Mr. Josef (Joe) Cayre is a businessman, philanthropist and co-founder, along with his brothers, of GoodTimes Home Video. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Brooklyn in January of 2007.
The N.O.D. and 4th Grade Divisions of Camp Gan Yisroel-Parksville were treated to bivouac in ‘the Rebbe’s Forest,’ and an amazing time was had by all.
Ripped from their homes by the Nazis 70 years ago, 8,000 Jews were hauled to Stazione Centrale – Milan, Italy’s central train station – where cattle cars on an underground railroad waited to transport them to their death in Auschwitz.
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with last month’s stabbing death of a 17-year-old on Utica and Eastern Parkway during an especially violent few hours in Crown Heights that saw another young man killed just a block away.
The South holds fast to its roots and traditions, an ideal practically synonymous with the Jewish people. So it’s not too surprising, then, that a population dwindling in the 1990s has re-emerged in the 2000s—so much so that the Chabad-Lubavitch couple on the ground there had to find more room to accommodate the community’s budding needs.
On Tuesday, July 7th, Sharon Sabbagh, a Crown Heights mother of five who suffered from kidney failure and was close to going on dialysis, was given a second chance at life thanks to a kind stranger – a young Munkacher Chosid from Boro Park with a child of his own.
On Tuesday, the Talmidim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ, visited the Clementon Water and Amusement Park. They were first given two hours to splash around the water half of the park, enjoying the various water slides and wave pools.
As part of its ongoing campaign to promote and facilitate increased awareness, access and consistent recital of the “Shema” among Jews the world over, Chabad of the Conejo has launched a new “Shema Yisroel App” for the iphone and Android operating systems, which is now available to users as a free download by searching under “Shema Yisroel.”
Avremel and Brachie (nee Wayden) Zirkind (Montreal, Canada)
Public health officials in New York State are reminding residents of the dangers posed by mosquitoes after West Nile Virus was found in two counties.
Shmuli and Chanie (nee Lasker) Turk (Crown Heights)
A group of Beis Rivkah students gather on the staircase for a photo in the mid 1980s. Can you identify those in the photo, and what year it was taken?
New York lawmakers have passed a bill that would require new smoke detectors contain 10-year non-removable batteries.
Chabad of Johannesburg, South Africa, brought the ‘Change Our World For Good’ campaign to Australia, at an event last week in Melbourne. The campaign encourages people to place their change in charity boxes in the shape of a yellow ark and donate it to a good cause of their choice.
Police on Monday were looking for a man who targeted the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn with a paintball gun, in what is suspected to be a hate crime.
Jerry Weintraub, the iconic entertainment promoter and philanthropist who for more than thirty years volunteered his time and professional expertise as producer of Chabad of California’s annual telethon, passed away July 6 in Santa Barbara. He was 77.
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