Temperatures in the Tri-State area are set to soar above 90 degrees Wednesday. A heat advisory is in effect through 6 p.m. Thursday. 90-degree weather will feel more like mid to upper 90s both Wednesday and Thursday.
A second case of a rare tick-borne virus called Powassan Virus has been confirmed in Upstate New York. A 75-year-old man died last month after being confirmed as the first case of the virus in the state, though medical professionals say the disease has not been proven to be the cause of death.
Judaism teaches “Who is considered rich? The one who is happy with what he has.” In other words, richness is much more about mindset than money. How do we develop this mindset?
A Jewish woman claims that she, her husband and three children were kicked off a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York on July 2 without any explanation.
A thief was caught on surveillance video stealing a package off the stairs of a Crown Heights home, located on Carroll Street near Schenectady Avenue, after it was left there by the U.S. Postal Service.
Some 300 Jews in their 20s and 30s gathered recently on the scenic Bower Rooftop of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, mingling on the sundrenched deck in the hours before Shabbat. They enjoyed hors d’oeuvres and good company, with many taking part in mitzvahs like wrapping tefillin and lighting Shabbat candles.
A special groundbreaking ceremony took place in Sylvania Township, Ohio, last Sunday: construction is now officially underway for the new Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Toledo, led by Rabbi Yossi Shemtov.
Mordechai Gutnick (Los Angeles, CA) and Sara Gila Brooks (Edgware, England) .
Moshe and Jana (nee Grunblatt) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Yosef and Miriam (nee Giter) Assayag (Chicago, IL)
The directors of Camp Gan Yisroel-Montreal expressed their appreciation to their dedicated staff with a delicious Chinese takeout dinner and entertainment after the campers went to sleep.
A video titled “With Goodness I Shall Sleep”, created as part of Mivtzah for a Yeshivas Kayitz Program, expounding on the importance of Krias Shema is fast becoming popular after making rounds on social media.
Mushky, a young Crown Heights mother, composed this poem to express her thoughts and feelings on the Tznius issue facing our community, with whom she chose to share it.
Zalman and Ruchama (nee Adelist) Glassner (Melbourne, Australia)
Skverer Chosid Reb Zisha Schmeltzer, older brother of singer Lipa Schmeltzer, tells the story he experienced with the Lubavitcher Rebbe when he traveled to the collapsing USSR to aid Jewish people living there.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that ParkNYC, a new and convenient way to pay for on-street parking in New York City, is now available to drivers in all five boroughs with this week’s activation of the program in Queens.
Yeshivas Kayitz Kingston, an affiliate of Educational Institute Oholei Torah, has grown to be one of the most sought after overnight Yeshiva Summer programs, even though it is relatively one of the newest Chabad camps established.
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