ENDED: Food Distribution at F.R.E.E.
Huge quantity of assembled produce boxes and essential food items, such as Orange Juice, Gefilte Fish, Wraps and Challah Rolls, available outside F.R.E.E. 1383 President Street.
Huge quantity of assembled produce boxes and essential food items, such as Orange Juice, Gefilte Fish, Wraps and Challah Rolls, available outside F.R.E.E. 1383 President Street.
After a short hiatus, the relative calm of Crown Heights was again broken with a shooting Wednesday afternoon. No victims were located on scene.
The fury of Tropical Storm Isaias had not been seen in New York City since Hurricane Sandy made landfall in 2012. Trees ripped up, cars crushed under massive tree limbs, but thankfully no injuries reported in Crown Heights
When Rabbis Elkanah Shmotkin and Boruch Oberlander began research on the Rebbe’s upbringing in Nikolayev, Ukraine, for Jewish Educational Media’s Early Years, they could not have imagined the political and cultural impact their work would have on the local populace. Now, nearly fifteen years after the initial contact with the Ukrainian government, a new book has been published by the State Archives of the Nikolayev Region.
You don’t expect to find a book by Rabbi Manis Friedman in the children’s section at the local bookstore. Yet that is exactly where you will find Rabbi Friedman’s newly released “Who Needs You.”
A hit and run driver slammed into two parked cars Motzei Shabbos, abandoning his wrecked vehicle in the middle of a Crown Heights intersection. The 71st Precinct is investigating the incident.
As Tisha B’Av arrived in the City of Lights, the chabad congregants of Paris sat down to recite eicha, and mourn the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash.
In a scene straight out of the movies, and gang of four teenagers assaulting a person in Boro Park, found themselves on the run, and slashed a Boro Park Shomrim volunteer.
As Tisha B’Av began in New York, Lubavitchers gathered to recite eicha, and mourn the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash.
To help parents with entertaining children on Tisha B’av, Camp Crate will be opening a few classes for free on their website and allow access to all beginning after chatzos on Tisha B’av. Classes have been chosen that have minimal specialty supplies so that your children can follow along with supplies you likely have at home.
Three weeks prior to the start of the summer, it was clear that there would be a shortage of camp options in Miami for grades 4-7. With the Rebbes brachos, the Rogalsky’s jumped in to fill this void, and Day Camp Miami was born.
CGI YKK had another fun filled and action packed week this past week, finishing the camps third week with a bang.
This year, the Friday closest to Chamisha Asar B’av coincides with Friday, July 31/10 Av, Erev Shabbos Nachamu and marks the 6th year of CBI – Challah Bake International. This auspicious time is ideal for women to join not only in making challah, but also in giving tzedokah and davening for each other’s children of marriageable age – arousing Heavenly mercy for a significant, positive change in finding shidduchim for our children.
In Eastern Europe, there is a truth that lurks just beneath the surface. Beyond the glitz of new developments and predating the drab grayness of Soviet-era construction lie remnants of a lost Jewish world and its inhabitants. It’s the reason why Rabbi Moshe Thaler, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Berdichev, Ukraine, and the city’s lone rabbi, was unsurprised when construction workers at the tomb of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev (1740-1809) suddenly hit something.
As reported previously, an exciting addition is being made to this year’s course, with the inclusion of a new presenter Rabbi Mendel Klyne, principal and teacher at Cheder Chabad Detroit.
As today is the Yom Hahilulah of the Arizal Hakadosh, we present a series of photos from the kever in Tzat from photographer Mendy Kurant.
JETS Yeshiva of Los Angeles, CA, has announced that Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson, co-director of the hugely successful summer program Yeshivas Kayitz Yerushalayim, will be joining their staff as a full-time teacher and mashpia.