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.
Two IDF soldiers were injured when a Palestinian driver rammed into a group of IDF soldiers Tuesday on Route 60 near the village of Bet Anoun south of Hebron. They were treated on the spot and evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Camp videographer Motty Reizes captured the third week of excitement, inspiration and fun at Camp Gan Yisroel-New York, featuring visiting day, fireworks and a roller skating trip.
Police have arrested a man who they say vandalized a Colorado Springs Chabad synagogue with the message “”Fight terror, Nuke Israel” last month.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Matos-Massei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we be inspired to continue to grow?
10
