Mrs. Chana Sharfstein is a noted author, educator and tour guide. During March of 2014 her daughter, Zlata Ester, passed away at the age of 53. Mrs. Sharfstein published Zlata’s Story, a book describing the experiences of a mother raising an autistic daughter. She was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in April of 2014.
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A brick, aimed at the head of a Jewish bus driver, thankfully missed its mark and instead struck the mirror and body of the bus, causing significant damage. The young teenagers who threw the brick fled into an adjacent subway station and onto the train tracks.
Avremy Wolff (Morristown, NJ) and Devorah Leah (bas Moshe) Rubashkin (Crown Heights)
The proposed five-cent tax on plastic shopping bags being considered by the NYC Council will hurt real New Yorkers, argues Councilman David Greenfield.
After years of delays, Israel may open offices in its Brussels headquarters, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) advised Jerusalem on Tuesday, and may complete the process of credentials for its representatives, the Foreign Ministry stated.
World-renowned cantor Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Helfgot was recently naturalized as a U.S. citizen. To celebrate the occasion, he sang part of the American National Anthem right outside the courthouse on the streets of New York.
Yossi and Brocha (nee Dalfin) Feiner (Hallandale, FL)
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On a recent Tuesday night at the Chabad House Bowery on the Lower East Side, a crowd began to form. Tables covered in craft paper filled the room, tea lights flickering in mason jars. At a long table at one end, servers set up paper plates and jugs of ice tea — but no food. “Jazzie’s running late,” explained Matt Glick, the Chabad House chief of staff.
Following extensive military operations in near the Gaza border, Israeli Defense Forces have discovered two subterranean terror tunnels spanning from Gaza into Israel. Israel revealed today that the successful operations were based on information gleaned from a captured Hamas terrorist.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Sarah Springer, OBM, who was one of the founding settlers in Kfar Chabad after its founding in 1949 along with her husband Reb Yankel Springer, OBM.
Shalom Katz (Montreal, Canada) and Rivkah Muller (Columbia, SC)
The Jewish community of Hungary celebrated the restoration of the 200-year-old Great Synagogue in Budapest.
Shmary and Devorah Leah (nee Lerman) Gurary (Crown Heights)
A two-and-a-half-year-old Orthodox-Jewish toddler died this morning in a freak elevator accident in Antwerp, Belgium.
For Jewish patients in Essex and Morris counties in northern New Jersey, observing Shabbat in the hospital has become much easier, thanks to a little “thinking outside the box.” Or, perhaps, in it, as part of a program called “Shabbat in a Box.”
Yesterday, Tuesday, some 800 Jewish students from Russia, along with 40 Shluchim, took part in the opening of this year’s March of the Living in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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