For the 6th time, Jew in the City brought together exceptional individuals in a variety of fields who are both trailblazers in their careers and role models in their communities. The award winners were recognized on stage at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in a room with close to 600 guests.
The 71st Precinct Special Operations Team that covers Crown Heights, made multiple gang arrests this past week and took two guns off the streets.
Friendship Circle of Brooklyn has once again launched its Annual Toy Drive; all toys donated will be distributed to children with special needs and their siblings at the FC Chanukah Extravaganza.
Andor Stern, the only known Holocaust survivor to have born in Brazil, celebrated his bar mitzvah at the age of 91 in a moving ceremony at Kehilat Israel, São Paulo’s oldest Jewish synagogue.
Over 35 former students of Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown NJ came together for a shabbos reunion of beautiful memories and Chizuk.
The 8th grade class of Oholei Torah Mesivta, headed by Rabbi Levi Borenstein, were tested this week on Perek Aleph of Mesechtes Makos. They passed with honors.
It smells like a cafe ought to. The rows of eclairs and tarts and cupcakes line the glass counter in perfect, high-caloric formation. Light streams in through large windows, dimpling the whipped cream on the flawlessly frothed drinks. And then the barista asks for your order. And you know that there is something special about this place.
Several weeks ago, in a Mishpachah article about Jewish Educational Media (JEM) and their work in maintaining the legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, a story was included about a bochur named Zalman Lipsker, who was sent late one night to lay tefillin on a Jew from Long Beach. The day after the article appeared, Rabbi Lipsker received a call from a reader, who introduced herself as the daughter of Louie Shelder, the man to whom the Rebbe had sent the teenage Zalman.
In honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev a Seudas Hoda’ah and Farbrengen was held at the Yeshiva Gedolah, many of Anash gathered to hear Divrei Torah and Farbreng with the Talmidim and Hanholos Hayeshiva.
Two weeks ago, while Rabbi Chaim and Sora Jacobs the Shluchim to Scotland were in New York for the Lubavitch Shluchim Conference, they met with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at his home New York.
JLI’s new course this fall, Worrier to Warrior, has struck a chord with the public across the country and the globe with many shluchim seeing unusually high numbers of participants. Multiple shluchim report a significant increase in student enrollment, with some experiencing their largest turnout in JLI history.
The OK Kashrus, a Crown Heights based Kashrus organization has released an alert notifying the Jewish community of the unauthorized use of the OK Kashrus symbol on Nuts being sold in Bolla Markets.
The Jewish cemetery in Westhoffen, west of Strasbourg in France, was vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti this week. Over 107 gravestones were damaged in what is becoming a trend of cemetery desecrations in Europe.
An evening marking the Fifth yartzeit of Mrs. Gitta Gansburg will take place this Wednesday, Vov Kislev/December 4. The event, beginning at 8 p.m. will be held at Mrs. Gansburg’s home for 38 years, the dormitory at 1367 President Street.
A Beis Rivkah school bus filled with children being shuttled home to their families was attacked with stones Tuesday in Crown Heights. The attack shattering a window and traumatized the children.
The Bolla Market store attached to the newly renovated Mobile gas station in Crown Heights is stocking kosher goodies, and plans on expanding its kosher offerings.
In Suffolk County, Long Island, temples and synagogues are slowly closing their doors. But Village Chabad in Stony Brook just built a new $4.6 million, 13,000 sq. ft. Jewish center in the heart of the New York town.
