These two photos were taken during the Lag Ba’omer parade in 1987. In one photo, the ‘elders’ of Crown Heights sit in a designated area behind a police barricade to watch the parade. In the other, the yellow school bus that would take students to the Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway, decked out in signs and banners, travels along the parade route. Full pictures in the extended article.
It’s Thursday afternoon, and Richard Ness, a 66-year-old Montreal textile executive married with two adult children, sits in his car, a silver European import. The backseat is piled high with bunches of fresh flowers atop a mound of burgundy boxes packed with food. He is on his way to bring Shabbat packages to a list of weekly recipients.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today released the results of an unprecedented worldwide survey of anti-Semitic attitudes. The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism surveyed 53,100 adults in 102 countries and territories in an effort to establish, for the first time, a comprehensive data-based research survey of the level and intensity of anti-Jewish sentiment across the world.
A graffiti artist was caught mid-act and arrested last night as he was defacing the side of a Crown Heights building with spray-paint, thanks to the swift action of Shomrim and the NYPD.
Back in the days of swords and spears the Talmud discussed regulations that seem to provide precedent for modern-day gun control. Today, the debate rages afresh. Join this lecture, delivered by Rabbi Dr. Michael Broyde at the National Jewish Retreat, for an intriguing look at how ancient Talmudic law is more relevant today than ever before.
Thousands of men, women and children from throughout South Florida are expected to arrive at Marlins Park on Sunday, May 18, 2014, the festive Jewish holiday of Lag B’omer, to express Jewish pride, joy and unity.
Many countries have nuclear weapons, and many more want them. Only one, though, has its neighbors and the world terrified. That country is Iran.
Rabbi Shmuel Hahn of Crown Heights is sitting Shiva after the passing of his brother, R. Yosef Zalman, OBM, at 1002 44th St. Apt. #3T [corner 10th Ave.] in Borough Park. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim.
Preparations for the great Lag Ba’omer Parade are well underway, as hundreds of volunteers work feverishly to make sure that the tens of thousands of children attending will have the time of their lives amid a remarkable display of Jewish pride.
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