Months of hard work by hundreds of RCCS volunteers, culminated last night with a seven-hour fund-raising marathon, simulcast through teleconference and live streaming. The RCCS live auction performance, which has now become a much anticipated annual event, was all that it claimed it would be, and then some!
Lubavitcher entertainers Benny Friedman and Mendy Pellin, will join in a long list of Jewish superstars who will be performing for the upcoming RCCS Miracles live comedy show and auction drawing, this December 6th. The event will be carried live on CrownHeights.info.
CROWN HEIGHTS — Satmar Chassidim gathered in the Bedford Avenue armory in Crown Heights Heights marking Kuf Alef Kislev, the day Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum Zt’l, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from Hungary during the holocaust.
TOULOUSE, France — French police on Tuesday arrested two alleged accomplices of gunman Mohamed Merah, whose Al-Qaeda-inspired shooting spree in and around the southern city of Toulouse earlier this year left seven people dead.
Imprisoned Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard was rushed to a North Carolina hospital on Friday after having collapsed in his jail cell. Pollard’s wife Esther was informed of his hospitalization, but the severity of his condition was not initially known. The Free Pollard Campaign said he had been in great pain in recent weeks.
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States.
A Jewish woman in Isfahan, Iran, was murdered and cut in half by Muslim extremists who wanted to take over her home, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.
The inspiring glow of the Menorah will be experienced in New Jersey state prisons for the first time, thanks to a new ruling announced by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Poland that shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals, was “illegal.”
The first official Balaboostas.com event, “After the Kallah Class”, took place Thursday evening in the Crown Heights community. It was a lecture on intimacy by psychotherapist, Rivka Sidorsky, LCSW-C. The crowd of 70 women listened on intently, as she spoke about issues and topics that concern married Jewish women.
Hungary’s Jewish community initiated a criminal procedure against a Hungarian far-right politician in that country who recently urged the government to compile a list of Jews who pose a “national security risk.”
French police reportedly are investigating fresh acts of vandalism in two Jewish cemeteries and a municipal building. On Monday in Paris, police arrested two men suspected of digging up two corpses at the Pantin cemetery, according to a statement from the municipality.
CROWN HEIGHTS — OK Kosher Certification recently held its annual Mashgiach Conference at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Over 150 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
When Nicole Drapeau of Montreal slipped on a patch of ice two weeks ago and broke her ankle, she got more than just free medical treatment for her injury. She says she had her faith in mankind restored.
Due to the severe backlogging of court cases caused by Hurricane Sandy, the hearing over the law requiring mohelim to obtain parents’ “informed consent” before performing metzitzah b’peh has been rescheduled for December 12. In the meantime, the temporary stay on the “consent” rule has been extended, with the government agreeing not to enforce this regulation until oral arguments are heard.
Salvatore Perrone, AKA “John Doe Duffel Bag,” tha man accused of murdering three Brooklyn shopkeepers (two of whom were Jewish), has been frequenting shops around Boro Park over the last few months, sources have told CrownHeights.info.
After eight days of fierce fighting, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr said ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect at 9:00pm [Israel Standard Time] Wednesday.
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