The Levaya of Reb Meir Itkin OBM

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Hundreds gathered in front of 770 early afternoon to escort Reb Meir Itkin OBM to rest. Reb Meir passed away at the age of 96 late last night.

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Participate in the Sefer Torah LiIluy Nishmas Dovid Dubinsky

The Ivy League Torah Study Experience

“Amazing, rejuvenating, intellectually stimulating, challenging, refreshingly honest…” That’s how a group of female college students described the five inspirational weeks they spent getting in touch with their spiritual roots and owning up to a heritage that is inherently theirs. At the Ivy League Torah Study Experience (ILTSE), a division of National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE), effectively coordinated by Mrs. Baila Hecht and ably assisted by Mrs. Cipi Junik, to meet the students’ individual needs, young women spanning the globe came together in a quest for learning about their Jewish identity.

The Ultimate Good Deed

Hasidic volunteers give faithful aftercare to Jews who die

Prof. Liviu Librescu grew up in Nazi-occupied Romania, immigrated to Israel and later relocated to Virginia, where he was killed in April in a Virginia Tech classroom.

A Hasidic group from Borough Park, Brooklyn, picked up his body and arranged a funeral service.

Representatives of that group were present for the autopsy of Auxiliary Police Officer Eugene Marshalik after he was gunned down in Greenwich Village on March.

Important News and Medical Update regarding Orah Meital Habosha

With Hashems help, We would like to thank everyone for all the good wishes, calls, Hachlatot and Mitzvot taken and being done Lezchut Orah Meital bat Bella for a full and speedy recovery. We are extremely touched and appreciative by the tremendous outpour of Chesed and Achdut shown by our community and from the greater Jewish community world-wide.

We want to give special thanks to the medical team from Medical University South Carolina headed by Dr. Joel B. Cochran for saving her life and stabilizing Orah Meital so that she was able to be transferred to New York. We also give our tremendous thanks to Dr. Phil Lanzkowsky, Medical Director of Schneider’s Children’s Hospital for accepting her and making all the necessary arrangements.

More in the Extended Article.

150 Israeli Backpackers Left Unaccounted For Following Peru Quake

Cuzco, Peru — Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Peru are working around the clock to locate 150 Israeli backpackers following a devastating 8.0-magnitude earthquake Wednesday night that left more than 450 people dead and at least 1,500 injured.

Lubavitcher Life Threatened

Jerusalem, Israel — Last Friday afternoon the phone rang in the offices of Yad Leachim in Jerusalem. The person on the other line asked to speak to Rabbi Binyamin Kluger (a Lubavitcher Chosid who lives in Jerusalem and is part of the anti-missionary department in Yad L’achim). When Rabbi Kluger took the call the person introduced himself as Hannania C. a member of a missionary cult in “Mevaseres malchus” that is headed by Mr Shimon Nochum, who threatened Rabbi Kluger with his life.

Woman Arrested In Fatal Hit-And-Run In West Hollywood

Los Angeles, CA — A woman was in custody Tuesday in lieu of $250,000 bail for allegedly driving a truck that fatally injured a man in West Hollywood, authorities said. Lindsay Rae Ellingsworth, 27, was arrested Monday at her office in Century City and booked for “hit-and-run causing death,” said Deputy Denise Fuchs of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

GILLIGAN’S ‘OY-LAND’

August 9, 2007 — Lost in a fog so thick and dark that they might well have been in the belly of Jonah’s whale, six Hasidic fishermen drifted off the eastern end of Long Island for 14 hours before they were finally rescued early yesterday.

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Miracle: Six Yeshiva Boys Helping Chabad Lubavitch Of The Hamptons Rescued After Stranded In Boat Overnight

Six young men who set out from Montauk for a two-hour excursion in a rented boat Tuesday afternoon spent the night lost in heavy fog until they were rescued Wednesday morning by the Coast Guard.

A crew from Coast Guard Station Montauk located the 18-foot Sea Fox bowrider-style boat at 6 a.m., two miles northeast of Gardiners Island.

The six boaters, identified as [omitted] who are from Brooklyn and Israel and are in their early to mid-20s, rented the boat from Uihlein’s Marina on Lake Montauk. They left a brief outline of their boating plans with a rabbi, Leib Baumgarten, director of Lubavitch of the Hamptons, and with the marina.

PETA Documents Cruelty To Chickens At Kaparos

Click HERE to watch a video taken by PETA at Kaparos in 2006.

PETA and other humane organizations receive many complaints from local community members about the treatment of animals and the unsanitary conditions during kapporos. We are attempting to work with regulatory and enforcement agencies to ensure that those organizing kapporos events in 2007 are in compliance with all relevant health and animal cruelty laws.