Records show that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promise to dramatically cut the number of unnecessary tickets given out to New Yorkers is falling a bit short, and that the total number of summonses issued over the first five months of 2014 is up from 2013.
During a recent conference for European rabbis, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar greeted a 102-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor, who informed him that he had not put on Tefilin since his Bar Mitzvah in 1926! The chief rabbi immediately helped the man put on Tefilin and say a prayer, which the man did with tears in his eyes.
Two Israelis were wounded following a barrage of rocket and mortar fire, one of whom succumbed to his wounds. The victim, Dror Chanin, 37, was at the Erez Crossing delivering food and cheer to soldiers when a barrage of rockets and mortars rained down and critically wounding him.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Lake Worth, Florida were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds.
Last night, on the eve of the fast of 17 Tammuz and the three week period of mourning during which music is prohibited, singing star Benny Friedman performed a lively concert for the students of the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Yoav and Lital (nee Zeluff) Ben Yoav (London, UK)
With Hamas rockets still being hurled at Israel for the seventh straight day, Israelis found something to cheer about as Yarin Levy, a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured yesterday in a rocket attack in Ashkelon regained consciousness this morning.
A Jewish woman doctor from New York is claiming “hate crime” after an eavesdropping Palestinian woman had her booted from her flight home from Palm Beach.
The campers of Mechane Mamosh (AKA Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp) went Friday to do Mivtza Tefilin with fellow Jews for the sake of the security of Eretz Yisroel.
Paris, the city of light: the city of love. The city of quaint, the city of chic. The city of Kristallnacht. Only no German this time: Arabic, and Arabic-infused French. And technically it’s not nacht, it’s in broad daylight. And no black-and-white reel-to-reel; it’s as full-colored as the thingamajig you’re reading this on.
This morning in Crown Heights’ Frankel Shul, the newborn son of Yankee and Binah Teitelbaum was welcomed into the covenant of Avraham Avinu. Emotions ran high as the baby’s new name was announced: Eyal Gilad Naftali.
On Thursday night, Rabbi Yosef Samuels, Shliach of the Rebbe to Milwaukee, farbrenged with Anash and Tmimim in Manchester, UK in honor of Yud Beis Tammuz, the day the Frierdiker Rebbe was liberated from Soviet prison.
Chabad of RARA (Rural and Regional Australia) volunteer rabbis pose with Director Rabbi Saul Spigler before a big week of travels, during which they will reach out to isolated Jews scattered throughout the smallest continent.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz and the three weeks for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
After learning and hearing stories about the Rebbe from the beginning of camp, campers at CGI-Simcha Monica asked their staff to help them write their own letters to the Rebbe on the Yom HaGeula of the Frierdiker Rebbe, Yud Beis Tammuz.
Meir Avner Kirschenbaum (Crown Heights) and Mushka Gniwisch (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim tonight, Monday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Parkway [corner Kingston Ave.]
A 29-year-old Lubavitcher Bochur suffered a broken nose after he was punched in the face by Arab rioters in Paris, France this morning.
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