A major New York newspaper is calling upon Mayor de Blasio to take a page out of Jerusalem’s book by supplementing the city’s emergency response fleet with specialized medical motorcycles manned by paramedics.
Following Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attacks at Brussels Airport and at a metro station, Chabad emissary Rabbi Menachem Hadad, spiritual leader of the Shomre Hadas Orthodox community in the city, said the Belgian authorities have “no understanding of security issues.”
Over the past few weeks there has been much speculation among members of the Crown Heights community that the erection of an Eruv in the neighborhood is imminent. An investigation by CrownHeights.info has determined that the rumors are indeed true: A new Eruv has recently been erected that encompasses a large portion of northern Crown Heights.
Children with special needs and their families really did have a joyous Purim this year. The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn hosted its annual Purim Party on Thursday morning, with over 120 children, siblings and parents in attendance.
A surveillance camera captured the terrifying moment when an electric scooter being driven in the wrong direction down a one way street in Borough Park hit a young Jewish girl who was trying to cross the street.
In a Purim gag gone horribly wrong, an unidentified 40-year-old Jewish man dressed up as an Arab, donned a red and white headscarf, and carried a Kalashnikov before bursting into a Chabad Lubavitch shul in Paris and shouting “Allahu Akbar” while still brandishing the weapon.
A group of young Jewish teens rushed out of school on Wednesday, March 16, and headed to the Hunterdon Regional Cancer Center (HRCC) to deliver packages. Chabad of Hunterdon County’s Teen Network (CTeen) brought “emoji” pillows, which they had spent their Sunday designing, to the patients at the HRCC.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shemini . This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the sign of a great person?
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Avrohom Rappaport OBM, one of the founding members of the Lubavitch community in Toronto, Canada. He was 89 years old.
Roughly twenty percent of Florida’s population is 65 and older. But that population isn’t all local: most moved to the state as retirees, leaving them without family nearby at times of illness or death.
