For the second year in a row, the Friends of the Young Israel of the West Side has sponsored a billboard in Times Square to commemorate the deaths of Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali, the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered en route home from school in June 2014.
After a year of work, Israeli Chabad singer Alisaf Chefetz has released an upbeat, modern and lively recording of the old Lubavitcher Niggun from Leningrad. The Niggun is currently very popular among Israel’s Orthodox-Jewish community, especially at weddings.
300 parents and guest filled the Bal Harbour ballroom for the CHAP (Community Hebrew After-School Program) Annual Dinner this past Monday. Participants were mesmerized as children ages 5-12 opened up the evening in song and dance, setting the mood for an evening to remember.
Meir and Kayla (nee Coleman) Zaetz (Crown Heights)
On Wednesday morning, 2 Sivan (May 20), close to 750 parents, grandparents, and children gathered to learn together for 40 minutes at Kesser Torah College in Sydney. The project, called Generation Sinai, is aimed at connecting the generations in unity in preparation for receiving the Torah on Shavuot.
139 Finalists are flying in from all over the world for the Boys’ International Chidon Hamitzvos tournament in Crown Heights.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of R’ Yisroel Shaul OBM, a resident of Los Angeles, California. He was 59 years old.
Mrs. Sara Rivka Sasonkin has been teaching in Chabad schools in Israel for the past 43 years. She was interviewed in JEM’s My Encounter studio in New York in November of 2014.
A violent showdown late Wedensday night between two groups of women stemming from a dispute on Facebook left two women stabbed and six others with chemical burns on their faces.
A 911 call regarding gunshots on Sterling Place led officers guided by an NYPD helicopter into the Kvutzeh dormitory on Eastern Parkway where a number of weapons were confiscated from dorm resident.
It’s not all that unusual to discover that rolled inside that decorative mezuzah case you purchased in Israel or at your local Jewish gift shop, is not the scribe’s handiwork on parchment, but a piece of printed paper.
In a segment titled ‘Take a Break,’ James Cordon, the host of The Late Late Show, took over several workers’ shifts at the Western Kosher butcher shop in Los Angeles. His jobs included manning the checkout counter, butchering meat and driving the forklift.
Several “Code Red” sirens were sounded in Southern Israel, Wednesday night. They went off in the cities of Netivot, Ashkelon and the Sdot Negev and Hof Ashkelon regional councils on Wednesday night at around 11:00pm.
Coordinators of the Crown Heights Shomrim met this morning with NYPD Captain Thomas Burke to thank him for going beyond the call of duty in his work together with Shomrim while he was serving as a Captain and Executive Officer in Crown Heights’ 71st Precinct.
Two days after making divisive remarks about the Jewish community during a heated radio interview while discussing Governor Cuomo’s proposed tax credits to provide relief to some private school parents, a Brooklyn Assembly member has issued a formal apology.
The American Jewish Press Association has announced that Chabad.org and writer Dovid Margolin have won the first-place Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in News Reporting for work done in 2014.
116 Girls from around the world competed at the international tournament of the 613 Mitzvos, culminating in the live game show in Crown Heights.
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