The Jewish community of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and specifically the members of Chabad of Okanagan, got to take part in a once in a lifetime experience to help complete a Torah, something all members of the Jewish faith hope to do at some point during their life.
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The 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks was commemorated last night with two beams up light shining toward the sky at the spot where the World Trade Center towers once stood.
Three people were injured when two cars collided in a busy Eastern Parkway intersection, two children in one of the cars were not hurt.
Australia’s most senior orthodox rabbi, Moshe Gutnick, has formally apologized for child abuse within the Jewish community. In a written apology on the eve of Yom Kippur, he said the issue has been handled inappropriately with a culture of covering up abuse.
Reporter Dana Arschin of News12 Brooklyn introduces her viewers to the Jewish new year, featuring Rabbi Yosef Kramer, who just celebrated his wedding in Arkansas, blowing the Shofar at Chabad of Park Slope.
Over 500 students of the University of Illinois joined Rabbi Rabbi Tiechtel for inspirational Rosh Hashana services.
A small but determined group of demonstrators gathered at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights yesterday to protest the Kaporos ceremonies that take place in Orthodox Jewish communities the week before Yom Kippur.
As the last votes are being tallied up, CrownHeights.info provides a comprehensive summary of who won and who lost in yesterday’s primary election:
Some time during the night vandals attacked the Beis Chaya Mushka Lubavitch girls’ school in Marseilles, France, leaving the interior and facade of the building defaced and the windows smashed to bits.
2,996 lives were claimed in the terror attacks on September 11, 2001; among them were 418 first responders and emergency workers. Police officers from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights held a brief memorial service in their honor.
I grew up in a Chabad House. Chabad of Tidewater to be precise. Throughout the years, hundreds upon hundreds of different people have come and gone. Some we remember quite well. For others, it may take a moment. But only a select few are etched in our everlasting memories.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ 23-year run as Brooklyn’s top prosecutor has come to an end following his stunning defeat in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who ran an upstart campaign pledging to fight New York City’s economic inequality, emerged as the surprising top choice in the Democratic mayoral primary, but could still face weeks — and another electoral fight — before becoming his party’s nominee.
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