Parents of students in Beis Rivkah Elementary School were left to fear for their children’s safety after irresponsible rumors and social media hysterics lead some to believe that the school was on ‘lockdown’. School administration said “there was never any concern for the safety of our students, it was just a misunderstanding.”
Rabbi Chaim Meier Halon currently lives with his family in Oak Park, MI. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in February of 2013.
The first time that Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone and his wife, Chana, attended the South by Southwest (better known as SXSW) music, film and interactive festival in Austin, Texas, attendees approached them and said: “We have a rabbi and his family here; we should do something Jewish,” recalls Chana Lightstone.
Shifra and Yaakov Astolin, a young Crown Heights couple with a degree in optometry and an entrepreneurial dream, opened their boutique glasses store in the neighborhood one year ago, with the goal of creating “a different sort of glasses shop than what is typical in this neighborhood.”
In light of a recent article that appeared in the mainstream media, in which Oholei Torah is accused of harboring child abusers, the administration of the Crown Heights boys’ school sent a letter to all parents assuring them unequivocally that there are no abuse of any kind in the school.
Somewhere, recently, there was a shortage of Potato Kugel for Shabbos. Gam Zu Letovah.
Mendy Mishulovin (Los Angeles, CA) and Chani Feigelstock (Pittsburgh, PA)
On Motzoei Shabbos Parshas Vayakhel, United Lubaitcher Yeshiva of Crown Heights hosted an evening of recognition and appreciation for their Rebbis, Morahs, staff and their spouses.
David Fremd, 54, a Jewish merchant in the city of Paysandú, Uruguay, was stabbed to death late Tuesday afternoon. It is being reported that the attacker shouted “Allah Akbar” as he lunged at him.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Pekudei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How should one treat a rebellious person?
New York City building inspectors, accompanied by police officers, fire inspectors and representatives from the mayor’s office of special enforcement, entered the ‘Kvutzeh’ dormitory at 749 Eastern Parkway in order to enforce and verify compliance of a recent vacate order.
Amid a horrific day of terror yesterday in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed and wounded an Orthodox-Jewish man in Petach Tikvah. Despite his injuries, the victim managed to pull the knife from his own neck and kill his attacker with it.
The Jewish community of the greater Los Angeles area turned out in droves Monday night to honor and pay tribute to the life and legacy of Rabbi Joshua B. Gordon, of blessed memory, to mark the Shloshim since his passing.
Motti and Chaya Sara (nee Benshimon) Wilhelm (Crown Heights)
78 years after Kristallnacht, a Torah scroll was introduced to the Berlin Jewish Community amid much fanfare and joy.
Yonasan and Natanya (nee Eliefja) Abrams (Temecula, CA)
Rabbi Sholom Schmerling and his wife Rivka started the Chabad of Venice & North Port, FL, with a handful of people in their living room in 2005. On Sunday, they will break ground on a new 11,000-square-foot synagogue complex on a 4.2-acre campus.
