The body of a dead woman was found wrapped in a blanket on the sidewalk of Union Street near Troy Avenue in Crown Heights. The woman appears to have been murdered, and police say a person of interest is in custody.
As Belgian royals, families of victims marked Wednesday the first anniversary of the Brussels terror attacks which killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at the airport and at a metro station, a remembrance event was held at the European Jewish Building in the heart of the EU institutions.
Kushi and Fraida Malka (new Yarmush) Schusterman (Bel Air, MD)
Israeli police today arrested a 19-year-old Israeli man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S.
Shlomo Leib and Gila Goldman (Crown Heights)
Mr. Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, a real estate developer and philantropist, is the author of A Holocaust Survivor in the Footsteps of His Past. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Los Angeles in September of 2011.
Meir and Chaviva (nee Katz) New (Crown Heights)
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Hachodesh is titled: Bright in the Dark.
Delegate Hillel Neuer responds to Arab Countries’ obsession with denouncing Israel at the UN Human Rights Council.
More than 600 people joined the Rabbinical College of America’s National Founders’ Dinner on March 16th to honor Dr. David Shulkin, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and Israel’s Ambassador Dani Dayan for their dedication and service to the community.
Yossi and Mushka (nee Zalmanov) Greenberg (Oxford, OH)
With sadness we inform you of the passing today of Mrs. Esther Springer-Spalter, OBM, of Kfar Chabad, Israel. She was 84 years old.
The Yad L’Achim organization turned to Education Minister Naftali Bennet earlier this week demanding that he put an immediate halt to all contacts between his ministry and “A New Way,” the NGO that brought Jewish children from Caesarea to a mosque to bow down and pray in keeping with Islamic custom.
Two people have died and other people are being treated for “catastrophic” injuries after an attack near parliament on Wednesday, British news agency Press Association reported, citing a junior doctor at a central London hospital.
Camp Emunah B’nos Yaakov Yehudah is happy to welcome Rabbi Levi and Leah Davidson from Nachlaot, Israel (formerly of Crown Heights) to the BJJ Family.
For two consecutive Sundays during the month of Adar, the six Oholei Torah Pre-1A classes celebrated their siddur parties.
With great sadness we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Rabbi Dovid Steigman, OBM, a beloved member of the Crown Heights community who dedicated his life to the cause of Kashrus. He was 67 years old.
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