy and stimulated after school, she came up empty handed.
At United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway, the Shmuel Shrage Middos Program put a new twist on Mishnayos Baal Peh by organizing a menu system for rewards.
Build and Destroy? These magical words held a group of young shluchim captivated as they participated in the launch event of Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe’s SibClix program during the Kinus HaShluchim. The program was hosted by Rabbi Levi Raichik, Yaldei’s Sibling Coordinator.
Itche Kadoozy, Chabad.org’s beloved puppet rabbi, interviews students and staff at the Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh as they mark 70 years since the institution’s founding.
The news of the recent spate of random attacks against Jewish residents in Crown Heights is spreading through the country like wildfire, and several media outlets have arrived in Crown Heights to report at the scene of the crimes.
Chasidic rock star Lazer Lloyd’s new single, “Ha’am Sheli” (My People), has gone viral. Early in October, Lloyd released the song on YouTube as part of the Jewish Unity Music Project, which he created to spread awareness of the conflicts within different groups in Judaism. The music video now has more than half a million views, and the number is increasing.
Last winter, Rabbi Moshe Weiss, a rabbi and entrepreneur from St. Paul, MN, appeared on Shark Tank, an ABC reality TV show where participants pitch their business ideas and investment opportunities to a team of entrepreneurs and business executives.
“I never fold my kids clean laundry. Just dump them all in their drawers.” “My five year old was very excited to show me the drawing she had made in school. It was of me lying in bed, looking miserable, with a basin at my side. I’m three months pregnant. Not sure what her teacher thinks.” “I think I just sent my daughter to school in her brother’s shirt.”
Welcome to the Global Jewish Shuk: a marketplace of dialogue and debate! The Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly is simply a whirlwind of just that: discussion, debate, dialogue, ideas (big & small) and a full on who’s-who of the “organized” Jewish world.
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