Paltiel “Paul” Ratzenberg studied communications at University of Cincinnati and is currently enrolled in Mayanot Institute in Jerusalem. Yesterday, he took to the pages of Buzzfeed to give a list of “10 campus rabbis who are even more legendary than their impressive facial hair.”
This past Motzei Shabbos, Friendship Circle of Brooklyn families joined together for an evening of unity. A crowd of over 100 people spilled into the Friendship Circle’s ‘Living room’ for a unique Hakhel event. “It was a true celebration of community,” says director Mrs. Chani Majesky.
The NYPD’s Crime Stoppers program has upped the reward for information leading to the arrest of the man responsible for stabbing Leiby Brikman on the streets of Crown Heights three weeks ago to $12,500.
Mendel Katz (Los Angeles, CA) and Mushkie Lewin (Sandton, South Africa)
Rabbi Shmully Hecht, founder of the Shabtai Society at Yale University, has joined the presidential campaign of Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Last night, the IDF launched a dramatic rescue operation to extract two soldiers who accidentally strayed into a Palestinian neighborhood in north Jerusalem, and found themselves in the midst of a massive riot. Five soldiers were injured amid the rescue operation.
Zeesy Bruk, the five-year-old daughter of the Shluchim to the state of Montana Rabbi Chaim and Chavie Bruk, has been named ‘Montana’s 2016 Champion Child’ by the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, due to her courageous battle with GLUT-1 Deficiency, a rare genetic metabolic disorder.
A peek at the headlines invariably leads to that hardest of questions: If G-d is just, why do bad things happen to good people? Rabbi Manis Friedman offers surprising insights, perspectives, and paradigm changers in this video produced by Torah Cafe.
Noted Professor Dr. Tali Loewenthal of University College-London was spotted discussing concepts in Chassidus with a Yeshiva Bochur at a wedding in London.
Last Thursday and Friday, Chabad of Union College and the Empty Bowls Project held a bake sale of kosher, homemade challah on campus to promote unity and fight hunger in Schenectady, NY.
Zalman Ceitlin (Montreal, Canada) and Mati Gordon (Crown Heights)
A number of changes and transfer orders have come in the NYPD and among those changes will see the 71st Precinct getting a new commanding officer. Captain Norman Grandstaff, formerly the commander of the 69th Precinct will take the helm in place of Inspector George Fitzgibbon.
Gershon Muchnik (Crown Heights) and Chaya’le Gluckowsky (Crown Heights)
Alicia Boyd, founder of the Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), an organization dedicated to fighting rezoning and development in Crown Heights, sent an e-mail to all members of Community Board-9 that contained some inflammatory language against Jews and white people, and which seemed to justify the Crown Heights riots of 1991. One recipient of the e-mail, board-member Yaacov Behrman, took it upon himself to respond.
Mrs. Rivkah Brikman, whose son Leiby was stabbed on the streets of Crown Heights earlier this month, has a troubling message for the residents of the neighborhood: her son’s attacker may have been spotted near the Beis Rivkah girls’ school, and the NYPD’s crime tip line did nothing to apprehend him.
Yehudah and Michal (nee Perman) Kirsh (Crown Heights)
Avremel Bernstein (Toronto, Canada) and Chevy Munitz (Buffalo, NY)
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