A stewardess of Israel’s El Al airline died Tuesday, following a months-long battle with measles. The 43-year-old stewardess was infected with the measles virus during a flight from New York to Israel five months ago.
Art studios and trendy eateries vie for space among authentic Polish bakeries and converted warehouses in Greenpoint. Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood, with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline just across the East River, is gentrifying. High-rises are going up along its waterfront, and now the eclectic neighborhood has got its own Greenpoint Chabad House—Jewish Center.
The central business district of Sydney was put on lockdown, Tuesday afternoon Sydney time, after a man allegedly stabbed pedestrians there. The alleged stabber was reported to have stabbed two people before being stopped and arrested. The motive behind the stabbing is still unknown.
A Crown Heights Shul was broken into early Monday morning, leaving the shul in shambles, and items worth thousands of dollars stolen. The break in is under investigation.
Everyone loves a challenge, but how well do you think you will do on a music challenge? Here is Jewish Music Challenge #2, where you try to guess the song, sung by someone without a clue. To help you out, the original singers of the songs then step in, to erase any confusion.
While on a call for a suspicious package, a bag found by an alert Shomrim volunteer in a Crown Heights alleyway turned up more than what was expected. The police were called, and a paintball gun was confiscated along with an assortment of tools.
Panama’s Shluchim, Yakov and Hana Poliwoda, have taken on what parents and educators are touting as the future of education, vocational Yeshivos. The shluchim are pioneering a new vocational Yeshiva in Panama, in a Chassidush enviroment.
In a statement released by the governors office, Governor Andrew Cuomo directed the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to investigate the recent attacks on Hasidic Jews in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
“SheYavo,” a newly released music video by Avi Ilson brings Moshiach to the forefront, with a crew of Lubavitchers and a old Volkswagen.
A shocking photo has surfaced showing a man entering a Crown Heights location before stealing from it. The shocking part, his face is covered, and he is holding a machete.
Mendel Greisman (Crown Heights) to Rochel Soussan (Montreal, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel
A prominent Guatemalan supporter of Israel who once said, “He who is Israel’s enemy is Guatemala’s enemy,” won the country’s presidential election with 58.5 percent of the vote, results on Monday confirmed.
An ambitious project spanning a number of years, involving dozens of knowledgeable translators and editors throughout Russia, has finally succeded in spreading Yiddishkeit and Chassidus to Russia’s knowledge-thirsty Jews.
A new journal on Chof Av has recently been published. The journal was authored by Shlomo Mordechai Hamburger, a lawyer and a board member of Chabad on Campus International, and published by the Jewish Enrichment Press (JEP).
A Crown Heights resident penned the following thank you letter to the Crown Heights’s 71st Police precinct, after they stepped up, and changed an entire Crown heights block for the better.
A tire slashing spree in Lakewood over shabbos is now being investigated as a hate crime, after 57 cars had their tires slashed, all of them Jewish.
Photo Gallery: Tisha B’av in Paris, France. Photos by Morde’hai Lubecki
