With the season’s first multi-day heat wave refusing to break, high electricity demand put a lot of stress on the system’s infrastructure, which caused manhole explosions all around Crown Heights.
A dollar van driver plowed into a pedestrian and pinned another between two cars in Crown Heights last week before trying to flee the crash scene on foot, police and prosecutors said.
Rabbi Kuti Rapp, OBM, would customarily lead a Siyum on the completion of every Halacha of Rambam during the annual cycle of study. Shortly after his tragic death by a car accident, upon the completion of Hilchos Parah Adumah, his son, Shneur Zalman Tzemach Rapp, was asked to take his place and lead the Siyum in 770.
Yehoshua and Muki (nee Simpson) Rivkin (Crown Heights)
Shmuli and Mushky (nee Chayempour) Tuvel (Kew Gardens, NY)
The fourth week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Neturei Karta activists attended the annual Al Quds Day rally in Toronto, Canada. The rally, and many like it around the world, are sponsored by the Iranian regime, and calls for ethnic cleansing of Israelis are a common occurrence during them.
School may not be in session, but summertime is busy at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA. LYA organizes a Sizzlin’ Summer Barbecue for the community that grows bigger and better each summer. At the barbecue, people of all ages and from different segments of the community attend, and LYA staff take advantage of the opportunity to shmooze with them.
Chabad.org is once again proud to partner with the NCFJE, which has been broadcasting live siyumim on the radio for over thirty years, to bring you live broadcasts of daily siyumim for the nine days.
Yanky Stambler (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Mushky Duchman (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Moshe Wiener, author of the Sefer Hadras Ponim Zokon on the Halachic prohibition of cutting one’s beard, send us the following letter from the Rebbe to the directors of a summer camp who asked whether it was okay to hire a staff-member who cut his beard.
A shocking and shameful incident has shaken up the Chabad community in Be’er Sheva, Israel: A sign bearing the name of a street named after the Lubavitcher Rebbe, OBM, was vandalized by unknown perpetrators.
The Andrusier family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their daughter and sister, Rochel Leah, OBM, at 619 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]. Men’s hours: Beginning with Shacharis at 7:30am until 12:00pm, and from 3:00pm until 1 hour after Maariv (Bizmano). […]
Statements given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond at the beginning of their recent meeting demonstrate the sharp divide between the two countries on the nuclear deal with Iran.
Although the ‘Nine Days’ are days of mourning for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh, The Rebbe instructed that we find ways to increase in happiness in acceptable ways. Camp Gan Israel in Parksville New York brought the Twin from France to entertain the campers
The looks on their faces—on the kids’ faces—reflected in their parents’ eyes, that’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s always about.
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