Picture of the Day: Officer Dons Tefilin

With the assistance of Shomrim, an officer from the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Division visited several Crown Heights Jewish day camps to encourage their attendance at the annual NYPD vs. Hatzalah baseball game, which will take place on August 3rd at the Cyclones stadium in Coney Island. Upon discovering that the officer is Jewish, Rabbi Zalman Karp of Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp immediately did what any Chabad Chosid would do, he helped the man put on Tefilin right there in the office.

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Chattanooga Jewish Community Gathers for Healing After Shooting of Five Military Men

As residents of Chattanooga, Tenn., continue to grapple with the killing of five members of the U.S. military last week, about three-dozen members of the Jewish community gathered for Shabbat services at the Chabad-Jewish Center of Chattanooga. Then, on Sunday morning, about 50 people came together for a vigil that included the reading of Psalms, Mishnah study, prayer and candle-lighting.