After The Times Herald Record editor Barry Lewis wrote an editorial about how much he missed rugalach after the upstate seasonal kosher bakeries closed, Chabad of Orange County’s Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston decided that hosting a Kosher Rugalach Workshop would be a good idea. So did Lewis.
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The 6th annual Miami Torah Experience took place in North Miami Beach, Florida, on December 23-31, 2014, with over 20 participants from various universities worldwide.
Shmuel Kirsh (Zur Hadassah, Israel) and Shirah Fisher (Givat Shmuel, Israel)
A terrible accident left U.S. Army Sgt. Jordan Adams in a coma and fighting for his life. One year later a revolutionary medical procedure held promising potential and would be covered by medical insurance, only the transportation – air ambulance – would not and was beyond the reach of Sgt. Adams’ family. That was until Vital One got the call.
Following a unity march which brought millions into the streets of Paris, French President François Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Grand Synagogue of Victoire where they were to attend a service honoring those murdered in the terrorist attacks last week.
What is that 9-foot-tall rabbi selling? Raffle tickets! Organizers behind the Bayis Raffle, which is offering its winner 6 months of rent or mortgage payments along with 100 seforim, got a 9-foot-tall ‘mascot’ to help sell raffle tickets over the weekend on Kingston Avenue and in 770.
Yarden and Bayla (nee Lax) Blumstein (West Bloomfield, MI)
Following the terror attacks in France, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Chairman of Merkos Linyonei Chinuch, released a statement reaffirming sentiments echoed by many Parisian Jews that “Jewish life will not shut down.”
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 51, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Mental Illness [Pt. 2], Is There Any Virtue to Madness? Unaffordable Housing in Crown Heights, Alternatives to Yelling [Pt. 2], Shabbos Peace With Young Children.
A fast moving 2-alarm fire in a 3-story home on Eastern Parkway injured 3 residents and four fire fighters, who struggled for nearly an hour to contain and douse the blaze. One of those injured, a woman, was critically injured.
While there’s no wrong time for studying Torah, an argument can be made that now is an especially good time, with a stretch between major Jewish holidays and winter in full swing in much of the world.
A series of terror attacks which claimed 16 lives in Paris, the capitol city of France, last week has brought hundreds of thousands of people out into the streets who marching alongside world leaders in a show of unity and defiance against terror. Live video of the march in the Extended Article.
Shmuli and Racheli (nee Goldstein) Friedman (Surfside, FL)
Motti Harlig (Las Vegas, NV) and Mushkie Rosenblum (Pittsburgh, PA)
A 19-year-old African-American man was shot and killed just steps from his home in Crown Heights Thursday afternoon.
Lassana Bathily, a Muslim employee at Paris Kosher grocery store Hyper Cacher, saved several people by hiding them in a walk-in freezer when a gunman laid siege to his workplace on Friday.
On Friday afternoon, just a few yards away from the Hyper Chacher supermarket in Paris where almost two dozen people were being held hostage by an Islamic terrorist, a Lubavitcher Chosid was standing with a pair of Tefilin, offering worried and tense Jews the opportunity to pray for those trapped inside.
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