Crown Heights [CHI] — On Motzei Shabbos, a 15-year-old bochur was on his way home from Shul, when he was accosted on the corner of Albany Ave. and Carroll St. by two African-American males who demanded his cell phone.
At the conclusion of last week, Rabbi Berel Zaklikofsky, Director of Chabad of Goodyear, AZ was invited by Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Ted Wilson to be honored with delivering the “Jewish prayer” at the National Prayer Breakfast at Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base, located in West Phoenix.
This photo of Muka Berkowitz, 2, daughter of Shluchim to Huntsville, Alabama Laibel and Chanie Berkowitz, appeared today in the Hunsville Times. She is playing a xylophone during Panoply at Big Spring International Park on Sunday, April 29.
Torah Café presents part two of an interview by Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet with Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank‘s step-sister Eva Schloss, which took place last week on Yom Hashoa at the Mill Hill synagogue in London.
The board members of congregation Ahavas Moische (AKA Maple Street Shul), led by the shul’s caretaker of 36 years Rabbi Eli Blachman, have released the following statement to the Crown Heights Jewish community and the general public regarding litigation being sought against them by a few disgruntled congregants in a Boro Park Beis Din.
Rabbi Gershon Jacobson used to quip: “Between the Algemeiner and the New York Times, there are about one and a half million readers, give or take.”
On the storied ivy-laden, well-manicured grounds of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., something secretive is going on. Granted, this cradle of American intellectualism has long been the keeper of secrets. Since 1832, when the now infamous Skull and Bones society was formed, the best and brightest students of one of the best and brightest institutions in the world have shown that, if nothing else, they know how to keep mum.
After it’s major success this past year, Yeshivas YNS of New Jersey announced its new summer program this season with director Rabbi ‘O’ and head counselor Moishe Orimland. The program is geared for boys ages 14 to 17.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway’s Auction took place Sunday in Crown Heights with event planner Heshy J of Scoop & Co. giving a presentation. “And the winners are… the hundreds of people who supported the learning of our dear talmidim” said Rabbi Sholom Avtzon.
Craig Nassi is looking forward to spending next week with a very special group of visitors. Nassi, who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, will be helping host a group of injured Israeli veterans and victims of terror touring the East Coast on a trip organized by the Chabad-Lubavitch Israel Center of the Upper East Side and the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
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