Good Deed Mural Defaced With Anti-Semitic Message
A mural set up outside the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights was defaced Thursday with a blatant anti-Semitic message. The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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Black Teen Attacks Orthodox Jewish Man in Williamsburg
There has been yet another hate crime in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The latest incident occurred on Wednesday, when two black teens riding on bikes attacked an Orthodox Jewish man walking on Flushing Ave & Nostrand Ave.
Weekly Letter: The Rebbe’s Campaign for “A Moment of Silence”
In light of the recent renewed interest in the Rebbe’s campaign for “a moment of silence” in the Public Schools – we share a letter about the subject. The Rebbe had often spoken and written about this vital topic, within the general framework of education – so as to inculcate children with a sense of respect for a Higher Authority thereby cultivating good traits and behavior- and ultimately avoiding delinquency and lawlessness.
62nd Oholei Torah Annual Gala Dinner
This past Pesach Sheini, Oholei Torah celebrated its 62nd Gala Dinner, a major community event and one that was most cherished by the Rebbe.
JEM: Your Shavuos Moment
Find your Shavuos moment with the Rebbe from 10 updated collections and receive it in time for Shavuos! The Living Archive presents ten updated collections of Kos Shel Bracha from Motzaei Shavuos throughout the years. Look through these collections for family and friends, and send them a gift of their moment with the Rebbe in time for Matan Torah.
Student, 14, Dons Kippah at Graduation as Stand Against Anti-Semitism
When Mitchell Leshchiner, 14, walked across the stage of his middle school graduation Tuesday, not only was he proudly wearing his graduation robe and the medals he earned for his various school accomplishments — on this special day he also decided to wear a kippah.
New Engagement!
Shmuel Yosef (ben Dovid) Zirkind (Crown Heights) to Malky (bas Efrayim Shmuel) Keller (Monsey) L’Chaim: Monday night at F.R.E.E.
IDF Completes Destruction of Main Hezbollah Attack Tunnel
The IDF, in an effort led by the Northern Command and the 91st Division, completed the destruction of an attack tunnel that was dug by the Hezbollah terror organization, crossing into Israeli territory from Lebanon. The attack tunnel was dug from the Shi’ite village of Ramiyeh and was exposed by the IDF last January as part of Operation “Northern Shield”.
JEM: “One By One,” From the Acclaimed Weekly Here’s My Story Series
Read sixty-six vividly diverse stories of guidance, perspective and encouragement from the acclaimed Weekly Here’s My Story Series The psychiatrist with a vision for change. The lonely yeshivah student. The young girl looking for direction. The scientist buried in research work. Each of them was moved by a powerful and timeless encounter with the Rebbe.
Video of the Day
Jew in the City profiled Yehudah Sabiner in a video sponsored by Kamin Health. Yehudah, the first Chassidic man to go to Med School in Israel, opened the door for the nearly 35 others to follow in his footsteps.
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Picture of the Day
Judge Elena Baron, a present Manhattan civil court judge running for surrogate Judge in Kings County, visited the WLCC Communications Room in 770. She was accompanied by Crown Heights activist Rabbi Yaakov Behrman, and was given a tour by Rabbi Mendel Eisenbach. The elections for Surrogate Judge will take place on June 25th.
Here’s My Story: The War of the Plowshares
Rabbi Meir Schlesinger served as the rabbi of Sha’alvim, Israel, for decades and founded there Yeshivat Sha’alvim. He was interviewed in February of 2011.
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.
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.
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