CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A car with three occupants was involved in a very serious crash in the service lane of Eastern Parkway this evening. The incident took place between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues at around 6:30pm.
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MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — A call rings out across the study hall “Yitzy! Hey Yitzy! Do you have that piece of Gemara figured out?”
“Yeah, I think so, here!” and Yitzy tosses a small, portable flash drive across the room. It’s caught by another student and promptly plugged into his idling laptop, which opens a file on the new program, Gemara Berura.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — A Vladivostok court Wednesday ordered a senior Far East rabbi, a U.S. citizen, to be deported after it ruled that he misrepresented his activities in the country on his visa application.
The city’s Pervorechensky District Court ruled to deport Israel Silberstein, 26, the chief rabbi of the Primorye region, Daniil Yakovlev, a spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, told The Moscow Times.
CROWN HEIGHTS — The International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchos begins Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Headquarters in Brooklyn.
Now in its 21st year, the Conference organizers anticipate 2500 women will attend, the majority of them Chabad representatives of Jewish communities in some 70 countries worldwide. The theme of this year’s conference is Jewish unity.
BROOKLYN, NY — Police are questioning a driver in Brighton Beach after it was discovered he had struck a pedestrian — 17 miles away, near Shea Stadium — and unknowingly dragged him into Brooklyn.
A weekly Torah class and lunch for senior citizens in Miami Beach, Fla., boasted some big-name talent last week when world-famous Jewish comedian Jackie Mason introduced Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zev Katz.
“Chutzpah!” Mason berated the crowd amidst peels of laughter. “It takes me coming to the Seniors’ Club for all of you to step foot into a synagogue?”
Throughout Kinus Hashluchos this year, The Shluchim Office will be offering FREE footmuffs to Shluchos to keep their baby warm. Footmuffs will be available at The Shluchim Office beginning Thursday morning (February 12th) on a first come first serve basis. Make sure to stop by and get one!
Has crime gotten so bad that we need the military protecting our streets and subways? Its certainly what it looked like to those passing the Brooklyn Art Museum on Eastern Parkway. The scene was a film shoot for a TV series with the background set on the Brooklyn Art Museum on Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue.
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GOLETA, CA — Fire investigators interviewed occupants and examined evidence before determining there was no malicious intent in connection with the blaze at UC Santa Barbara’s Chabad House, County Fire Capt. Eli Iskow said.
WASHINGTON, DC — A charismatic religious Jewish group is in an international legal battle against the Russian Federation, literally fighting for its spiritual soul. At stake is the right to possess the precious archive and library of the orthodox Jewish group known as Chabad.
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