After years of court battles concerning inmates religious rights, Judge Patricia A. Seitz, of the United States District Court, ordered federal monitors to oversee that Jewish inmates in the Florida system be ensured to receive kosher food.
New York State Senator Jesse Hamilton, a Crown Heights resident, met with Yosef Rachimi, a Lubavitcher Bochur who was targeted in a firebomb attack in Manhattan last Friday while doing Mivtzoim.
At the filming of a movie scene in front of Oholei Torah this morning, the school’s Office Administrator, Rabbi Shlomo Nelken, approached the film’s Jewish producer and offered him the opportunity to put on Tefilin – which he readily accepted.
The historical building of the Grand synagogue in Kaluga, Russia, was opened after renovations on Tuesday, October 8th. The opening marks almost 90 years since the last time the synagogue welcomed Jewish worshipers through its doors.
Yesterday, Monday, October 12, Director of Chabad in Mineola, NY, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, joined a group of pilots and community activists in several aircraft for a ‘fly by’ over Long Island, in a demonstration of support for Israel, as well as in honor of the Year of Hakhel.
A frightening scene where body which appeared lifeless and sprawled out in front of Oholei Torah, the neighborhoods largest boys’ school, was actually part of a filming of a TV show earlier today in Crown Heights.
A Jewish man sitting on an Eastern Parkway bench was assaulted by a Black man in an unprovoked attack. Bystanders and Shomrim apprehended the suspect.
Police have released surveillance video in connection with the firebombing incident in Manhattan on Friday in which two Yeshiva students were believed to have been targeted. Police are certain that this is not the case and it is no longer being considered a hate crime.
Tonight, Yad L’Achim will be hosting a special event dealing with the dangers of cults and missionaries. For the first time in New York, hear from a veteran and expert in counter cult tactics, as well as from a victim – The Mahara”m Schiff’s Grandson – who was saved by Yad L’Achim.
Three Israeli’s were killed in two simultaneous attacks in Jerusalem neighborhoods of Armon HaNetziv and Geulah. Over 20 others were reportedly injured, a number of whom are still listed in critical condition.
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