New Engagement!
Meir Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ) and Shaina Matusof (Madison, WI)
News Sites Take a Break for Mivtzoim on Israeli Independence Day
For the first time since they were founded, the two flagship Chabad news websites in Israel – Shturem.net and Chabad Online (COL) – have gone offline for the day. The cause of the outage is not any sort of technical difficulty – but Mivtzoim!
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Aron Hersh (Richie) and Chanie (nee Levitin) Richter (Queens, NY)
Video: Aggressive Panhandler Steals Bicycle
Following our news report on a belligerent and aggressive Crown Heights beggar who assaulted a man on Kingston Ave. earlier this week, the administration of 1414 President St., the dormitory of the Central United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, sent us a video of the same man stealing a bicycle from the front of the building.
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Meir and Chanie (nee Tarlow) Perelstein (Crown Heights)
Picture of the Day: Rainbow Over Crown Heights
After a brief but forceful downpour yesterday afternoon, a vivid and easily identifiable rainbow formed over the neighborhood.
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Mendel and Shani (nee Thaler) Bennish (Crown Heights)
Here’s My Story: The Tefillin Campaign
Rabbi Chaim Jacobs and his wife Sora have been the co-directors of Lubavitch of Scotland for the past 45 years. Rabbi Jacobs was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in May of 2014.
Video: New York City Rises Through History
The newly constructed One World Trade Center’s elevators will feature a stunning visual display of New York’s skyline as it developed over the last 500 years. As the elevator rises, the Big Apple’s skyline rises with it through history.
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Zalman and Bluma Gitel (nee Sufrin) Whitt (Oak Park, MI)
Rabbi Elio (Eliyahu) Toaff, Chief Rabbi of Rome for Half a Century, Passes at 99
Rabbi Elio (Eliyahu) Toaff, chief rabbi of Rome and a leader of Italian Jewry for more than 50 years, passed away on Sunday at the age of 99.
NY Bill Would Eliminate Statute of Limitations for Child Abuse
A group of advocates is asking New York state lawmakers to eliminate the statute of limitations on instances of abuse committed against minors.
Rabbi Settles Lawsuit with Oligarch
A London-based Russian oligarch who was sued by his own rabbi over two major London property deals has settled the case out of court.
Op-Ed: Why Did Airplane Passengers Ignore Chabad Woman’s Warning?
Rachel Delia Benaim wrote the following op-ed, which was published in The Forward, explaining why she believes an airplane full of passengers ignored a Chabad woman’s warning that something was wrong with the aircraft.
770 Named ‘Unofficial’ Brooklyn Landmark
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams declared April as “Brooklyn Landmarks Month” to honor its 21 historic districts, two interior landmarks and roughly 100 individual landmarks — from the Grand Army Plaza to the Williamsburg Savings Bank to Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel.
Chabad at Lehigh U. Moves into New, larger Home
Chabad at Lehigh was established in 2008 with the dream of creating a “home away from home” for the Lehigh Jewish community. Since then, it has seen growth that cannot be contained in its current 2,500-square-foot townhouse on Evans Street. A new house is being built to provide the much-needed space to accommodate and expand the growing programs and events.
New Engagement!
Moishe (ben Moty) Scheinfeld (Crown Heights) to Frayda Aber (Sydney, Australia)
