Lubavitcher Joins Ted Cruz Campaign
Rabbi Shmully Hecht, founder of the Shabtai Society at Yale University, has joined the presidential campaign of Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
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IDF Soldiers Narrowly Escape Lynching
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.
Young Shlucha Named Montana’s 2016 Champion Child
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.
Video: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People
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.
Picture of the Day: Animated Chasidic Discussion
Noted Professor Dr. Tali Loewenthal of University College-London was spotted discussing concepts in Chassidus with a Yeshiva Bochur at a wedding in London.
Chabad at Union College Combats Hunger with Challah
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.
New Engagement!
Zalman Ceitlin (Montreal, Canada) and Mati Gordon (Crown Heights)
71st Precinct Getting New Commanding Officer
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.
New Engagement!
Gershon Muchnik (Crown Heights) and Chaya’le Gluckowsky (Crown Heights)
File photo: MTOPP activists protest real estate development. An MTOPP flyer.
CB-9 Member Responds to Anti-Semitic Letter
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.
Stabber May Have Been Spotted Near Beis Rivkah
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.
Baby Boy!
Yehudah and Michal (nee Perman) Kirsh (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Avremel Bernstein (Toronto, Canada) and Chevy Munitz (Buffalo, NY)
Moscow Yeshiva Students ‘Farhered’ by Tzfas Chief Rabbi
Amid a prolonged visit to Moscow, Rabbi Shmuel Eiyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfas, visited the local chapter of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim, where he tested the students on various subjects, and expressed amazement as to their proficiency in their studies.
The NYPD's 71st Precinct
71st Precinct Second-in-Command Disciplined
Captain Scott Forster, second-in-command at the 71st Precinct, was stripped of his badge and gun and placed on ‘modified assignment’ for choosing to clock out and go home in the aftermath of the shooting of two police officers in Bud-Stuy, both of whom were rushed to Kings County hospital – located in his precinct – for treatment, instead of staying behind to help organize visits for the wounded cops’ families.
11,695 Israeli Students Join Chabad Shabbos Meals
In most institutes of higher learning in Israel, the winter semester ends now. The students are perhaps leaving for a brief vacation, but at the headquarters of Chabad on the Campus, work continues round the clock.
Mikvah.org Presents Evening with Renowned Therapist
The Mikvah Organization/Mikvah.org will be presenting a complimentary evening out, featuring the inspiring Lisa Twersky, LCSW, renowned therapist, author and lecturer.
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