NYC Marks First Month on Record Without Fire Fatality
New York City fire officials say June was the first month in 150 years that there wasn’t a fire-related death in the city.
Daily Archives: July 3, 2015
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NYPD Begins Crackdown on Electric Scooters
The NYPD has begun a crackdown on electric bikes and the restaurants that use them, saying the use of such bikes are de facto illegal since they cannot be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Shabbos at the Besht: Summer – Opportunity or Challenge?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Kasriel Kastel will lead a discussion on the topic – Summer: Opportunity or Challenge?
‘Britain’s Schindler’ Dies at 106
Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.
Israel Edelson conducts a chamber orchestra at the 2013 Colel Chabad dinner
Soul Strings Beckon, A Conductor Follows
When Israel Edelson, a rising conductor under the tutelage of legendary maestro Leonard Bernstein, arrived in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, some 30 years ago, he was searching for a something. He found it in Chasidic melodies, known as niggunim, that were sung around the Shabbat table at the home of Rabbi Yoel Kahan.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying L’chaim with the elder Chassidim sitting behind him at a Farbrengen in the early 1970s.
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