While 10 people were injured after a Grad rocket hit an Ashdod yeshiva’s courtyard, a much bigger disaster was averted just several blocks away. A rocket which landed near a synagogue where several worshippers prayed failed to explode on Friday.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motti Lipsker will lead a disscussion on the Halacha and the web – is it ok to ask Halacha questions on an internet forum?
For most the Crown Heights Riots, or pogrom, is just a story or chapter in the history of our neighborhood, but for those who were in the neighborhood as a the riots raged on unhindered and uninhibited it was a week they would never forget.
CrownHeights.info obtained news footage spanning the week long unrest, telling its story like never before.
Two years before the Crown Heights riots broke out the newly elected New York City Mayor David Dinkins met the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe told the the mayor that Crown Heights a melting pot of many cultures, and it should be a melting pot of good things.
News outlets worldwide are reporting on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom. The following is a collection of headlines from both news and opinion sections of the media. While most journalists recognize the nature of the riot – an anti-Semitic, blood libel based pogrom – some, such as Henry Goldschmidt writing for the Huffington Post, have taken to apologizing for the perpetrators of the crime, laying the blame on “pent-up black frustration at white privilege” and the “complexity of race relations in Crown Heights.”
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos the at the machne Israel Yechidus 1991, photos by Shmidy.
A panel on the 1991 Crown Heights riots criticized for the inclusion of African-American activist Rev. Al Sharpton that was set to take place in Westhampton Beach on New York’s Long Island on Sunday has been postponed, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.
A rocket fired at Ashdod on Friday exploded in the courtyard of a Gur Shteeble and left 10 people injured. Magen David Adom emergency services said two men were seriously injured. Their names for Tehillim are Shmuel Zev ben Esther, and Yitzchok Meir ben Malka Leah.
They are not seeking spirituality, but the 400 young professionals who filled the trendy Splash club in downtown Boston Tuesday night know how to enjoy a good party.
For Texas A&M University graduate student Kate Putnam, the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center has truly been a home away from home.
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