A government lawyer says a Pakistani court has ordered the release of the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks because it found no solid incriminating evidence and also a three-month detention period has expired.
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On Thursday, at the Chabad Center for Russian-Speakers in Montreal, directed by Rabbi Yisroel Sirota, two middle-aged Jews – Alex and Sergei – were entered into the covenant of Avraham Avninu with a Bris Milah.
A memorial in honor of the first Yahrzeit of Gedaliah Greenzayd, who was tragically killed one year ago by a snow plow on Kingston Ave., was held at The Rabbinical College of America this past Thursday night. Taking place in the Berger Auditorium, the room was full of his former classmates, as well as many who never even had the opportunity to meet him.
Over 60 alumni joined Rabbi Yudi and Rivky Steiner for a ‘night of memories’ in support of Chabad of George Washington University, which is located in Washington, D.C.
A brand-new, state-of-the-art ‘fly-car’ is on its way to Crown Heights, where it will join the fleet of vehicles being operated by the dedicated volunteers of Hatzalah. The vehicle’s purpose is to hasten emergency response times, when often every second counts.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Baruch Jacobson will lead a discussion on the topic – The Mishkan Within Each of Us.
A 15-year-old boy was killed Thursday afternoon when he tried to jump from one rooftop to another in Crown Heights. It appeared that he had been playing a game of tag, police said.
A fire broke out this morning at Beis Rivka girls’ school on Crown Street. Thankfully, there were no injuries reported.
Fake IRS agents have targeted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening jail in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency, a federal investigator said Thursday.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains clearly the saying of our Sages: yesh chochmo ba’goyim taamin, yesh Torah ba’goyim al taamin – there is knowledge/science in the nations, believe; there is Torah in the nations, do not believe. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
For the Jews of Chernigov, Ukraine, Purim provided a chance to escape from the war, tension and economic troubles that are engulfing their country. For a night, they were virtually transported to Israel, where they enjoyed an elegant Purim party arranged by the local Shluchim Rabbi Yisroel and Aliza Silberstein.
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Simcha Felder on ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show. Felder offered a detailed view of the controversy surrounding the Education Investment Tax Credit, the East Ramapo School District oversight proposal and his crime-fighting efforts in the legislature and personally.
This afternoon, at around 12:30pm, a Jewish-owned home on President Street between Schenectady and Utica Avenues was robbed at gunpoint by three African-American men who knocked at the door.
Over 200 people came together for an evening of awareness and inclusion for individuals with special needs at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights this past Sunday. The event, organized by the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, featured speakers who implored the crowd to look at everyone in our community as equal, even if we perceive them as being “different.”
The day after 30-year-old Nadiv Kehaty died, his friends gathered at the Crown Heights synagogue he helped found to decide how to help his wife and four young children.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rachamim (Oscar) Piperno, OBM, a longtime member of the Chabad community in Los Angeles, CA. He was in his mid 50s.
Rabbi Shlomo Besser, an activist dedicated to preserving the Jewish cemeteries of Eastern Europe, succeeded his father as the rabbi of Congregation Bnei Israel Chaim on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his parents’ home in July of 2014.
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