Hatzalah agencies and divisions from across the east coast came together in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, to learn from each other. The event, hosted at Senior Care EMS’s Brooklyn Base, allowed for the agencies to see the different ambulances and equipment used across the agencies.
Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of a 68-year-old man outside a North Miami Beach synagogue last month, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
Three children were struck by a vehicle in Monticello, on Wednesday afternoon, one of them with a serious leg injury. Catskills Hatzolah was on the scene, and requested a chopper to airlift the child.
Rabbi Yisrael Dov Levanoni, 97, known for his scale model of the Beis Hamikdash he presented to the Rebbe, passed away on Wednesday, 20 Av, 5779.
Four rabbis—Yosef Aharonov, Shlomo Cunin, Yitzchak Kogan and Sholom Ber Levine—had been sent to Moscow by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, to bring the library of his predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, unlawfully being held by the Soviet government, back to its rightful place: the Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn, N.Y. This is the story of the KGB’s belated apology for the persecution and death of the Rebbe’s father.
A rocket was launched from Gaza into Israeli territory Wednesday, targeting an IDF base. A “Code Red” alarm was heard in the Nahal Oz military base located a community in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council. According to the IDF, no one was injured and no damage was caused.
This Chof Av, thanks to a visitor at Reb Levik’s Tzion in Alma Atta, you can take a walk through the Tzion on your electronic device. A special program was arranged this year for the 75th Yartzeit.
As CGI Florida completed their 13th summer, the campers and staff posed for group and bunk photos.
The NYPD’s 71st Precinct will be hosting a Build the Block meeting for community members of the area designated as area “Boy” Wednesday evening in Crown Heights. The area is from Empire Blvd to Eastern Parkway, and from Nostrand Ave to Utica Ave.
A heat wave has hit NYC Wednesday, making temperatures soar into the mid 90’s. New York City Emergency Management Department and the Health Department advised New Yorkers to take precautions to beat the heat, with the National Weather Service having issued a Heat Advisory through 8:00pm Thursday evening.
Today, Chof Av, we enter the 40th year anniversary since the Rebbe established Kollel Tifereth Zekainim Levi Yitzchok – the Chabad Lubavitch Torah institute for Seniors. Est. on 20th of Menachem Av 5740/1980. To honor entering our 40th year, Kollel Tifereth Zekainim Levi Yitzchok is launching a grand campaign so that every man, woman and child, in honor of the 75th Hilulah of the Rebbe’s father can participate in spreading Yiddishkeit and chassidus to the thousands of Jewish seniors.
At a special Chof Av event in Alma Atta, with participants from across the globe, a farbrengen was held with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Shapiro, Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchei Temimim Miami, and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky the Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch.
A two-year-old child was pulled out of a pool in Jackson, NJ, on Wednesday morning. Lakewood Hatzolah was on the scene at the incident at around 9:30AM, and found the child in cardiac arrest. After working on the child, Hatzolah Paramedics regained a pulse. The child was being rushed to the hospital.
On Chof Av, the yartzeit of the Rebbe’s father, Reb Levi Yitzchak, a Pan Haklali was read at his Tzion in Alma Atta, Kazahkastan. The Pan was read by Rabbi Moshe Katlarsky, who flew in from New York special for the occasion.
Watch Live at 8:30pm: A Tribute Event for Chof Av will be streamed live from the Jewish Children’s Museum. The event will feature famed speaker Rabbi Shais Taub, and entertainer Eli Marcus.
The Fund that was founded in honor of the Rebbes’s father: What is Keren Levi Yitzchak? What is Magbis? How did Magbis work? Does Magbis still exist?
Yeshivas Kayitz Tzeirei Hashluchim – Tzfas has recently completed a most amazing four day Shabbaton in Yerushalayim. The trip included site seeing, a visit to Yad V’Shem, and a Friday night at the Kosel Hamaravi.
