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 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.
Moishe (ben Moty) Scheinfeld (Crown Heights) to Frayda Aber (Sydney, Australia)
Tzvi Rappaport (Toronto, Canada) and Shterna Brocha Elberg (Crown Heights)
Walk into what was once a Moscow bus station and you’ve stepped into what’s not merely an institution of “living history” but one of “interactive history” – a place where one can go back in time not by the simple act of looking at the past but by actually taking part in those times in the present moment.
Candidates vying for the 43rd Assembly District seat participated in a debate that was televised on NY1. Candidates Diana Richardson, Geoffrey Davis and Menachem Raitport all argued the merits of their ideas and plans should they be elected.
The leadership of the sixth annual N’shei Chabad Convention poses for a group portrait at the head table. Can you identify those in the photo, where and when it was taken?
In the storefront which the Kertchme Pizza Shop once occupied, Menachem Raitport, candidate for New York State Assembly, opened his new campaign headquarters Sunday evening with political activists and supports turning out.
In honor of Beis Iyar, the day of the Rebbe Maharash’s birthday, we present a chapter detailing an ‘unknown chapter’ in the his life where he fought for Jewish education and protecting young Jewish men from being drafted into the army.
Yisroel and Rishi (nee Kaminetzky) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Heightened security precautions are in place at Jewish institutions in Nashville after a bullet was fired Monday morning at a synagogue in the Tennessee capital.
Sruly and Mushky (nee Frankel) Karasik (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Moshe Dickstein, a Chabad Chassid from Beersheva, was promoted to Major in the IDF this week.
Several dozen graduates of Kfar Chabad’s Beit Sefer L’Mlachah (Vocational School) gathered to mark the 59th anniversary of the horrific terror attack perpetrated against it, in which five students and their teacher were murdered in their classroom.
A Brooklyn-based charity specializes in live kidney donations. And the vast majority of the transplants are utra-Orthodox donors giving to a Jewish stranger.
Avrohom Butman (Westchester, NY) and Sara (bas Yossi – President St) Simpson (Crown Heights)
It has become a rite of passage for IDF soldiers: relieved of their army service, thousands trek the Himalayan mountain ranges and find relief from the stresses of their military service.
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