Everyone in the Soviet Union knew what to do if you were arrested by the Secret Police: You shut your mouth, averted your gaze and tried to be inconspicuous. Everyone, that is, besides Leibel Mochkin, who died last week at the age of 95.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses prevention through education, with Dena Gorkin for the prevention 101 series. Dena Gorkin is the Director of Community Education for NCFJE’s Operation Survival, and founder and principal of Bnos Chomesh Academy high school for girls.
Over 100 friends and supporters join Bais Rivkah’s “Comedy Night at Sea” fundraiser. The event featured a lavish buffet catered by Boeuf and Bun, wine and an open bar by Wine by the Case, kumzitz with the amazing Yossi Lebowitz, and entertainment by comedian Ashley Blaker.
Making the perfect sign that will catch a persons attention, and attract them to come to a farbrengen is always a challenge. Sometimes though, simplicity, a tight budget along with a little creativity, can do the trick.
A gun bust in Brooklyn’s 67th police precinct netted an arsenal of over 34 guns and large amounts of munitions. Three people were arrested for involvement during the raid.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is currently on an official visit to Kiev. This is the first visit of a foreign leader to Ukraine during the cadence of newly elected Jewish President Vladimir Zelensky. The Head Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Kiev, Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, had an active part in the activities of the Prime Minister’s visit.
A Frum Monsey father of 7, Reb Dovid Traube, was reported reported missing while boating on Greenwood Lake, which straddles the New York and New Jersey Border. Rabbi Traube had jumped into the lake to save his son who had gone overboard. The son was reported to have been removed from the water, while the father has yet to be found.
The students of Mosow’s yeshiva ktana spent the summer months in Montreal, Canada, as part of their yeshivas kayitz program. In a peaceful and quiet environment they continued to delve into their studies. Their dedicated staff accompanied them, guiding and supporting their progress. Friday afternoons saw the students actively working with Montreal’s Jewish Russian immigrants, in coordination with the local Shluchim. The best Rabbis and Mashpiim were brought in from the U.S. and Canada to farbreng with the boys on various occasions.
In the third large scale search this Sunday, Rockland Chaverim have begun establishing a search for a missing bochur at Bear Mountain. Updates will be published as information becomes available.
Photo Gallery: Gan Yisroel summer camp at the Lubavitch Paris Seminar, and a Farbrengen for the 15th of Av with Rabbi Marazow.
A Crown Heights vehicle became the victim of another act of random vandalism overnight. Video surveillance shows a man hopping onto the hood of a parked vehicle, before putting his foot through the windshield.
A Crown Heights Hatzalah Volunteer made a Kiddush Hashem, when he found himself in the right place at the right time while driving a school bus through Pennsylvania.
A car crashed nose first into a brick wall following a two car accident in Crown Heights. No one was seriously injured in the accident, and details on how it occurred is still under investigation.
One person was arrested and another is at large following a police pursuit in Crown Heights. The two had broken into a school bus, stolen a fire extinguisher and discharged it into shops on Kingston Ave.
A Chof Av tribute event is planned for the Crown Heights community on Tuesday evening, the Yartzeit of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Shneerson z”l. The event will feature famed lecturer Rabbi Shais Taub, as well as entertainment by singer Eli Marcus.
Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, backed by an order of law issued by a municipal judge.
On the final Friday of the summer, campers and staff gathered to mark camp’s Bar Mitzvah year by celebrating the achievements of all campers as part their 13th annual MBP Award ceremony.
