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15 Year Old Fight put to Rest with New Letter

In the storm of emotions following the Rebbes Passing on the 3rd of Tammuz in 5754, a group of over 30 individuals in Crown Heights, took it upon themselves to summons the administration of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, and Agudas Chasidei Chabad to a Din Torah before the Crown Heights Beis Din, over what they alleged was matters pertaining to a will supposedly left behind by the Rebbe.

NY Times: News Sites Rethink Anonymous Comments

From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed.

Bochurim Arrested Shabbos, Walked Down Kingston in Cuffs

Handcuffs. Illustration Photo.

It was a very bizarre scene which unfolded on Kingston Avenue on Shabbos afternoon. As people were heading to Shul for Mincha, 4 Bochurim were being taken by police officers in handcuffs down Kingston and to the police station.

Why did they have to Daven in the Hallways?

A reader sent in the following pictures from 770, they were taken at 11:00pm last night, Wednesday, when he went to Daven Maariv. He said he was quite surprised when he saw everyone Davening in the hallways, and even more surprised when he found out why.

Today: Yohrtzeit of Ari Halberstam HYD

Ari Halberstam HYD

On March 1, 1994, a gunman in a car opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, critically wounding two young men and injuring two others.

The lone gunman, driving a blue Chevrolet Caprice equipped with a submachine gun, two 9mm guns, and a “street sweeper” shotgun, pursued the van full of terrified students across the bridge.

He fired in three separate bursts, spraying both sides of the van. He then disappeared into traffic as the van came to a stop at the Brooklyn end of the bridge.

The injured Yeshiva students were among dozens who were returning from a Manhattan hospital where the spiritual leader of the Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, had undergone minor surgery.

Our Cleaning Lady who Stole from Us

by Bentzion Elisha

Random items appeared to be missing from our apartment.

Could it be our sweet hardworking cleaning lady who came highly recommended by neighbors who had her for the last 7 years?

After discussing the matter with our parents , my wife and I concluded it just couldn’t be her….

‘Creepy Caller’ Continues ‘its’ Sicko Calls

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Residents be warned, after receiving tens of new complaints from Chabad women it seems that the creepy caller, which we first reported about a month ago, is back and up to his same old sick tricks.

Police on a Purim Ticket Blitz

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Despite ‘reports’ that police promised to ‘ease up’ on Purim, many Crown Heights residents couldn’t help but notice the very opposite. White NYPD cars were out on the avenues and streets pulling over motorists on the Jewish holiday.

Schools Join in Raising Chabad Girls to Higher Standard

by Yonit Tanenbaum

Illustration Photo.

In an effort to create a universally accepted standard for today’s Bas Chabad, Lubavitch girls’ high school administrators across North America have joined forces in creating a uniform set of standards for Bnos Chabad, to be instituted collaboratively during the coming months.

My visit to Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin in Prison

by Rabbi Shalom Gurewicz

My job in Kashrus takes me to Cedar Rapids, Iowa every month. Knowing that Sholom Mordechai is sitting in prison there, I applied last month to visit him. I was approved and visited him yesterday.

He was so happy to see me besides for the fact of just having a visitor, he had also been placed in solitary confinement the night before and nobody including his wife and attorney knew about it yet and he was not allowed to make calls.