Unofficial election results from the New York City November 5th election paint a simple picture on the winners and the losers. By far the biggest loss for the Jewish community is the likely passing of the proposed change to the voting system, making it Ranked Choice Voting.
As the New York City Police Department announced on Tuesday that its hate crimes unit was investigating a series of attacks last Friday night against Orthodox Jews in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, a prominent leader of the community warned that the ongoing threat of antisemitic violence meant that “people in some neighborhoods are scared to leave their houses.”
Listen to new audio of the Rebbe’s farbrengen, collected and cleaned by the Ashreinu team, compared with the previously available version of that recording.
The VIP Business Boot Camp is scheduled to begin this Sunday. VIP partnered with many large companies, so participants can learn business skills through hands on projects and make real money in a Jewish environment.
At the turn of the 20th century, there were so many factories in River North on the north bank of the Chicago River that the smoke billowing from their chimneys often blocked the sunlight. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was known as a deserted and dangerous area of the city. Few could imagine that just a few short decades later, the character of the neighborhood would have made a 180-degree turn into an upscale, hip district full of shops and galleries. Fewer still could imagine that River North would have its own thriving Jewish center.
The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef visited the Rebbe’s Ohel today with Rabbi Yehuda Deri, Chief Rabbi of Beer Sheva, and Knesset member Yoav Tzur, along with a group of Bucharian Rabbis.
Getting your car rummaged through once is a serious breach of privacy, twice a slap in the face. This minivan’s owner found that out after their vehicle was burglurized twice in one week. Both times, the doors of the car were left unlocked, and the thieves just opened the door and helped themselves.
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, will be joining this years International Kinus Hashluchim Gala Banquet as a guest speaker. Ambassador Friedman, who has a strong relationship with Five Towns Shlich Rabbi Zalman Wolowik, has participated in the Kinus Hashluchim Banquet in the past.
Today is the Yahrtzeit of, Rabbi Chaim Bentzion Raski OBM, who He passed away in Leningrad in 1938. A very pious and extraordinary Chossid, he was the patriarch of the great Raskin family. By tremendous divine providence, his grave was just discovered yesterday in Russia.
A new cemetery mapping app, called Gravez, developed by app development company Corido, can be downloaded on any cellphone to help locate kevarim in Israel. The app plans to expand to other countries as well.
The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes recorded in Sweden rose to a record high last year, jumping 53 percent over the 2016 figures, government statistics show.
Elections in New York City could get a lot more chummy, or ugly. A proposed change on up for vote is Ranked-choice voting, which would allow voters to list their favorite candidates in order of preference on their ballots.
Mendel Goldman (Crown Heights) and Chaya Halperin (Allentown, PA)
In a disgusting slap in the face, a Chaverim volunteer in Williamsburg who rushed to help a person with flat tire, was targeted by a traffic agent and ticketed. The officer can be seen writing the ticket as the volunteer continues to do chesed, and help another person in need.
A Colorado man has been arrested for plotting to blow up and poison a local synagogue.according to an affidavit filed Saturday in the US District Court in Colorado. Richard Holzer, 27, a white supremacist, planned to detonate bombs at the Temple Emanuel in Pueblo.
Yossi and Mushka Greenberg (Oxford, Ohio)
In the early years, at the conclusion of Tishrei, the Rebbe would stand outside 770 to see off the guests who had come to spend Tishrei with the Rebbe. See these vintage black and white photos of the Rebbe standing outside 770, seeing off the Tishrei guests.
