Walking up to the guard booth at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Ulpan Etzion, a venerable Hebrew-teaching facility, Rabbi David Sterne informed the guard that he had been invited by a group of students to deliver a Torah lesson – only to be told that orders from above prohibited him from setting foot there.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rochel Baum OBM a resident of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She was 77 years old.
Israeli police said two 13-year-old girls from Israel’s Arab minority stabbed and lightly wounded a security guard in a town near Tel Aviv on Thursday and were arrested.
Avremy and Shifra (nee Rockford) Chein (Bal Harbor, FL)
A fan of Avraham Fried’s music, who describes himself as no-longer religious, wrote a heartfelt letter to the Chasidic singing star describing how his music still brings meaning to his life, and that he cannot bring himself to play his CDs on Shabbos. Avraham Fried responded by revealing who was behind the now-ubiquitous message on all his albums “please do not play on Shabbos and Yom Tov.”
The head Shliach to Alaska, Rabbi Yosef Greenberg, delivered an invocation to open a session of the United States Senate in Washington, DC, upon the invitation of Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Rabbi Rafael Grossman spent most of career in the rabbinate as the head of Baron Hirsch Synagogue in Memphis, Tennessee, where he led the largest Orthodox congregation in the United States. He is presently Senior Rabbi Emeritus. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in January of 2012.
A group of pro-Palestinian sympathizers fanned out across New York City yesterday and distributed thousands of parodied copies of The New York Times bearing headlines and stories that contradict what they claim to be the newspaper’s pro-Israel bias in its coverage of the Middle East conflict.
There’s been another slashing on a New York City subway, and terrified riders are calling for protection. This, as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton insists the subways are safe.
At around 2:00pm today, Wednesday, a USPS mailman was robbed on Carroll Street between Schenectady and Utica Avenues. The perpetrator waited for the mailman to walk up to a door, then grabbed two Amazon packages from his cart and ran off.
Avremi and Dina (nee Feiglin) White (Melbourne, Australia)
Rabbi Chezki and Chani Lifshitz, co-directors of Chabad in Nepal, just spent some time in a completely different venue—the Knesset. They were invited there as official guests of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely, who wanted to formally recognize the couple for their efforts on behalf of the thousands of young Israelis who travel each year to Nepal to hike and explore.
Eli Oster (Crown Heights) and Sheina (bas Yonah) Avtzon (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Aaron Raskin, Chabad Shliach in Brooklyn Heights, says he is lucky to get away unscathed after a group of teenagers assaulted and tried to rob him.
Hadar Cohen, a 19-year-old Border Policewomen wounded in a combined terror stabbing and shooting attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City this morning, has died of her wounds.
Ruth Krevsky, a survivor of CSA, went public with her story at a JCW awareness event held recently in Montreal.
Last Wednesday night, Israeli Lubavitcher chosid Mendy Rivkin was stabbed by a 17-year-old terrorist in Givat Ze’ev, while walking with his wife. Rivkin, 40, was transported to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek hospital. His attacker was chased down and subdued by locals before police arrived. Speaking to reporters from his hospital bed, Rivkin recounted the terrifying ordeal.
2
