A number of people are lucky to be alive after a collision between an SUV and a sedan occurred in a busy Empire Boulevard intersection. The sedan lost control and slammed into a building – just missing a number of pedestrians that were waiting in a bus stop. The driver of the sedan fled the scene.
The Jewish community of Ann Arbor, Michigan, celebrated a historic milestone on Sunday, March 8th, with the chanukas habayis of a beautiful newly renovated Mikvah, sponsored by Mikvah USA.
The first-ever Chassidic bar mitzvah in Pasco County—a mix of rural and suburban neighborhoods on Florida’s west coast near Tampa—drew about 250 people from the area, as well as from Massachusetts, New York, France and even Russia.
After much anticipation the winners of the first ever MyLife: Essay Contest were announced live last night during the 61st episode of MyLife: Chassidus Applied. The five judges – Rabbis Leibel Altein, Yaakov Brawer, Y.Y. Jacobson, Sholom Lipskar and Eli Silberstein – evaluated the essays and selected the winners, from the 530 (!) submissions received, using an intensive grading system.
In the wake of the tragedy that befell the Jewish community Friday night, Crown Heights Shomrim have released the following list of fire safety tips for the Jewish home.
Just two days after an historic election in Israel in which the Prime Minister was returned to another term as Prime Minister, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer and his wife, Rhoda, were honored at the Inaugural Chabad of Bethesda Gala Dinner.
When I saw the sign “EVERY AGUNAH IS MY SISTER”, in caps, with a solid bright red background, I felt something was wrong. Despite the loving words, the sign was not one of Ahavas Yisroel. It was manipulation. It proclaimed a righteousness to all vocal Agunah supporters, with the implication that if you don’t show support Agunahs you will be ostracized.
The seven Jewish siblings who died in a devastating house fire in Flatbush were laid to rest in Jerusalem on Monday at an emotional ceremony attended by several thousand mourners.
A New York police officer was taken to hospital with minor injuries after being sucker-punched by a young man he tried to arrest Sunday evening at the Utica Ave. subway station in Crown Heights, police said.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the month of Nissan and the Yomtov of Pesach for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Chabad of Orange County’s Jewish Women’s Circle enjoyed a tasty and informative Passover-Gluten Free Cooking Demonstration this past Wednesday, held at the Chabad Center in Chester, NY. The demo was presented by expert Chef Shifra Klein of Brooklyn, editor of the highly acclaimed Joy Of Kosher Magazine.
Following a fire last week in their high school, Beis Rivka conducted a fire drill in their larger Lefferts Avenue elementary school. 1,400 students ranging in age from 2-years-old to 14-years-old quickly filed out of the building once the alarms sounded. It took staff and students under 3 minutes to successfully evacuate the entire building.
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, along with his chiefs, lieutenants and other officials, hosted leaders and activists of Brooklyn’s several Jewish communities for the annual pre-Passover security briefing last week.
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