Over two-hundred state and federal judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, scholars and prison officials attended the first ever Alternative Sentencing Key Stakeholders Summit this past week to advance criminal justice reform nationwide. The summit was hosted by the Aleph Institute, the premier Jewish organization that cares for the institutionalized and their families, founded at the express direction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Crown Heights is geared up and ready to greet a group of young scholars who have mastered the 613 Mitzvos and will be competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals in the International 613 Mitzvos Chidon Competition.
After searching for years in ashrams in India and yeshivas in Jerusalem, Reform Rabbi Burt Siegel finally reconnects with his Judaism — in a New York City Chabad House.
This morning, a car parked on Crown Heights’ busiest thoroughfare was burglarized in broad daylight, yet the thief perpetrated his crime unhindered.
Nadav Frieder (Ramat Yishai, Israel) and Michal Dean (Crown Heights)
Levi Glick (Crown Heights) and Lulu Roth (Miami Beach, FL)
Dovid and Mushkie Liberow (Westwood, CA)
Mr. Michael (Michel) Allouche lives with his wife and family in Israel, where for the past 24 years he has worked as an internationally recognized expert in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studios in January of 2016.
On ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show, Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, along with co-host Marc Gronich, interviewed New York State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Queens), who called for the suspension of state funds for the Students for Justice in Palestine at CUNY.
Before his diagnosis of ALS, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz wrote and composed a song titled “Shine a Little Light”, an upbeat and inspirational song which was left and forgotten on an old memory disc, after being recently found, it was brought to life like never before. The song was performed by 15 leading artists from around the world in an amazing compilation.
Chani (Anne) Neuberger, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a father who escaped communist Hungary, said she feels both gratitude toward the United States and a sense of commitment as an observant Jew.
Chabad of Orange County, NY, led by Shluchim Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, held a family-fun Indian-themed Purim party for the local Jewish community at the American Legion Banquet Hall in Monroe.
Maria has been a prisoner in Leningrad Region’s Kolonia No. 2 for the last eight years. Born to a poor Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, for a time she attended the city’s Chabad Jewish school and other community programs. It was later that she got into serious trouble with the law, ending up at a women’s prison camp about an hour’s drive southeast of her native city. But some good news came on Monday, when Maria and 13 other Jewish women were on hand for the opening of the first-ever prayer room for Jewish female prisoners in the country.
Dovid and Chana Raizel (nee Glassner) Zaklikowski (Crown Heights)
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, a senior adviser to Borough President Eric Adams who has close ties to disgraced Brooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman Jr., is putting the heat on Community Board-9 – which encompasses most of Jewish Crown Heights – to hire Norman’s ex-campaign treasurer, Carmen Martinez, as district manager — even though she was previously forced out of a city job for committing fraud.
The Algemeiner unveiled its 3rd annual ‘Jewish 100′ list of the top people “positively influencing Jewish life” on Monday night, at a star-studded gala in Manhattan, presided over by publisher Simon Jacobson and editor-in-chief Dovid Efune. Honorees in attendance included Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove, News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch and famed philosopher and humanitarian Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Right before purim, Rabbi Moishe and Mushkie Gurevitz (nee Wolvovsky), together with their children, Menachem and Esther, moved to Morristown, NJ, as the new Shluchim to serve the Young Jewish Professional community in Morristown.
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