CKids’ FreedoMan Announces Return of Global Mission
This Pesach, popular Lego superhero FreedoMan will lead thousands of young Chabad House-goers to victory over Pharaoh in the brand-new CKids Tzivos Hashem Freedom Challenge.
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Netanyahu Invites Orthodox Parties for Coalition Talks
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement early Wednesday morning inviting potential coalition partners to immediately enter talks for the swift formation of what is expected to be a religious-nationalist government in Jerusalem.
Video: Karate Chop
Camp Emunah is not hosting a Chinese Auction. Click here to purchase a ticket, and leave the splitting to them.
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Nachman Dov and Rochel (nee Muss) Wichnin (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Mordechai (ben R’ Yosef Yitzchok) Simpson (Crown Heights) and Tirtza (bas R’ Chaim Meyer) Lieberman (Crown Heights)
Video: Sara Chana on Best Health Food Store Buys
Sara Chana Silverstein, a Crown Heights mother of seven who specializes in areas of alternative medicine and herbs, appeared on the CT Style show to share her tips on finding the best health food store buys for under $15.00.
Shocking: Likud Wins Big
Results of yesteday’s Israeli elections took all political pundits by surprise. From being the underdog and all the polls predicting he will lose, Benjamin Netanyahu managed to turn the tide with a stunning victory. Despite what he called ‘outside money’ trying to defeat him, he will remain prime minister.
From Days Gone By: Unbridled Joy
Rabbis Yisroel Jacobson and Berel Rivkin dance at a wedding in 1964. Can you identify anyone else in the photo, and where it was taken?
NYPD to Deploy Gun-Shot Detectors
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William J. Bratton yesterday announced the deployment of new gunshot detection technology that will decrease officer response times to gunshot incidents and enhance community and public safety. NYPD will pilot the ‘ShotSpotter’ system in five zones of approximately three square miles each located within various precincts in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The first pilot area to go operational on Monday, March 16, 2015 will be in the Bronx.
JEM Raises $1 Million in Less Than 24 Hours
The “JEM Leap Campaign” successfully reached its goal of raising $1 million in a 24-hour quadruple matching grant campaign that began at noon on Monday, March 16.
Photos: Election Day in Kfar Chabad
Like the rest of their Israeli brethren, the residents of Kfar Chabad went to the polling booths today to cast ballots for their favored political party for the Knesset. The winning party will be given the opportunity to form a governing coalition.
Keeping Pre-Bar-Bat Mitzvah Coming Back for More
Once they approach Bat and Bar Mitzvah milestone, tweens typically drop out of Hebrew School. This fact is supported by the findings of a 2008 study commissioned by the Avi Chai Foundation: “enrollment drops precipitously… more students are enrolled in the lower grades than the higher ones.”
Fellow Students Remember Uri as Shiva Concludes
The sudden passing of Uri Gurary, OBM, a bochur from Antwerp, Belgium, who was studying this year in Oholei Torah Zal, brought about a void among his fellow students. The bochurim in the Beis Medrash therefore undertook many hachlotos and leaning sessions as a comfort and L’ilui Nishmas their dear friend and chaver.
Chabad Heads to the Polls with Tefilin Campaign
Today, as the nation of Israel heads to the polls to elect a new Prime Minister and Knesset, Chabad Chassidim have panned out across the country on a campaign of their own – to help Jews put on Tefilin and pray for the security of Eretz Yisroel.
Jewish Mother and Her Children Rescued from Arabs
A Purim miracle. That’s how a Yad L’Achim rescue team described last week’s dramatic evacuation of Ahuva (name changed to protect identity), a Jewish woman, and her three children from a hostile Arab village near Beit Lechem.
Man Stabbed in Front of Melbourne Chabad School
Police are investigating after a woman stabbed a man in front of Yeshiva College in Melbourne, Australia, in what they believe to be a domestic assault. Dozens of schoolchildren who were waiting to be picked up are believed to have witnessed the incident.
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Follie and Elky (nee Levin) Dubov (Manchester, UK)
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