CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was shot and killed this afternoon in a drive by shooting on a Crown Heights street.
HONG KONG [CHI] — Over 200 people packed Hong Kong’s Jewish Community Center on Monday, celebrating the Bris of Boruch Sholom Kamhin, son of Moshe and Miriam (nee Greene) Kamhin.
Tyler Hochman describes his effort to send 280 wheelchairs to Israel with a metaphor.
ALBANY, NY — Students at the Maimonides Day School in Albany got up-close lessons in modern day idolatry when a traveling sculpture exhibit set up shop for several months in the New York capital.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Bochur on his way home from night Seder in Yeshiva was accosted by a group of 3 Black teens on Brooklyn Avenue, who hit him and threatened to stab him in attempt to steal his bicycle.
On Chaf Mar Cheshvan, the birthday of the Rebbe Rashab (the 5th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch), the English speaking Chabad community of Ramat Beit Shemesh (Alef), Chabad on Dolev of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel, held a wonderful farbrengen.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Parshas Chaye Sarah came to life in the classrooms of Beis Rivkah. The children were engaged in various different creative and educational activities that captured their excitement of discovering new concepts.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Mispalelim of the early Minyans in 770 celebrated the completion and dedication of a new Sefer Torah last night in honor of the Rebbe Rashabs 150th Birthday. The Torah was sponsored by the mispallalim of the 7:30am Minyan in 770, fondly known as the “Happy Minyan”, and mispallalim of the 7:15am Minyan.
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Earlier this week the Rambam community, lead by Rabbi Shlomo Sabbah, had the privilege to welcome a brand new Torah scroll donated by Mr Patrick Sabbah & family (Los Angeles CA).
Hundreds of candles glinted off wine glasses while a burnished chandelier hanging from a 70-foot-high ceiling cast a rosy glow over the packed marble-clad ballroom of New York City’s Gotham Hall.
The MTA board has approved increases on tolls at certain New York bridges and tunnels. Crossings that only collect one-way tolls will increase by $1, while round-trip tolls, like those on the Verrazano Narrows, will increase by $2. E-ZPass users will only see an increase of 5 percent.
An elderly motorist plowed her Mercedes Benz into a Queens Kosher grocery today, mowing down a customer and giving everyone else in the store the scare of their lives.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has denied a motion for a new trial for a former kosher meatpacking plant executive convicted of financial fraud following an immigration raid on the Iowa plant.
After Tishrei’s marathon of simcha and spiritual elevation, many people find themselves faced with the daunting task of returning to another kind of race – the rat race.
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