CKids Holds “Camp Training”
300 Crown Heights high school girls came together Sunday to train for their roles as counselors in summer camps across the world.
Daily Archives: May 29, 2019
Prominent Chinuch Experts to Address the 18th Kinus HaMechanchim
The Kinus HaMechanchim, sponsored by the Merkos Chinuch Office will feature Renowned Chinuch Experts at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Danbury CT on 5-6 Tammuz, July 8th and 9th.
Knesset Dissolved, Israel Going to Elections
The 21st Knesset has been dissolved, less than a month after it was sworn in. The Knesset approved the Knesset Dispersion Law on Wednesday evening by a majority of 74 to 45.
West Coast JLI Regional Conference
Eighty shluchim from the state of California gathered last Sunday at the stunning home of Chabad of North Hollywood for the regional conference sharing ideas for success in their adult education programming.
Sholom Ber (Berel) Raskin, an iconic Crown Heights fishmonger for the last six decades, passed away on Shabbat, May 25, at the age of 84. (Photo: Israel Bardugo)
Berel Raskin, 84, Chassidic Fishmonger Who Became a Crown Heights Icon
Sholom Ber (Berel) Raskin, the kosher fishmonger who, glinting cleaver in hand, welcomed generations of customers, visitors and journalists into his pungent Crown Heights fish store and the Chassidic neighborhood he called home, passed away suddenly on Shabbat morning, May 25. He was 84, having spent 65 years living in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to which he arrived as an orphaned survivor of Soviet tyranny and Nazi terror, and where he eventually became an area icon.
Video of the Day
The IDF has released a video that gives you a look inside a sophisticated Hezbollah cross border tunnel. The tunnel, which was standing hight and had built in electricity and communications, was 82 meters deep underground, 680 meters of it in Lebanon, and entered 77 meters into Israel.
United Healthcare Update, From Doctor Gottesman’s Office
Following the drastic reduction in payments from United Healthcare Community Plan, Doctor Gottesman has released the following letter to his patients informing them that he will soon not be accepting the health insurance plan, and asking them to to switch to another.
Among those who lost a business to tornadoes in Ohio were Zeke and Iris Levi, whose car shop was destroyed. Their daughter, Maytal, a reporter at Fox19 in Cincinnati, broadcast live from Harrison Township conveying to viewers what she was seeing on the ground. (Photo: Maytal Levi)
Jewish Neighborhood Hit Hard as Tornadoes Plow Through Dayton, Ohio
by Faygie Levy Holt – chabad.org The sky over Dayton, Ohio, crackled and flashed. Rain and wind, thunder and lightning spread throughout the Greater Dayton region on Monday night, but it was two massive tornadoes that shattered glass, uprooted trees, […]
Man Shouts Anti-Semitic Slurs at Rabbis Walking in Peabody, Massachusetts on Shabbos
Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman, the Chabad Shliach to Peabody Massachusetts, took to facebook with a story of hate that occurred over Shabbos.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended May 30th
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Thursday, May 30, 2019 for a holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Russia Rejects US ‘Deal of the Century’
Russia on Tuesday rejected the US peace plan for Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the upcoming economic conference in Bahrain is an attempt by the US “to substitute the genuine peace process with imposed economic incentives.”
ENDED: Mueller to Give Statements on Russia Interference Probe
Special counsel Robert Mueller will make a statement on Wednesday regarding his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, his first public comments regarding the high-profile investigation he was appointed to lead two years ago.
L’Chaim: Moshe Sirota (Crown Heights) to Eliya Laytin (Tucson, AZ)
The L’Chaim of Moshe Sirota of Crown Heights, and Eliya Laytin of Tucson, AZ took place Monday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights.
Parents of Mesivta Lev Temimim Respond to Yeshiva Closure
In a public statement to the community, the parents of Mesivta Lev Temimim Lubavitch of Monsey respond to the sudden closure of the Yeshiva.
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