New Engagement!
Nissy (Ben Avrohom Moshe) Deitsch (Crown Heights) and Chaya Broner (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
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WiFi, Cell Service: Big Changes Coming to NYC Subway
New York City subway riders will soon have access to Wi-Fi and cellphone service as part of a plan to upgrade an aging transit system that serves 9 million people daily.
Photos: Levaya of Rabbi Bentzion Friedman OBM
Friends and family gathered in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, on Sunday afternoon to partake in the Levaya of Rabbi Bentzion Friedman OBM, who passed away on Erev Shabbos.
Overall Crime in NYC Down, Numbers Reveal Troubling Increases
City and law enforcement officials are touting 2015 as the safest year on record the City of New York, with an overall decrease of 1.7% in crime citywide since the beginning of 2015, though murder, rape and robbery all saw 2 to 6 percent increases.
Photo of the Day – Mivtzoim in the Jewish ghetto
As part of MyShliach’s 17th Regional Shabbaton, which is being held in Venice, Italy, young Shluchim set out in the Jewish Ghetto to do Mivtzoim and put on Tefillin with Jews.
Baby Boy!
Baby Boy!
Mendy and Chaya Greenberg (Wasilla, AK)
Hundreds Turn out in Support of Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Lubavitcher Yeshiva put on a special program for men this Motzai Shabbos with hundreds turning out in support. The program included an auction viewing, delicious hot food three famous resturanst including Izzy’s Smokehouse, Boeuf and Bun and the Sushi Room, topping it all off was a concert with Beri Webber.
Businessman Donates Mansion to Chabad of Worcester
Worcester businessman Barry Krock and his wife, Janet, have donated their $1.5 million mansion to Chabad of Central Massachusetts, directed by Rabbi Mendel Fogelman. The grand home will be converted into a Jewish community center and offices, to be called the “The Krock Family Chabad Center for Jewish Life.”
R. Mendel Gordon to Address Kinus Hatmimim
With just a week and a half left to Yud Shevat, Bochurim around the world are preparing to spend Yud Shvat at the Rebbe’s Ohel and in Crown Heights, learning this year’s Bosi Legani Ma’amorim, and taking on Hachlotos Tovos.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Leah Rosa Friedman, 2, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Leah Rosa Friedman, the 2-year-old daughter of Rabbi Avraham Friedman of Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem, Israel.
Weekly Living Torah Video: The Rebbe on Crime in NYC
This week’s Living Torah from JEM is themed around the crime and its challenges within communities.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Bentzion Friedman, 84, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing shortly before Shabbos of Rabbi Bentzion Friedman, OBM, of Crown Heights, a beloved educator and Lamdan. He was 84 years old.
Weekly Story: Write Your Notes in German
The captain of the boat sounded an alarm; They were spotted by a German Submarine. He announced we must lighten the load and therefor all passengers may keep only one valise or box, everything else must be thrown overboard. The people were scared for their life and obeyed this instruction and shortly afterwards there were hundreds, and indeed thousands of valises floating in the water. Then to everyone’s fright, the German submarine rose out of the water and everyone became petrified.
Baby Boy!
Uri and Chanie (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
H&M Pulls ‘Talis Scarf’ in Israel Due to Backlash
Swedish retailer H&M has pulled the availability of a striped scarp in Israel amid backlash on social media that said the item too closely resembles a Talis (Jewish prayer shawl).
Tel Aviv Gunman Killed
An Arab gunman who killed three Israelis in a Tel Aviv bar last week was killed on Friday in a shootout with police, following a massive manhunt that put Israelis on edge while the killer was on the loose.
