13-Year-Old Faces Possible Hate Crime Charges for Assault
A group of teenagers was acting rowdy and throwing rocks at people on Eastern Parkway. One of the teens was confronted by a Jewish man, who restrained him after he punched him in the face.
Daily Archives: May 6, 2016
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Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One With the Play-by-Play
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Acharei Mos. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why would the High Priest remove his dazzling clothes and put on simple, white clothing for his holiest moment of Divine service on Yom Kippur?
Scene of civil war-torn Lugansk, Ukraine.
Forgotten Refugees, Emissaries in Exile, Jewish Community Holds On
In the summer of 2014, Chana Gopin, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Lugansk, Ukraine, sat down to write the 150th editor’s letter of The World of the Jewish Woman, a monthly Russian-language magazine she founded 15 years earlier.
5-Cent Tax on Plastic Bags Poised to Become Law
You’ll soon be charged for every plastic bag you use at the grocery store: the New York City Council has approved a mandatory five-cent fee on all plastic shopping bags, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to sign the initiative into law.
Shabbos at the Besht: Wearing a Watch on Shabbos
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Binyomin Kriegsman, will lead a discussion on the topic – wearing a watch on Shabbos.
25 Years Ago Today: ‘Do All You Can to Bring Moshiach’
25 years ago today, on 28 Nissan, 5751 (1991), the Rebbe delivered an impassioned talk about Moshiach.
Weekly Story: An Investment for the Future
On his first Shabbos mevorchim in 770, the bochur was sitting in his place before 8:00 in the morning and studying a maamar. At 8:00, a member of the hanhalah came over to him and said, now is time for saying Tehillim. While this bothered him, he dutifully listened to what he was told to do.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe during yechidus, circa 1970s.
Community Member Launches Effort to Help Her Rabbi’s Sick Child
Ask anyone who knows him, and they’ll tell you the same thing: Seven-year-old Meir Samuels has the sweetest smile.
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