CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish man sitting in his car waiting for someone had his world suddenly rocked when his minivan was struck from behind. Eyewitnesses said that the driver that caused all the wreckage got out of his car and fled the scene.
Bay Area medical professionals and clerics have mobilized against attempts by a local anti-circumcision group to enact a citywide ban against the practice. If activists have their way in municipal elections this November, when voters will be asked to vote on the measure, circumcision of a boy under the age of 18 years of age for religious reasons would be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The city began offering a new card on Wednesday that lets people buy prescription drugs at big discounts, a step that could potentially increase drug sales and ease strains on the city’s public hospitals.
Friends and family of Nosson Deitsch OBM gathered this evening to officially dedicate a new parade office, dubbed the Central Operations Suite, which will provide a place for all the volunteers to sit and work on the Lag Baomer Parade.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After more than a year of relentless persecution by officers of the 71st Precinct against members of the Crown Heights Shomrim, they have apparently decided that this is still not enough, and have since escalated their efforts, launching a coordinated assault on the volunteer security organization.
We have been privileged recently in our Program, Ohel Chana in Melbourne, to have two senior Shluchim visit our shores and spend an evening farbrenging with us Seminary students. Baruch Hashem we have been greatly inspired by them and look forward to putting all this in practice as we finish our most inspiring and unbelievable year in Ohel Chana!
A total of 65 performers got onboard Tuesday, auditioning to be part of the MTA’s official Music Under New York program.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In a show of appreciation to the nurses working in Kings County Hospital, Rabbi Avrohom Leider, the director of Ahavas Chesed, hosted the nurses for a lavish lunch.
It shouldn’t be hard to spot the man leading the Jewish Unity Parade in Skokie on Sunday.
Tzeirei HaShluchim’s 13 years of success and the marking of 60 years of the passing of the Rebbe’s brother, Yisrael Aryeh Leib, were honored Tuesday night at a dinner and farbrengen event attended by many Anash members and Rabbonim from around Israel, and special guests Rabbi Shmuel Lew and Rabbi Hillel Dovid Krinsky.
No, I am not one of those brazen young women who walk down the streets of Brooklyn in steep necklines that beg for cover out of sheer embarrassment, or bare feet tipped brightly in red nail polish, peering out cheerfully from between flip flop separators.
Wendy Weiner-Runge, a religious Jewish mother of four from Minnesota, was charged for deceiving the state of Iowa on tax forms while trying to film movies there – a first time, non-violent offense. She was sentenced to ten years in jail in a Polk County courtroom by Iowa Judge Douglas Staska.
“Nakba is not a protest against settlements. It is not about 67 borders. It is about 1948. It is the expression of agony for the very existence of Israel,” Israeli Consul General Ido Aharonisaid at a breakfast Tuesday morning honoring a group of Israel’s wounded soldiers on a tour of New York City.
Researchers say cockroach infestations may be linked to the high rate of children with asthma in certain New York City neighborhoods.
Last week there was a Buffet Dinner in “Chabad Double Bay” for the Chabad Shluchim and Shluchos of NSW, Australia with guest speaker Rabbi Lipskar of South Africa who spoke about “The Challenges of Shlichus today”!
As the school year is quickly coming to an end YNS is now accepting registration for the upcoming school year. After relocating to New Jersey the yeshiva had a very successful and productive year.
Pictures from the Lechaim of Pacey Lipkind (Crown Heights) and Rivkah Shira Francis (Crown Heights) took place at Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights.
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