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New York City Mayor-hopeful Rudy Giuliani visits the Rebbe on 17 Elul, 5749 · September 17, 1989
New York City Mayor-hopeful Rudy Giuliani visits the Rebbe on 17 Elul, 5749 · September 17, 1989
This Sunday children from the Friendship Circle of Crown Heights will be the stars of a softball game together with the players of the Crown Heights Softball League.
If you follow restaurants in New York at all, you’ve seen or heard Maimon Kirschenbaum’s name. It’s synonymous with — some would say infamous for — a steady stream of wage-violation lawsuits brought against star chefs such as Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, and Keith McNally (he’s won settlements from all three), and he’s targeted restaurants like Nobu, Philippe, and Le Bernardin. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a modern-day Robin Hood, fighting for workers’ rights in a business full of corruption, or an ambulance-chasing bully determined to put the city’s restaurants out of business.
Nearly 20 years after a Hasidic Jewish boy riding across the Brooklyn Bridge was killed by a Muslim fighting jihad, a British soldier was hacked to death and reportedly beheaded on the streets of London by Muslims fighting jihad.
If someone were to tell you that tens of thousands of grown adults had taken to the streets, weeping bitterly over their sad state of “Beef deprivation,” you would likely treat it like a joke. You might check your (spiffy electronic) calendar to make sure it’s not April 1st.
The girls of Gani Lubavitch Girls High School in S. Paulo, Brazil, were treated to a special experience two weeks before Gimmel Tammuz, when Rabbi Elkanah Shmotkin, the director of JEM, spoke to them and shared special videos of the Rebbe.
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo go the Rebbe encouraging the singing during Kos Shel Bracha.
MONROE, NJ — Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky was called upon to be an official ‘witness’ for the Guinness Book of World Records, documenting an historical occasion of the most centenarians in one event (40!) at a Jewish nursing facility in NJ.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier will lead a discussion into the right response to a greeting.