Over 150 Jewish community members from many different cultures and backgrounds attended a Shabbaton organized by Our Big Kitchen, under the leadership of Rabbi Dovid Slavin, on Sydney’s Tamarama Beach.
With the ongoing goal of improving the security and safety of the 1,850 students of Oholei Torah and their teachers, a meeting was arranged between the City Hall Community Affairs Department and the administration of Oholei Torah, the Flagship school of Chabad Lubavitch.
The rapidly developing Jewish youth moment ‘EnerJew,’ now active in 16 locations throughout the Former Soviet Union, continues in its mission to create a promising and committed future generation of proud Jewish leaders. Lately a series of seminars and Shabbatonim took place in some of FSU’s major cities.
A lavish buffet dinner was held Sunday night in London, in honor and support of the Stamford Hill division of Shomrim. Attending the event were the local chiefs of Police, accompanied by a few dozen officers.
Pictures from the wedding of Menachem Mendel Begun (S. Paulo, Brazil) and Mussie Brook (Crown Heights), which took place Monday night in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
On a recent episode of Top Gear, a wildly popular British automotive show, host Jeremy Clarkson bemoaned the relatively slow response times of National Health Service (NHS) ambulances to life-threatening emergencies – which average around 8 minutes. Hatzalah volunteers in New York, on the other hand, boast an average response time of just 4 minutes.
200 members of Cleveland’s orthodox Jewish community gathered on Sunday night to hear from abuse survivors, mental health professionals, and legal experts, in a “Night of Awareness and Education” about CSA. The event was organized by Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an organization committed to raising awareness of and preventing CSA in the orthodox Jewish community. The standing-room only crowd included survivors, parents of small children, and community leaders.
After its suspension for about two weeks following a heavy snowstorm, Alternate Side Parking Rules will resume today, Tuesday, February 10, throughout New York City.
After spending more than a week on the run, the Kutsy family has been located, and after negotiating with authorities they have turned themselves and their children in. The kids were taken to a hospital for evaluation and are reported to be in good health B”H.
A garbage truck from Yankels Rubbish went up in flames late Monday night while collecting commercial trash on Empire Boulevard. Police shut down the thoroughfare while the FDNY doused the blaze.
Aryeh (ben Shmuel) Goodman (Chicago, IL) and Mindy (bas Shlomo) Greenberg (Morristown, NJ)
Ranked top in the world, Israel’s Defense Forces has to its credit some of the most sophisticated technology, military minds and training programs in the world. But in 2006, as the second Lebanon war with Hezbollah came to a bitter end, an internal investigation revealed a lackluster performance by the IDF.
From the archives of Zevi Iseroff, we present a collection of vintage photographs of Camp Gan Yisroel in upstate New York, summers of 1964 and 1966. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
The world’s largest Megilah, written by Lubavitcher Sofer Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kenig of Rechovot, Israel, has recently been completed and will be put up for sale.
Over 1,000 Men turned out for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction event, which benefits the vital work they do in helping marry off Chassanim and Kallahs in Crown Heights. The guests were treated to a lavish buffet and an amazing concert with ‘the king of Jewish music’ – Mordechai Ben David.
Packed wall to wall, women and girls turned out to hear the enthralling story of Brigitte Gabriel, who spoke at Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction event, which benefits the vital work they do in helping marry off Chassanim and Kallahs.
