The Forward yesterday Profiled Shlucha to Columbia University Keren Blum, detailing her journey from an agnostic and rebellious teenager to co-director of a Chabad Center in one of New York City’s most prestigious universities.
A drive-by shooting on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Albany Ave. shortly after Shabbos ended, which shook area residents, was captured on surveillance video.
New ATM cards are on their way to several hundred Apple Bank customers whose cards were deactivated after fraudulent activity was discovered by the bank.
On Monday, May 18, the Monroe post office held a ceremony to mark the naming of the post office for Gregg Wenzel, a Monroe native who died while working for the CIA. After the tragic events on September 11, 2001, Wenzel decided to serve his country and became a member of the CIA in the first post-9/11 recruitment class. At the age of 33, Wenzel lost his life while serving in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 9, 2003.
Kingston Ave. merchants Eber’s Liquer & Wine and Gombo’s Bakery teamed up Sunday to offer the Crown Heights community a pre-Shavuos wine and cheesecake tasting.
Roey Amir, who fought in Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas, wrote to the NY Post about his visit 10-day visit to New York City with other wounded Israeli veterans, organized by Belev Echad, a project of the Chabad Israel Center.
Avraham Lallouz (Montreal, Canada) and Zahava Dahan (Montreal, Canada)
Rabbi Yitzi Horowitz, a California Shliach who is battling ALS, proudly displays a velvet heart that was sewn for him by his daughter, Chavie.
Josh and Avigail (nee Manshari) Wonder (Melbourne, Australia)
On the 28th of Iyar in 1967, Israeli forces liberated the temple mount and the Western Wall in the miraculous 6-Day War. In this photo, taken shortly after the war, a group of schoolchildren from Kfar Chabad can be seen visiting the Kosel for the first time in their lives. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
The French-speaking N’shei Chabad of Crown Heights gathered Thursday for an annual get-together and Challah bake. The event featured a sumptuous Fleishig buffet, inspiring speakers and workshops.
“Help! Come rescue me now, my husband is coming!!” This was the frantic call Yad L’Achim received from Aliza, a Jewish woman who was trapped in an Arab village. Tonight Aliza will be sharing her story at an event in Crown Heights.
Shavuot marks the “giving of the Torah” at Sinai more than 3,300 years ago. That will have even greater meaning this year for 12 communities in four different countries that will be given their very own Torah scrolls for use by the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Beis Yisroel Torah Gemach.
Meir Cohen (Montreal, Canada) and Brocha Finer (Los Angeles, CA)
Shmuli Sasonkin (Akron, OH) and Chayale Dubov (Orlando, FL)
There is great joy for a Bnei Brak family that had a boy today after 46 years of marriage. Shmuel Shachar, 67, and his wife Chaya Shachar, 65, had a baby boy after over four and a half decades of being together without children.
A video that is going viral on social media shows four police officers arresting a man on a Crown Heights street. The incident occurred yesterday, Sunday, on Empire Blvd. between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.
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