A Yeshiva University dormitory was set aflame on Friday by a 33-year-old suspect who was set free on supervised release and then soon after rearrested after another incident of vandalism, the New York Post reported.
Four people were killed and 14 more injured in a bus crash Sunday evening in central Israel. The accident occurred near Bedek Junction on Route 40, near Yehud, when a 947 line bus operated by the Egged company crashed into a bus stop.
As millions of Jews worldwide began lighting the menorah in their homes, thousands more joined public menorah lightings in public squares, famous plazas and local shopping malls. Here are a few well attended public Menorah lightings.
The topics in this week’s 288th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Is the Halachik and Hashkafic Explanation for Public Menorahs? How Do We Explain the Victory of Chanukah When in the End Greek Secularism Seems to Have Prevailed in Modern Times? How Do We Explain the Seemingly Unacceptable Behavior of the Tribes? If You Don’t like Someone, Is It Better to Be Two-Faced and Speak Nicely to the Person, or Behave like the Tribes Who Couldn’t Speak to Yosef?
For the past few decades, Crown Heights Shomrim has been a reliable and dedicated Volunteer Safety and Rescue Patrol that has been counted on by Crown Heights residents in their time of need. Now Shomrim asks that you return the favor.
A group of Orthodox Jewish healthcare providers have written in to Mishpacha Magazine following a recent Anti-Vaccine column featured in the magazine regarding the HPV vaccine. Here are their responses.
A Poway Street was renamed in memory of Chabad of Poway shooting victim Lori Lynn Gilbert-Kaye obm. The The short street off Stone Canyon Road, near where Gilbert-Kaye lived, was renamed from Eva Drive to Lori Lynn Lane at the request of family and friends and with the blessing of the city.
In an unusual move, the Gabboim of 770 responded to last nights brawl in 770 by banning the instigators of the fight from entering 770. They published the ban in a letter disseminated to the public.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, a Chabad Rabbi and Historian, was a guest speakers at a recent shabbaton in Warsaw, Poland held under the auspices of the Shliach, Rabbi Sholom Ber Stambler. The event was noted as historic, as it marks the first ever Chabad shabbaton event in Poland since the Holocaust.
A beautiful connection point event that took place in 770 Motzai Shabbos dissolved into a brawl after a group opposed to the event took offense at the videos political leaning. Fists flew, people were injured, and the police were called. There were no arrests made over the incident.
The United Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street campus erected their eleven foot menorah outside their building in preparation for Chanukah this week.
