If you do the grocery shopping in your house, you have probably noticed that egg prices are going up again. A dozen large eggs on average costs about $2.76. That’s nearly double the cost they were sold for in April and May. It’s being blamed on an outbreak of bird flu.
For some, this is the reason they come to camp; for everyone, it is a highlight: Color War in Camp Gan Yisroel-NY.
Driving down the tree-lined Rashi Street in this upscale suburb of Tel Aviv, before turning onto Rav Yitzhak Nissim Street one will find a well-kept neighborhood with people out tending their lawns. A short way later there’s a lovely playground and beautiful yard, part of the Ilan Rimon School, where Rabbi Eliyahu and Sima Shadmi run the local Chabad-Lubavitch day camp. Their welcoming countenances extend to both children and adults; their warmth and wide smiles belie the enormous amount of energy humming beneath the surface.
The friends of a 22-year-old Bochur whose health situation is extremely critical after he was diagnosed with the dreaded illness over a year ago have banded together and launched a campaign, whereby people are encouraged to take upon themselves a Hachloto Tova (good resolution) in his honor.
Moshe and Chaya (nee Steinmetz) Gutnick (Crown Heights)
The past president of Chai Riders, a Jewish Motorcycle Club, David Himber lives in Sea Gate, Brooklyn. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in May of 2014.
“Prior to the summer, the Rebbe would – almost annually – discuss the topic of Tznius,” says Crown Heights Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson. At his suggestion, CrownHeights.info presents a weekly feature for the summer months: a short thought of the Rebbe on tznius, as compiled by Rabbi Seligson.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is having a really bad summer. He has been unable to shake a media-driven perception that the Big Apple’s crime-and-homelessness-filled days are returning.
Rabbi Meshulem Feish Lowy, the Tosher Rebbe, known for his magnetic personality and an ever present aura of holiness, died today at the age of 95.
Akiva and Esty (nee Loschak) Steinmetz (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the period of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Two 10-year-olds robbed a 67-year-old woman on a Crown Heights street corner on Monday afternoon, police said. The senior was at Empire Boulevard and Rogers Avenue at 2 p.m. when five tykes approached her, the youngest aged 4, according to the Daily News.
Yehuda Leib and Ariella (nee Hecht) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
Late Tuesday night Shomrim volunteers apprehended a shoplifter who stole 14 bottles of shampoo – totaling $86.95 in value – from the Kol Tuv grocery store.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Re’eh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we naturally follow G-d?
Members of a Chabad congregation in Orlando, Fl., held a special prayer quorum, or minyan, on Sunday to support a Jewish woman who lost her arm after she was attacked by an alligator in a nearby river last Saturday, the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reported.
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