Poland’s constitutional court on Wednesday overturned a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals which had affected the Jewish and Muslim communities and eliminated a $620 million a year industry.
Yonathan Souid, the 23-year-old Jewish college student from France who was arrested last month for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge at the end of his trip to New York for a Chabad-sponsored Shabbaton, was sentenced yesterday to 240 hours of community service.
Yudi and Blumi (new Bloy) Ashkenazi (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Police said the stabbing that occurred early Tuesday morning in 770 Eastern Parkway was not believed to be connected to terrorism, reports the Associated Press. An attorney representing suspect Calvin Peters’ family says he was bipolar.
In one of the country’s smallest Jewish communities—in a breathtakingly beautiful area known for its dude ranches and ski slopes—Rabbi Chaim Bruk recruited several men to be part of a worldwide task of learning MosesMaimonides’ landmark compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah.
Police officials and representatives of Merkos met this morning to discuss yesterday’s incident where Levi Rosenblat, a 22 year-old rabbinical student, was stabbed and critically injured. At the meeting police were thanked for their handling of the incident, and concern over copycat incident was raised.
As Yud Tes Kislev, the Rosh Hashana of Chassidus, begins tonight at sundown many Shuls and Yeshivos in Crown Heights and around the world will begin hosting Farbrengens and events in honor of this auspicious day. Kolel Menachem will be hosting Rabbi Eliyahu Landau for a Friday night Farbrengen following Shabbos meals.
A delegation of Shluchim and Lubavitcher Askonim visited the home of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Leiberman, who is sitting Shiva following the passing of his mother.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Slavin, OBM, a devoted Chossid and veteran member of the Crown Heights community. He was 94 years old.
A unique and joyous celebration took place at the Mayanot Shul in Jerusalem when the community united for a recent Hachnasas Sefer Torah. Members took part in a historic moment by participating in the welcoming of a new Sefer Torah to the shul.
A group of Yeshiva University students visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens Sunday evening, accompanied by a few of their acquaintances who are students of Oholei Torah in Crown Heights.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Reuven Sirota, an elder Chosid who ran an underground Matzah bakery in Tashkent and was the Rebbe’s Matzah baker. He was 83 years old.
Levi Rosenblat, the 22-year-old rabbinical student that was stabbed and critically injured early Tuesday morning in 770 Eastern Parkway, has awakened, is conscious and alert and has spoke with his parents late last night.
Shluchim come together at the Kinus every year to celebrate and sympathize, to share in each other’s experiences as brothers in arms. Soldiers in the same Army. Rabbis from Argentina to Alaska can appreciate the common thread that ties them together, their dedication to a life of Shlichus, reaching out to every and any Jew.
Shmuel Slonim (Binghamton, NY) and Nechama Lazaroff (Houston, TX)
L’chaim tonight, Tuesday, at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] at 8:30pm
The leaders of 24 Chabad centers in Moscow, Russia’s capital, gathered this past Motzei Shabbos for an evening of insight and inspiration.
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