The beaming Head of Security and Law Enforcement for the City of Cape Town was standing with the rabbis at the Lag BaOmer parade on Sunday afternoon. When asked how many people he counted on his crowd ticker coming in from the Great Parade down the Sea Point Beach Front into the beautiful Green Point Stadium Park he just shrugged “oh, about 1,500…”
In September 2009, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to American Jewish leaders at the 92nd Street Y, he recalled that as a young ambassador to the UN, he was advised by the Lubavitcher Rebbe that he would be entering “a house of darkness and lies.” The Rebbe gave him a “mission to light a candle for truth and for the Jewish people,” he said.
Shluchim are slated to arrive in Staten Island, NY on Sunday from across the state of New York and the New England region, to assemble for the annual regional conference of Chabad Shluchim hosted this year by Rabbi Moshe Katzman and his wife.
Terrorists still fixate on mass transit, and the trains and ferries thousands of New Yorkers ride each day offer enticing targets, a counterterror veteran warned Congress Wednesday.
Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore’s, administrator and founder, Rabbi Ephey Rosenbloom was the MC at the 2nd annual Grand Lag B’Omer Concert and Fair on Sunday May 22nd, 2011 at Yeshivat Rambam.
Northeast Pennsylvania saw the largest Lag B’Omer celebration in its history on Sunday, May 22 in Wilkes-Barre, where the local Chabad community organized a day of Jewish Pride and community unity.
The Sanitation Department and the Mayor’s Office announced in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Tuesday a partnership with Housing Works for a new initiative to recycle old clothes, called refashionNYC.
R’ Binyomin (Yami) Lifshitz was re-elected chairman of the Vaad of Kfar Chabad by almost ninety nine percent of the vote! New members to be joining the Vaad are: R’ Gershom Ohana, R’ Shimon Rabinowitz and R’ Mendel Gurewitz.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — They ‘injured’ a car and a van, but managed to strike very little else. A dueling duo turned the intersection of Albany Avenue and President Street into their own O.K. Corral, firing over thirty shots at each other from opposite sides of the street.
A press conference held today by family members of a man badly burned in an arson attack turned into a shouting match when a village man called the family’s lawyer an anti-Semite for going against the grand rabbi.
After running into each other on Carroll and Kingston this morning, Dr. Eli Rosen and Rabbi Kalman Winefeld greeted each other with a warm hug and broke out in a dance to the song of ‘Bar Yochai’, clearly still in the spirit of Lag B’omer.
An officer in Pakistan’s intelligence service chose a Jewish center as a target for the 2008 Mumbai attacks and then helped launch a new plot against Denmark, according to the star witness in a terror trial in Chicago.
A good education is an asset that will stay with a student long after they graduate. Schools should focus on building character, teaching students how to grow into their own, so they can continue succeeding in their lives, no matter where life takes them. Teachers should inspire students with the practical skills necessary to be successful in the real world. This is the principle that led Mottie Wiener, CEO of DailySteals.com to sponsor the awards for teachers who participated in the first successful year of Menachem Education Foundation’s Data Driven Instruction program.
Summonses for unlawful bicycling are up 48 percent in New York City over last year.
A Brooklyn man who doused a tabby with lighter fluid and set it ablaze because he was bored will spend up to six years in prison before facing deportation proceedings, a judge ruled today.
Two Jewish brothers are still reported missing along with numerous others in the wake of the second-worst tornado in U.S. history, classified as an F-5.
In honor of the first Yohrtzeit of Nosson Nota Deitsch a short video was put together by a group of his friends showcasing the profound impact he had on all who knew him.
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