Like many young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Jacobs grew up watching and learning how to serve a Jewish community directly from his parents, who have run a Jewish pre-school in Cleveland for many years.
An app that can differentiate between a variety of crying sounds made by babies has been developed by Taiwanese researchers.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Friday, January 1, for New Year’s.
Sholom Kanevsky (Crown Heights) and Sari Flint (Crown Heights)
A Palestinian terrorist rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem.
In honor of its 60th year campaign, we present to our readers a selection of six never-released-before pictures of Oholei Torah, taken in the 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
Rabbi Zev Segal (1917–2008) served for 33 years as the rabbi of the Young Israel of Newark. He held various leadership positions with the Rabbinical Council of America, including that of president from 1968 to 1971. After his retirement from the rabbinate, he devoted most of his time to working for Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in May of 2007.
Police are investigating an unprovoked assault on an Orthodox-Jewish student of Medgar Evers college in Crown Heights as a possible hate crime.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the United States spied on Israeli officials during Iranian nuclear talks, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. According to the report appearing on Tuesday, the National Security Agency was instructed to monitor the Israelis during the sensitive talks, highlighting the extent of mistrust that exists between Washington and Jerusalem.
Talented Rabbis and CPDs (Co-Program Directors) Levi Druin and Lavi Klein are at the forefront of Wayz, Darchai Menachem’s revolutionary Enrichment Program. In honor of this year’s Hakhel theme, the dedicated CPDs have chosen unity-themed projects to enhance the students’ Jewish pride.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Shemot. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: If Moses and Aaron weren’t enslaved to Pharaoh, then why didn’t they just enjoy their own freedoms and stop sticking their nose into Egyptian politics?
Yossi and Naomi (nee Katz) Kopfstein (Crown Heights)
As Oholei Torah launches its 60th Year campaign, a Charidy drive will be held over the next 24 hours with the goal of raising $2,000,000 for the venerable institution.
Zevi Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) and Luba Gurkov (Oceanside, NY)
The Florida State Attorney’s Office has released two photos of the suspect as evidence in the murder case of a Crown Heights rabbi while he was visiting Miami.
Gennady Kaufman, the 41-year-old victim of terrorist stabbing attack at the beginning of the month near the Me’aras Hamachpela in Chevron, died of his wounds at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.
A fire broke out this morning on the 5th floor of a Crown Heights apartment building, located at 560 Lefferts Ave. near the corner of Kingston Ave.
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