After shuttering its website in back in February, followed by a successful crowd-funding campaign of over $150,000 in July, Jewish Community Watch has made good on its promise and launched a new and improved website dedicated to combating child abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community. Included in the new site is the organization’s controversial ‘Wall of Shame,’ bearing the names of 93 alleged child abusers, along with over 150 pages of educational material.
A teenager was arrested and charged with beating a cancer-stricken Chasidic Jewish man while hurling anti-Semitic insults at him in a Brooklyn subway station.
As day two of the International Kinus Hashluchim begins, downstairs 770 and the Rebbe’s room once again filled with Shluchim studying Chassidus b’chavrusa, Davening Shachris and Bentching Gomel.
Shlomo Elharar (Montreal, Canada) and Chayie Groner (Melbourne, Australia)
Yitzhok and Adina Mushinsky (Crown Heights)
Lipa Lieberman, a Lubavitcher real estate broker, has just recently closed a deal on behalf of a buyer for a portfolio of Brooklyn and Queens properties worth $236 Million.
Avi (Avromi) Zuber (Boston/Israel) and Raizy (bas Yaakov) Horowitz (Crown Heights)
Shaya Bernstein (Toronto, Canada) and Brochy Marasow (Montreal, Canada)
On Monday, the 2nd of Kislev, 5775 (November 24th), the completion of a Sefer Torah will take place in memory of Reb Noach Bogatin, OBM.
In light of the recent terror attacks in Israel and the Kinus Hashluchim, which is taking place in Crown Heights, the NYPD has stepped up security around the convention and neighborhood Shuls.
Nathan Hoffman (Phoenix, AZ) and Yehudis Silverman (Pittsburgh, PA)
A sweeping trend taking place in Jewish communities around the world has come to Crown Heights, and in a grand style. Hundreds of local women took part in the ‘Grand Challah Bake’ in the large ballroom of Oholei Torah on Wedensday night.
Kinus Hashluchim 5775 opened Wednesday afternoon with registration, sessions, meals and a visit to the Rebbes Room. Official Kinus photographer Itzik Roytman presents his first gallery.
A woman pushing a stroller with her infant child was struck by an SUV on Kingston Avenue. Despite being knocked to the ground, the mother and child miraculously did not suffer any serious injuries, boruch hashem.
Yitzchok Shmuel Shubov (Toronto, Canada) and Shayna Rosenberg (Toronto, Canada)
Schneur Zalmen and Faige Raskin (Canberra, Australia)
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