Even as the Woolsey Fire – the largest wildfire on record for Los Angeles County, which has thus-far burned through 97,620 acres, destroyed at least 483 structures and damaged 86 others with thousands more still threatened – hovers at 50 percent containment, the fallout of the massive blaze continues to impact the lives of thousands throughout the affected areas.
Since 1972, Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff has lived in Houston, Texas, where he serves as the regional director of Chabad of Texas. He was interviewed in December, 2008.
A terrorist carried out a stabbing attack at the Oz police station in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday evening. One policeman was stabbed, and three others wounded in the attack.
Alternate Side Parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, November 15th for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
In a first for this winter season, forecasters have predicted temperatures to freeze tonight, and follow with a mixed snow and rain storm tomorrow.
Yehuda and Malka (nee Colin) Slater (Crown Heights)
In a win for those who use chickens for Kaporos, today, New York’s highest court rejected animal rights activists’ attempt to force NYC to end the use of chickens as kaporos.
The home of a Jewish mayor in France was covered with anti-Semitic graffiti including swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans.
The US State Department is offering millions of dollars in exchange for tips leading to the tracking down of terrorist leaders affiliated with Hamas and Hezbollah.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced Wednesday afternoon that he would resign his position in the Netanyahu government, and that he will call for new elections.
In a brutal police incident, A Jewish man driving a taxi hit multiple cars Tuesday night following a medical episode that left him confused. The man was violently removed from the vehicle, and transported to the hospital for treatment.
At University of Massachusetts Amherst, Helping Hands is building bridges across differences. When hackers broke into university printers and distributed anti-Semitic flyers two years ago, the response, an impromptu Helping Hands event.
As Mumbai’s Jewish school, the brain child of Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg, has expanded since its inception, and now another Shliach will be joining the Chabad House in Mumbai India.
With sadness we inform of the passing of Chaim Greenberg, a long time member of the Crown Heights Community on Monday night.
As evacuees of the Woolsey fire in Southern California returned home to their respective communities, they focused was on how they could help others who had suffered losses while simultaneously returning life to normal for themselves.
A newspaper article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, printed in 1929, has been unearthed that speaks about the Frierdicker Rebbes visit to America.
Al-Jazeera TV reported that an agreement was reached between Israel and Hamas on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The agreement was reportedly obtained by Egyptian mediation.
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