On graduation day June 2015, Emanuelle Hodara, a native of France, proudly accepted her B.S. in Biochemistry with a minor in Biomedical Research from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Hodara and her family left France in 2004, when the resurgent anti-Semitism became too unpleasant. The young immigrant recalls her family feeling targeted everywhere: “in the classroom, in the workspace, from federal officers and from neighbors.”
The Shalom Task Force, a Jewish organization dedicated to fighting domestic abuse, in conjunction with several Crown Heights organizations and sponsors, will be hosting a women’s-only evening of awareness and education on the sensitive subject, featuring as keynote speaker Lisa Twersky, author of: “I’m so Confused, Am I Being Abused?” as well as words of Torah from Rebbetzin Bronya Shaffer, world renowned speaker and educator.
Chabad of the Valley recently held its annual Regional Kinus Hashluchim at its beautiful Chabad center in Encino, California.
As the Kinus HaShluchim is just a few weeks away, the Oholei Torah Archive Office is pleased to share a series of highlights from the alumni reunions held over the past 20 years.
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed and severely wounded an Israeli soldier at an intersection near the holy city of Chevron today, Monday. The terrorist was promptly shot and killed by other soldiers at the scene.
A pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Moroccan city of Casablanca featured men dressed as Orthodox Jews who were being led at gunpoint by masked men wearing Arab ‘keffiyehs.’
Last week, a young Jewish lady I knew from long ago, when she was a child, passed away at the age of twenty-six. She had been ill on and off for the past decade – but for the most part had been healthy until her sudden untimely death.
The Rebbe of Vizhnitz, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager Shlita, on a weeks-long visit to New York, has chosen to reside for the duration of his stay at the home of a Lubavitcher philanthropist on Eastern Parkway.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mr. Mattisyahu (Marty) Kurlander OBM, an attorney who has helped many of Anash in real estate matters. He was 85 years old.
Shimon (ben Avrohom Moishe) Katz (Kensington, NY) and Malky (bas Gavriel) Rosenberg (Boro Park, NY)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 87, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Don’t We Appoint a New Rebbe? Role Models that Disappoint; The Centennial of 16 Cheshvan 1915-2015.
A young girl with special needs was hurt after being struck by a car. Witnesses said the girl was just dropped off and the driver did not wait for the child to safely cross the street.
After a long fundraising campaign, the Chabad House of St. Lazare, Hudson, and Vaudreuil – located in southern Quebec, Canada – welcomed all members of the community to a grand opening ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 18.
Two years ago members of the Jewish community in the Russian city of Kaluga had the cities ancient Shul returned after being shuttered by the communists some 100 years ago. Last week an exhaustive renovation was completed and the Shul rededicated in a joyous ceremony.
Since the April 25 earthquake and the ensuing tremors that devastated of Nepal, some villagers have rebuilt their feeble mud homes, only to see them washed away by mudslides that plague the South Asian nation.
A Jewish man was stabbed twice in the stomach after he intervened in an attack on another Jewish worshiper and a rabbi by a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs near a synagogue in Marseilles, France, Shabbos morning.
Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour (Great Neck, NY)
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