Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani met Tuesday with ten Israeli soldiers wounded in last summer’s Operation Protective Edge. The meeting took place at a midtown Manhattan kosher restaurant on their last day of a ten-day trip to New York City, arranged by the Chabad Organization Belev Echad.
A Palestinian terrorist rammed his vehicle into three 16-year-old Israeli boys this morning. The attack occurred near the old Alon Shvut junction, just southwest of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
A groundbreaking was celebrated Wednesday for the new Merrin Chabad Center opening near Stony Brook, New York.
Shloime Nelken (Montreal/Toronto) and Chaya Posner (Birmingham, AL)
Zalman Mergui (Paris, France) and Sarah Goldberg (Yerres, France)
Just over a year ago Chabad of Puerto Rico laid the cornerstone for an ambitious new project, a new Jewish Center which will encompass many new ‘firsts’ for the Island, including a Mikvah. A number of experts have come to inspect the construction.
Sholom Ber and Batsheva (nee WIlhelm) Piekarski (Crown Heights)
Berel and Mushka (nee Sasonkin) Kesselman (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Ephraim Rosenblum is the assistant principal of the boys’ school at the Lubavitch Center Campus in Pittsburgh. He was interviewed in JEM’s My Encounter studio in New York in February of 2012.
Yaakov Shusterman (Beverly Hills, CA) and Moussia Abend (Los Angeles, CA)
It’s just after ten in the morning on Sunday. Three (and in some cases, four) generations of Jewish women filter into the lobby of Bais Chaya Mushka, located in Los Angeles’s own 770 building. Women and young girls alike are chatting animatedly, and all feel like important celebrities as their photos are taken in front of a custom-designed Step and Repeat backdrop.
A fire broke out in the basement of a building right across from the park on Lefferts and Albany. Smoke poured out from the storefronts and basement entrances.
Lubavitchers and African-Americans join together in Crown Heights to campaign for the election of John Lindsey, who served as mayor of New York City from 1966 through 1973. Can you identify anyone in the photo and what year it was taken?
Eli Block (Plano, TX) and Sara Abelsky (Crown Heights)
In an emotional and inspiring ceremony, the Jewish community of Zhitomir, Ukraine, celebrated the Bris Milah of four Jewish orphans, who are living and studying at the Or Avner Chabad educational campus in the outskirts of the city.
A shadowy extremist group in Williamsburg calling themselves ‘The Committee to Protect Our City from the Klipah of Chabad’ has posted Pashkvils around the neighborhood, warning and threatening local residents not to sell any property to the ‘Lubavitcher Apikorsim.’
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