Former longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles Hynes is accused of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars seized from criminal suspects to pay for a political consultant, according to a report by the city’s Department of Investigation.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday and Thursday, June 4-5, for Shavuos. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The cows were milked more than a month ago, the special batch of kosher cheese has finished fermenting, the mouth-watering cheesecakes have been ordered from Israel, and the handouts for the Torah study are already copied and collated. Like thousands of Chabad emissaries around the world, Rabbi Chaim Hillel and Devora Leah Azimov of Northern Cyprus are preparing to celebrate Shavuot with their community of several hundred souls.
In honor of the Baal Shem Tov’s Yahrtzeit, which occurs on the first day of Shavuos, we present a fascinating story of the legendary founder of the Chasidic movement, written by renowned author Rabbi Sholom Dovber Avtzon.
The Besht, now located at 563 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.], will be hosting three renowned lecturers who will inspire the congregants with words of Torah through the first night of Shavuos. The lecturers are: Rabbi Yosef Paltiel, Rabbi Chaim Miller and Rabbi Zalman Abraham.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe holding his Sefer Torah during Shachris in 770.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yochanon Halevi ben Menucha Kraindel, a Florida Shliach who has yet to come too following a procedure.
Chaim Rosenstein (Oak Park, MI) and Bassy Goldstein (Monsey, NY/Cleveland, OH)
Shalom and Aharona Lubin (Parsippany, NJ)
Students from Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles presented the Rebbe a special present in honor of his birthday on Yud Aleph Nissan. The students learned a combined 108,337 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and more. This Sunday the students were rewarded for their efforts in a special ceremony.
This charming video, produced by The Jewish Daily Forward’s Martyna Starosta, portrays the daily life of a ‘nice Jewish boy’ from Borough Park who makes his living exterminating unwanted pests from local Jewish homes.
Both Rabbi Chaim Miller and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin recently published extensive biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The two met in the Upper West Side of Manhattan to exchange copies of their respective books – and posed for the obligatory photo.
On Shabbos, unknown perpetrators set fire to a roadside Chabad house near Baqa al-Gharbiyye, an Israeli-Arab village. The attack, which coincided with the torching of a synagogue in Petach Tikvah, is suspected to be Arab retaliation for ‘price-tag’ attacks.
A most lavish affair, held in the grand ballrooms of Oholei Torah, gathered over 500 guests, parents and supporters to celebrate the 58th year of Oholei Torah. Rabbi Sholom Rosenfeld, Director of Oholei Torah, commented that the wide spectrum of honorees and guests that the Oholei Torah dinners have included help ensure the growth and expansion of the mossad.
This morning, shortly after 8:30am, a Borough Park Chesed volunteer picked up two women headed for cancer treatment in Manhattan hospitals. He was quickly pulled over by a TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) police officer.
In keeping with his annual tradition, Oholei Torah teacher Rabbi Levi Borenstein invited his 8th grade class to his home on Balfour Place, where they enjoyed a delicious barbecue and held a Siyum on the Gemara they learned over the course of the year.
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