Baby Boy!
Saadia and Nechama (nee Kupfer) Pewzner (Bronx, NY)
Rabbi Schochet Issues Clarification on Telushkin Ban
Rabbi Gershon Elisha Schochet, Av Beis Din of Toronto, released today a second letter in response to a general misunderstanding of his first letter, in which he espoused a Halachic prohibition on promoting the book of Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
Japanese Photographer Documents Chasidic Life in Crown Heights
The path to New York almost always comes with one story or another. In the case of Chie Nishio, it turns out to be a photographic one.
New Engagement!
Ari Raskin (Melbourne, Australia) and Rivky Krasnianski (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
Murdered 3-Month-Old Laid to Rest
On Wednesday night, Hundreds attended the funeral of Chaya Zisel Braun, the three-month-old baby who was killed earlier in the day when a terrorist rammed his vehicle into her family as they disembarked from the Jerusalem Light Rail.
New Yeshiva Building Dedicated in Moscow
Moscow’s largest Yeshiva, which stands adjacent to the Marina Roscha Synagogue, celebrated the inauguration of their new spacious state-of-the-art building on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.
Banned Cult Returns Under New Name
After it was banned by leading Rabbonim last year amid a community uproar, the ‘Call of the Shofar’ – labeled a cult by experts in the field – seems to be attempting a comeback in the Chabad community under a new name: From Galut to Geula.
Video: Can One Stray Too Far to Ever Return?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Noach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Can one stray so far that he/she cannot return?
Chabad Houses Go Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness
Chabad Houses are going pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and many Chabad centers from the Bronx, New York to Austin, Texas, will be joining the campaign, hosting Pink Shabbats at college campuses across the United States.
Connecticut Governor Meets with Chabad Activists
This past Tuesday, Oct 22, 2014, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy met with community activists Moti Sandman and Zev Sandman at the home of the former in New Haven, CT. They discussed a range of topics, focusing on the needs of the Greater Connecticut Jewish Community.
Mezuzah Torn Down in Hate Crime, 30 More Go Up
Shortly before Yom Kippur, Bryan Turkel, a Jewish student in his senior year at Claremont McKenna College—one of a consortium of five undergraduate liberal-arts schools and two graduate schools in Southern California called the Claremont Colleges—found the mezuzah on his doorframe torn down. The previous week, Turkel’s dorm room had been broken into, and an Israeli flag he had displayed prominently had been stolen.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, October 23, for a Hindu holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
3-Month-Old Killed, 7 Injured in Jerusalem Terror Attack
A three-month-old infant was killed this afternoon, and seven others injured, when a car driven by an Arab man crashed into a light rail station in Jerusalem, in what is believed to be a terror attack.
Video: Moshe Attends Kosher Day
Chabad comedian Moshe Kravitsky, star of The Moshe Show, walked the streets of Crown Heights on Kosher Day, September 14th, 2014, to find out what is “Kosher” all about… and other things.
Photos: ‘Second Hakofos’ in Meron
Chabad of Meron, under the leadership of Rabbi Y.Y. Halperin, organized ‘second Hakofos’ at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Motzei Yomtov, with hundreds of Jews of all stripes in attendance.
Ultra-Orthodox Passengers Accused of Delaying Flight
Ultra-Orthodox men and women were accused of causing over an hour delay on a Delta flight Monday night at JFK airport, when they de-boarded the plane rather than sit next to members of the opposite gender.
Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Bracha Miriam bas Chana for a complete and speedy refuah shlaima.
