A peaceful morning stroll by a group of elderly Jewish women on a promenade overlooking sweeping vistas of Jerusalem quickly devolved into a bloody nightmare, when two young masked Palestinian terrorists stalked and stabbed two of the octogenarians in their backs.
A secular Israeli bus driver assaulted an Orthodox-Jewish passenger and shouted “we must kill all the Dossim!” – a pejorative term used to refer to Haredim in Israel – after falsely accusing him of not having paid the bus fare. It was the third such attack in as many days.
Nearly 200 Jewish passengers were singled out and removed from an EasyJet flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Paris, France, last week. The travelers, who were mostly returning home from Passover vacation spent in Spain, were escorted off the flight by Spanish armed police officers.
Chabad Shliach and activist Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, director of the organization Yad B’Yad, met with Israel’s highest-ranking police officer, Inspector General Roni Alshich, with whom he shared a warm embrace.
Shluchim from the Scandinavian countries gathered this weekend in Stockholm, Sweden, for a regional Kinus, which has become a tradition over the last three years. The guest of honor at the kinus was Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, the vice chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch.
The proud parents and grandparents of the students of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Pre-1A gathered to celebrate the Talmidim’s Siddur party.
A group of talented students at the Yeshiva in Wilkes-Barre, PA, created this video showing how routine sounds can be utilized to make artificial ‘Sefirah Music.’
Hundreds gathered in Illford and Stamford Hill, London, to partake in the Levaya of Rabbi Moshe Muller OBM, a Shliach and father-of-eight young children who suddenly passed away Sunday.
A new prayer-room was opened in a Moscow penitentiary last week, the 13th place of prayer for Jewish inmates throughout Russia in the country’s jails and penitentiary systems. The new prayer-room is shared with Muslim inmates, and the opening was attended by the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, as well as chief mufti Izrat Halatudinov, generals from the Defense Ministry and city officials.
Bentzi and Osnas (nee Grinman) Cousin (Crown Heights)
The roughly 200 Shluchim working to spread Judaism in Paris and its suburbs gathered for a Kinus, where they were inspired, re-energized and uplifted.
CrownHeights.info has obtained surveillance footage that clearly captured the arson incident which occurred in front of Beis Rivkah Sunday evening, in which a school bus was set ablaze by a group of children.
Last week the executive Vaad of Kinus Hashluchim had their first meeting to start planning the 5777 Kinus that will be taking place some seven months from now.
With great sadness, shock and pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Rabbi Moshe Muller, beloved Shliach in Ilford, UK, and father of seven children. He was 43 years old.
Levaya and Shiva times in extended article.
A school bus was set ablaze Sunday evening in what witnesses say was deliberately set by a group of children.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 114, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Criteria Should We Look for in a Presidential Candidate? Why Worry About the Election if G-d is Running the Show? How Can I Defeat My Snooze Button? How is Judaism’s Notion of a Leader Different to Other Religions’?
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