A Crown Heights vehicle became the victim of another act of random vandalism overnight. Video surveillance shows a man hopping onto the hood of a parked vehicle, before putting his foot through the windshield.
Hezbollah terrorists on Friday ignited a fire near the Israeli border. The strong winds fanned the flames, thick smoke covered the Naftali Mountains, and the fire crossed the border into Israel, threatening an IDF base and the Galilee town of Margaliot.
A Crown Heights Hatzalah Volunteer made a Kiddush Hashem, when he found himself in the right place at the right time while driving a school bus through Pennsylvania.
A car crashed nose first into a brick wall following a two car accident in Crown Heights. No one was seriously injured in the accident, and details on how it occurred is still under investigation.
A young woman turned to the Rebbe for advice. She was contemplating marriage to a young man whose level of Jewish observance was quite different from hers. Did the Rebbe think their relationship was viable?
One person was arrested and another is at large following a police pursuit in Crown Heights. The two had broken into a school bus, stolen a fire extinguisher and discharged it into shops on Kingston Ave.
The body of Israeli hiker Aya Na’amana, a 22-year-old student from Araba in the Galilee, was found in Ethiopia. Na’amana went on a trip as part of a Technion delegation, where she studied as a student. She became separated from the group during a trip to the Salt Desert in Danakil, Ethiopia.
A Chof Av tribute event is planned for the Crown Heights community on Tuesday evening, the Yartzeit of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Shneerson z”l. The event will feature famed lecturer Rabbi Shais Taub, as well as entertainment by singer Eli Marcus.
Three terrorists were killed attempting to infiltrate Israel from the Gaza Strip overnight Saturday, according to reports by Arab media sources. IDF forces had spotted the terrorists attempting to cross the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip. An IDF helicopter and tank fired at the terrorists to prevent the infiltration, reportedly killing three and injuring a fourth terrorist.
Its hallowed walls smeared with sordid anti-Semitic graffiti after being taken over by squatters for the past two decades, one of Buenos Aires’s oldest synagogues has been reclaimed through the efforts of a local Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, backed by an order of law issued by a municipal judge.
Yeshiva Students Chananya Niasoff and Mendel Wilhelm visited over 20 prisons in Upstate New York. They are sent as representatives from the Lubavitch Youth Organization and the Aleph Institute.
Rents are rising while concessions are falling in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but the opposite is happening in Queens, according to Douglas Elliman’s July report on the city’s rental market. Manhattan’s median rent increased by 5.7 percent year over year to hit $3,595, and Brooklyn’s median rent went up by 1.7 percent to hit $3,000, a new record for the borough.
On the final Friday of the summer, campers and staff gathered to mark camp’s Bar Mitzvah year by celebrating the achievements of all campers as part their 13th annual MBP Award ceremony.
Rocket sirens sounded in the city of Sderot and nearby Israeli communities on Friday evening. 15 Rockets were reported to have been fired from Gaza, and locals have reported hearing explosions.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Parshas Veschanon:
As this coming Wednesday, is chof Manachem Av, the seventy-fifth yahrzeit of the Rebbe’s father, HaRav Levi Yitzchok, many of the stories that are related to him, especially during the final years of his life, bring out his firm belief that nothing – even the frost of the Siberian winter – can cool off a Jew’s connection to Hashem. The essence of a Jew is always warm to Hashem.
Singer Shalom Bernholtz has released a lyrics video for his new song, “Hazman Shel Hasimha.” The upbeat song puts you in a happy mood, and will get you dancing.
