After losing an appeal to Michigan’s Supreme Court last May, which dismissed his lawsuit against the Bais Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, Rabbi Berel Shemtov has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to gain possession of the deed to the recalcitrant Chabad center.
The Kallah was from far-off Chicago, the Chosson a student at Yeshivas Hadar Hatorah for Ba’alei Teshuvah. Most expected theirs to be a small wedding, with only a few family members and friends in attendance. Instead, the wedding hall was packed to capacity, and attendees said it was one of the most joyous weddings to take place in Crown Heights in years.
Tzvi and Pearl Rimler (Crown Heights)
Swedish international apparel chain H&M received mixed reviews on social media for offering a scarf for purchase that looks like a Jewish prayer shawl, also known as a tallit.
Miami Police and prosecutors say Deandre Charles is a cold-blooded killer who shot Rabbi Joseph Raksin – who was visiting from Crown Heights, Brooklyn – after trying to rob him and getting away with nothing. But during two interrogations with police that were released through court discovery, Charles is heard maintaining his innocence in multiple interviews with detectives.
Rabbi Avraham Korf, the Head Chabad Shliach to the state of Florida, is suing the city of Miami Beach after the annual Chanukah parade he organizes every year was shut down by police, with 30 tickets cited to participants.
A Frum father of four from Melbourne, Australia, is fighting for his life after suffering critical head injuries in a mysterious incident in the middle of the night at an area Country Club.
Sam Orelowitz was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August of 2014.
Nearly 74 years ago, a pair of young Jewish women left their hometown in southwest Poland, on a transport to a Nazi concentration camp. Both survived the Holocaust, but went their separate ways after World War II.
Lubavitcher filmmaker Menachem Weinstein stopped random people on the streets of New York City to find out if they were willing to do something to change the world.
A manhunt for the suspect in a Tel Aviv shooting attack moved beyond the Tel Aviv area on Wednesday, as Palestinian Nishat Milhem evaded security forces for the 6th straight day.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Va’eira. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why didn’t Pharaoh’s magicians show up to challenge Moses and Aaron during the sixth plague of boils? What special act did Moses do to totally baffle and silence them? And what lesson do we learn from it in our lives?
This past Motzei Shabbos, the study hall of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim of Kiryat Gat was transformed, as dozens of ‘Mekurovim’ from throughout southern Israel who are visited on Fridays by students of the Yeshiva gathered for a Melave Malka and evening of unity.
A rash of minivan break-ins has been plaguing an area in Crown Heights over the past couple of weeks.
Cheder Chabad Girls of Long Island opened its doors for students on September 1st with pre1a, 1st and 2nd grades. It is located in Lynbrook, NY.
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