In a bid to combat ‘fashionable’ anti-Semitism in France, photographer Sacha Goldberger created and captured humorous scenes of daily life as a Chasidic Jew in Crown Heights, while educating the viewers about Jews and Judaism.
The FDNY is celebrating plans for a futuristically designed firehouse that will set the standard in modern fire department amenities. In a structure that is planned to be completed in 2018, firefighters will have the space and built-in features to expand their ability to recognize and tackle dangerous fires.
A 60-year-old Israeli woman became a proud mother of healthy baby girl this morning in the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot.
Students and faculty of Yeshiva Torah Ohr of North Miami Beach pose for a group photo with head shliach to the state of Florida for 57 years Rabbi Avrohom Korf. After the photo, Rabbi Korf treated the students to a farbrengen, where he expressed his nachas to visit the only yeshiva in the Southern U.S. that is still open during the summer months.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Matos-Maasei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you keep Hashem’s memory alive?
NYPD Commissioner William Bratton will announce today that he is resigning and will be replaced by Chief of Department James O’Neill, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Nachman Yaakov Ziskind OBM, a father of four and resident of Crown Heights. He was 54 years old.
Mendel and Chaya Rochel (nee Kershner) Schachter (Melbourne, Australia)
The Chabad Hebrew Academy of San Diego, CA, led by Rabbi Yosef Fradkin, switched over to solar energy for all their electrical needs last March and declared “energy independence.” Now they are seeing savings of $169,000 each year, reports the S. Diego Jewish Journal.
A large group of enthusiastic Jewish students from Odessa, Ukraine, visited Israel on a Taglit Birthright trip last week.
Most parents drop their children off at preschool and then move on with their day. At this northern Manhattan school, the parents follow their kids right through the front door.
Mendy and Chaya Sara Blachman (Edmonton, Canada)
Dovid and Binie Holtzberg (Crown Heights)
There’s a lot that needs to get done every day at Junior Gan Israel Day Camp in Skokie, Ill. A staff member needs to stand at the entrance of a camp building, and open the door for campers and parents as they arrive each morning. There are towels that need folding—a big job because the camp, rather than wasting paper towels, uses lots of hand towels in an effort to be green, according to director Zeesy Posner. And there are paintbrushes that need washing.
In this shocking video, a Palestinian father can be seen telling his young son to throw rocks at heavily armed IDF soldiers. The father yells at the soldiers to shoot the child so that it could be captured on video. Watch how the soldiers respond instead.
Beloved Crown Heights personality ‘Charlie Buttons’ is unfortunately in the hospital due to health complications, and his brother requested that Tehillim be recited on his behalf. His name is Tzaddik haLevi ben Masha Ruchel.
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