The Yiddish news broadcasting service Kol Berama published an article on the tragic collapse of the Champlain Tower in Surfside, and felt the need to explain to their readers why it was importantly to publish about it. Their reason? It’s more than just a few Chabad families dead, those apparently wouldn’t be worth writing about.
The Democratic primary race for mayor was thrown into chaos Tuesday as the city Board of Elections appeared to have botched the count amid the city’s first ranked-choice election.
In town to visit their parents, who had relocated to Florida, two brothers were spending time together in a condominium on the 11th floor of the Champlain Towers South at the time of the collapse.
Recovery crews found the remains of a 12th victim in the rubble of the collapsed Florida condo on Tuesday, authorities said.
Yeshivas Kayitz Yerusholayim, this year taking place in Cozumel, Mexico has concluded its first week with smashing success.
Three months ago, friends gathered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to celebrate the wedding of Dr. Ruslan Manashirov and his wife, Nicole Doran-Manashirov. The event had been postponed multiple times previously due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers, friends have shared photos of the jubilant couple on social media as the Manashirovs remain missing, along with some 150 other residents.
Turn on those air conditioning units and break out those ice pops as the first of the summer seasons heatwaves continue to bake the east coast.
Ilan Naibryf, a student from the University of Chicago who is also past president of his school’s campus Chabad center, is among the missing. Naibryf and his girlfriend, Deborah Berezdivin, were in the building on the night of the collapse.
Starting Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are on track to get their driver’s licenses reinstated as a new law takes effect that ends the widespread practice of suspending a person’s license when they can’t afford to pay a traffic fine.
Despite school closures and the pandemic situation, students at the Jewish Traditional School in Berlin had virtually no missed classes. With its alternation of presence and online teaching, the lessons followed the Berlin curriculum for the upper secondary school and were expanded in content with subjects such as Hebrew and Jewish religion.
In a release from Project Veritas, a reporter goes undercover to discover if poll workers would do some electioneering, an illegal act of a poll worker steering a voter towards a candidate. Sadly, not all poll workers passed the test.
The students at Darchai Menachem Mesivta had the opportunity to explore these questions at Pardess Chabad Farm, the Chabad center serving Southern Dutchess County.
This has been a year of many “firsts” for the Rockwall Jewish community: the first bar mitzvah, the first public menorah lighting, and the first communal seder, to name a few.
In an emotional press conference Monday, officials announced that another victim of the collapse had been found, bringing the death toll to eleven.
Last week’s deadly Florida condo collapse may have started at the base of the building, engineers have said, according to reports.
It was an emotional moment for Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett as he spoke about a young Jewish girl that he found saying Tehillim at ground zero. The girl was davening for one of her parents who was still unaccounted for.
Some 150 people remain missing under the rubble of the Champlain Towers. As prayers and good deeds continue on their behalf, here are profiles of some of those still unaccounted for.
