The Shliach to Hartford, Connecticut, Rabbi Yosef Gopin, arrived in Moscow for a special visit, during which he led several inspiring and uplifting Farbrengens for the local Jewish community in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
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At Jerusalem’s Kraft Stadium yesterday, Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, director of the ‘RAP’ Yeshiva, put on Tefilin with Ron Mix, a Jewish pro-football player and NFL hall-of-famer. Though open and proud of his Jewish identity, it was Mix’s first time ever having done the Mitzvah.
People who buy health insurance through state exchanges established by the federal government will remain eligible for subsidies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Rabbi Leibel Bistritzky was the proprietor of a kosher food store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and an early pioneer of the medical emergency volunteer response organization Hatzalah. He passed away in 2013 at age 86. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project once in 2005 and again in 2006.
This photo depicts the scene of a summer’s day on Kingston Avenue in the mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Police have announced the arrest of Janice Vargas-Cruz, a 40-year-old woman who is suspected of being the driver of the sedan that ran over and ultimately killed 93-year-old Milwood Hughes yesterday.
New York City is set to hire nearly 1,300 new police officers as part of its $78.5 billion budget agreement, honoring a proposal put forth by the City Council over Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s initial objections.
This past Sunday evening, groups of businessmen gathered to thank the Bochurim of Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne who regularly visit them on Mivtzoim. The evening was scheduled for the day after Gimmel Tammuz in order to honor and pay tribute to the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State legislative leaders announced a framework agreement that will allocate an unprecedented $250 million of new funding to the state’s non-public schools for mandated services—the largest amount ever allocated to this program.
Yoni Lewkowicz (Tucson, AZ) and Devorah Leah Moshiach (Crown Heights)
Shaul Yachad (South Africa) and Chanie Efune (Brighton, UK)
Mendel Zirkind (Crown Heights) and Zisi Wolf (Los Angeles, CA)
Yisroel and Chavie Rosenblum (Livingston, NJ)
Hundreds of local community members and guests from around the world gathered at a wedding hall in Bellevue, Washington, to celebrate the wedding of Sarale Farkash, whose parents serve as Chabad Shluchim in the city, and Chaim Shaul Rivkin of Kfar Chabad, Israel.
A group of Bochurim who arrived in New York for Gimmel Tammuz struck up a conversation with the taxi driver who picked them up from the airport, who revealed to them that he is Jewish. When they arrived in Crown Heights, the Bochurim wasted no time in helping the man put on Tefilin and say Shema, right there on the street.
It was a bittersweet event, filled with the conflicting emotions that come with extreme sadness mingled with joy. You could sense the powerful feelings, blending in the air along with the fuzzy white confetti drifting down from the cottonwood trees above.
Bochurim in the Smicha Program at Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim “Chovevei Torah” in Crown Heights pose for a group photo after they successfully completed their studies in the laws of Issur V’heter (Kashrus).
