Weekly deliveries of freshly-baked Challah to Facebook Headquarters by Mrs. Ella Potash, co-Chabad of Redwood City, CA, inspired the creation of Bots for Messanger, a revolutionary new communication medium.
Yossi (ben Menachem) Gurevitch (Crown Heights) and Rosie Deitsch (Columbus, OH)
Police have announced the arrest of a second 11-year-old boy in connection with the arson of a school bus outside a Jewish school in Crown Heights earlier this week.
A thief entered the driveway of Crown Heights home and stole a package that had been left there by delivery personnel. The thief then placed the package in an expensive garbage bin and walked off the property in broad daylight.
Dr. Yaakov Hanoka (1936-2011) was a specialist in solar energy who held 57 patents in the field. He was the founder of Evergreen Solar Inc. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn, New York, in March of 2008.
Over 100 prominent individuals have signed on a letter accusing prosecutors of misconduct in the Rubashkin trial and calling on U.S. Attorney Kevin Techau to correct the “miscarriage of justice” that occurred during the Rubashkin proceedings.
Police are looking for a woman who robbed a man inside his Crown Heights apartment while she was dressed as a Verizon worker.
Mrs. Sonia Hershcovich, of Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Though fame, is very excited to be spending this summer with the girls of Camp Emunah’s Pioneer Program. She is already all packed up, and made this informative video to show exactly how it’s done.
Mendy Bresinger (Montreal, Canada) and Fruma Aber (Sydney, Australia)
An IDF officer was injured on Tuesday evening in a bomb attack near the Hizme Checkpoint on Jerusalem’s northern border.
A child was locked inside a public bathroom in Lefferts Park by a park worker who neglected to check if it was occupied. Firefighters had to cut the high security lock in order to free the child.
The yearly Kinus of the Shluchim to Asia began on Sunday in Bangkok, Thailand. 37 Shluchim families from across Asia are participating in the Kinus that will conclude on Thursday.
A Crown Heights family about to be evicted from their apartment after the father found himself without a job and buried by medical bills. The couple’s child is of marriageable age, but cannot proceed with Shiduchim due to lack of funds.
Families and children affected by the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Mich., will receive an innovative new bathing product designed for use with a minimal amount of water, thanks to the combined efforts of the Chabad of Eastern Michigan, the Jewish Federation of Flint and other local agencies.
For the first time since its founding in 1949, the village of Kfar Chabad in central Israel has assigned names to its streets.
A bold and ambitious plan was presented at a Tuesday night event titled “Solving the Tuition Crisis.” A few hundred men and women joined both in person and online and heard about a plan to raise one hundred million dollars.
The annual Victory Day parade in Moscow this year commemorated 71 years since Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany. On a special podium in the Red Square, they sat side by side. Two revolutionaries. The Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, and the former president of the USSR, Mr. Michael Gorbachev.
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