Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said young people’s reading and conversational skills were being put at risk by overexposure to modern technology.
A number of years ago, I received a frantic phone call from a Shliach who had been an old friend from our days together in Yeshiva. He stated that he was about to be evicted from his home, and that if he didn’t come up with thousands of dollars, his family would be on the street.
Less than a month after celebrating the dedication of a new Torah scroll, the small, but historic Jewish community of Kremenchug, Ukraine, was forced to again deal with anti-Semitism after a Molotov cocktail ignited a fire and damaged its synagogue’s exterior.
This year for Hey Teves, Cheder at the Ohel chose to celebrate this special day at the Levi Yitzchok Jewish Children’s Library in Cedarhurst Long Island.
The dreidels were spinning and the latkes were frying all during Chanukah as the Chabad Neshama Center catered to the Russian American Jewish Community of Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, hosting entertaining and inspiring events each day of the holiday.
Children in Lubavitcher Yeshivas 2nd grade were rewarded for their outstanding learning and honored with being the first to recite the twelve pesukim and reherse some of the pesukim in chumash that they learned. The students were rewarded with pizza, fries and soda from Crown Heightses new pizzaria Pomodori on Kingston Avenue.
Only days after the Dutch Parliament rejected proposed legislation to ban shechitah in Holland, Deputy Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) Rabbi L. Goldberg told the Knesset Committee for Aliya, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs that in order to prevent a wave of legislation proscribing shechitah, better public diplomacy needs to be used.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, participated last week in a Hachnosas Sefer Torah for a Buchari Congregation in Queens, NY, which is supporded by the philathropist Levi Levaiev.
An incident happened on Monday night in the heart of Flatbush, that left two women and their infant children badly shaken, but thankfully not hurt.
Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario will open a new $6 million overnight camp situated on more than 200 acres of Canadian forest with 6000 feet of lakefront property in time for this summer season.
Yeshivas Lubavitch of Manchester welcomed Shluchim from university campuses across Europe for an all night farbrengen.
The wind chill will make it feel zero degrees and colder in portions of the tristate region Tuesday.
In a report on last week’s mass Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project, Israel’s Channel 10 News featured the tragic story of 13-year-old Eliad Shefi, who lost his older sister when Palestinian terrorists dressed as Israeli soldiers broke into their home in 2002.
As reported here on Crownheights.info, a new 1,600 page mafteach on all the Rebbe’s talks was just released by Rabbi Michoel Seligson. The mafteach sold out at Kehos after only 24 hours on the shelves.
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