Following the report of a confirmed measles case in Crown Heights, information on the exposure has come to light. The exposure, from a nine month old, happened primarily at the Beis Chaya Mushka School in Crown Heights, where the child attended daycare.
Mr. Yisroel Swimmer resides in Lawrence, New York, where he is chief financial officer at Tilebar, a tile retailer. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter project in April of 2019.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, in addressing a press conference Tuesday on the increase in hate crimes in New York City under his watch, said, “I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is the right-wing movement.”
This past Thursday, Lag B’omer, Chabad of Markham welcomed a new Sefer Torah in loving memory of Zalmy Plotkin obm, with over 500 people attended the event. A Torah parade was held in conjunction with a Lag Baomer event after the last letter of the Torah was inscribed.
Two girls, ages four and seven, were killed in a car crash Thursday, which occurred on the Arava road, Route 90, near Ein Yahav. The victims of a fatal accident in southern Israel have been identified as new immigrants, who moved from France to Israel three months ago.
As election month arrives for the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, no word nor update has been given on an election date. In fact, elections appear to not be progressing to reality at all, despite the legal obligation.
An invitation to the 1928 wedding of the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was discovered at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
In honor the approaching Gimmel Tammuz, A Chassidisher Derher is launching a special series of WhatsApp broadcasts, including short inspirational selections of the Rebbe’s sichos and letters on the subject of strengthening hiskashrus.
A violent Jewelry heist on a Jewish a Jewish store in Paris was caught on camera Wednesday morning. The entire event, from the entrance to the thieves being caught was documented by surveillance camera and bystanders.
Russian President Mr. Vladimir Putin inaugurated a monument to commemorate the rebels of the ghettos and concentration camps in the Holocaust. The monument stands at the entrance to the Jewish Tolerance Museum in Moscow’s Marina Roscha neighborhood.
In honor of 25 years since Gimmel Tammuz, Chabad.org has partnered with Ezra Press (an imprint of Kehot Publication Society) and acclaimed author Mendel Kalmenson to release a new book entitled Positivity Bias which offers practical wisdom for positive living based on the example and teachings of the Rebbe.
Dr. Levi A. Reiter is an Audiologist, (hearing Doctor), wrote this Op-Ed taking on something spoken about on private chats and mothers groups. The music by our Simchas is just simply too loud.
“Hanachos,” the new weekly Magazine released by the Vaad Talmidei Hatemimim, has released its second edition. This weeks magazine includes “An Insider’s Perspective: Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky,” and “Recollections from Hanhalah: Rabbi Yosef Gorman.”
Watch as New York City Judge Ruchie Freier, the first female Orthodox Jewish Judge in New York City, is interviewed by Kikar Hashabbat on her accomplishments, and where the Orthodox Jewish female is headed in the workforce.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Tuesday-Thursday, June 6th, 2019 for a holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses Mental Illness with David Schwartz, Psy.D., LCSW, a professional counselor for 40 years. David focuses on evaluation, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral health issues.
Yoni Rosenberg (Monsey, NY) and Chaya Levy-Chaim (Crown Heights)
