As many as nine people were injured, some of them critically, when terrorists opened fire with automatic weapons in the area of Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, Israel. Reports say the terrorists were dressing in Hassidic garb. Update: Four of the victims have died.
A group of young teenagers who were ‘playing hooky’ from a local public school walked past the Oholei Torah Mesivta Boys High School and started an altercation with the students there, which escalated until one Yeshiva student received multiple blows to the head. To make matters worse, police officers refused to take action and as of this moment have still not charged the assailant – citing fear of riots. UPDATE: Police have charged the assailant with assault as a hate crime.
Mendy and Laya (nee Zavdi) Gochafi (Crown Heights)
Shneur Zalman Kreiman (Palm Springs, CA) and Tzipporah Esther Schild (Monsey, NY)
Following a lively debate this afternoon, the New York State Senate, led by Majority Leader John Flanagan, voted to overturn the New York City Council’s recent passage of a plastic bag tax.
Avremi Raichik (Los Angeles, CA) and Rivky Hartman (Crown Heights)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Dovid Shloush, OBM, the chief Sephardic rabbi of Netanya, who was a dear friend of the Chabad community and the proud grandfather and great-grandfather of several Chassidim of the Rebbe. He was 96 years old.
Mendel Ezagui (Crown Heights) and Shaina Rabinowitz (Montreal, Canada)
About a year ago, Chabad of East Boca Raton, Florida, under the leadership of Rabbi Ruvi New, got approval from the city to begin construction on a magnificent synagogue and community center. Neighbors immediately filed three separate lawsuits to stop the project, and this morning, they prevailed in one of them.
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Walter Mosley, whose district includes parts of Crown Heights, for a TV talk show called ‘The Jewish View,’ which he co-hosts with Marc Gronich.
After many years of delay, government officials in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad (which was formerly the German city of Konigsberg, annexed by Russia following WWII) approved the rebuilding of one of Europe’s most magnificent synagogues, which was destroyed on the eve of Kristalnacht in 1938.
A group of students of central Lubavitcher Yeshiva pose for a group portrait at the wedding of one of their colleagues. Can you identify anyone in the photo, or where or when it was taken?
On Thursday, May 19, more than fifty Jewish students gathered together at Chabad of Union College for a fun, meaningful, and of course, delicious Mega Challah Bake.
The Brownstoner, a Brooklyn Real Estate news outlet, profiled an unassuming two-story Crown Heights building that has over a dozen duplicates all over the world: 770 Eastern Parkway.
Billed as a ‘no frills’ fundraising campaign, thousands of dollars were raised this past “Shabbos Hatzalah” in Shuls all over Crown Heights through special appeals.
The Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School in Stamford Hill, London, earned plaudits from the UK Government’s Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education), which labeled it a good school after it showed strong improvements following substandard rankings in previous years.
During the week of Lag Ba’omer, 5,000 Jewish children signed up at KidsTorah.org to acquire letters for the sixth Children’s Torah, an initiative launched by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1981.
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