Project TEAM took center stage in preschools around New Jersey and will be available for the first time at the Kinus HaShluchos to be licensed nationally. Project TEAM, short for Torah Approach to Emotional Awareness and Middos, is a project of Tzivos Hashem.
A violent parolee who killed a beloved Brooklyn liquor-store clerk was sentenced to 35 years in prison today.
When there’s trouble on the tracks, transit workers turn to police, firefighters, paramedics — and The Rabbi. There’s no need for his full name. Anyone who has operated a train, welded rails or directed traffic from a radio tower in the last three decades probably knows Rabbi Harry Berkowitz.
To the best of our knowledge a music video like this has never been done, and its success can be measured in the 21,000 views it received on YouTube. CrownHeights.info is now featuring a unique look behind the scenes and into the making of Benny Friedmans ‘Maaleh Ani’ music video.
Police arrested nine Arabs from east Jerusalem over the past week in connection with a snowball attack against two haredim during the snowstorm a week and a half ago. Jerusalem received over 20 cm of snow in the biggest storm since 1992.
Author Jonathan Zalman prepared a story in long-form for the Tablet Magazine in which he decodes a story of the Rebbe with famed World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer.
The Chabad community in South Broward, Florida and Jewish community in Toronto, is still reeling following the shocking and senseless crime which claimed the lives of two of their ‘snowbird’ members, David “Donny” Pichosky, and his wife Rochelle Wise from Toronto.
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan, bicameral group of congressmen has drafted legislation that would allow Israelis to visit the United States for 90 days without a visa.
The arena he built in Brooklyn has hosted concerts of hip-hop, Latin salsa and reggae, not to mention performances by Dylan, Streisand and the Rolling Stones, but when the genre chosen was Jewish music, Bruce C. Ratner decided to take charge himself.
A Manhattan federal judge refused to block a New York City regulation requiring people who perform Metzitzah B’Peh to first obtain written consent from the parents.
A teen’s health took a turn for the worse and has left her on life support. Now her relatives are trying to honor her wishes. “Our way to believe as a Jew,” said the victim’s mother, Aviva Zfat, “Is that everything goes through the heart. As long as the heart beats, the soul is in the heart, and therefore she is alive.”
Promoting his new album Benny Friedman traveled to Israel where he appeared on Menachem Tokers Motza”sh Live program on Chof Daled Teves. His appearance quickly turned into a chassidishe Farbrengen.
She doesn’t spin on Shabbos. Ping-pong prodigy Estee Ackerman, an 11-year-old from Long Island, was disqualified from her final event at the 2012 US National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas last Dec. 21 when her match fell on the Jewish holy day of rest and she chose not to play.
Over one billion YouTube ‘views’ have been removed in recent days as the popular video sharing website cracked down on any music videos whose hit counts were deemed to be falsely inflated in an effort to boost their popularity among viewers. A number of popular Jewish music videos were ensnared in this mass purge.
He is a singer, an entertainer, a performer, a composer, a lyricist and perhaps the most revolutionary force to ever hit the Jewish music world. But for the last two years, Lipa Schmeltzer has donned another guise, trading his microphones for textbooks and the concert stage for the classroom, as the colorful artist has headed to school in pursuit of a college degree.
Once again, a family’s generous gesture results in providing educational and inspirational DVDs to enhance the lives of bedridden children and adults.
