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.
Rabbi Yisroel Osdoba‘s fourth grade Oholei Torah students created delicious edible art-and-crafts – Har Sinai and Luchos made from candy – for the upcoming Yomtov of Shavuos.
Ava Wildstein of Westchester, New York was celebrating her Bat Mitzvah and she wanted to use this special occasion to help other children, specifically girls like her of Bat Mitzvah age.
Yesterday, Sunday, June 1st, tens of thousands of Jews from all around the tri-state area gathered in upper Manhattan to express Jewish pride and support for Israel at the annual Israel Day Parade. As wherever large numbers of Jews are present, Chabad Chassidim where there to help any Jew who wished put on Tefilin.
At yesterday’s Israel Day Parade on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, dozens of young Chabad volunteers gave thousands of revelers the opportunity to put on Tefilin, receive Shabbos candles and sign up for JNet, among other forms of outreach.
Across Russia, high school students are scheduled to take their government-mandated final exams on the 4th of June. However, while inconspicuous to the average Russian student, this scheduling arrangement created a problem for the thousands of Jewish children enrolled in Or Avner day schools around the country, as this date coincides with the holiday of Shavuos.
Members of the Berkeley High School Chabad Club enjoy pizza while discussing Chabad philosophy with young Shliach Mendel Kehati.
Yakov (ben Shmuel) Kaplan (Baltimore, MD) and Leah (bas Zalmen) Shanowitz (Crown Heights)
Four people, three men and one woman, were rushed to Kings County Hospital after a shooting in a Crown Heights park on Motzei Shabbos.
Oren Hizkiya (NY/Boca Raton, FL) and Mushky Tennenhaus (Hallandale Beach, FL)
The Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall on Crown and Albany in Crown Heights was swarming with hundreds of boys this past Thursday evening, 29 Sivan, ready to receive their long-awaited “sefarim vouchers” that they earned this year by attending Yeshivas Erev Yehuda Kalman.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 19, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled ‘I Want To Go on Shlichus But Have Nowhere to Go!‘
Colleagues and friends of Officer Jeff Herman gathered in front of the 71st Precinct Sunday morning to mark the 25th anniversary of his death in the line of duty. Officer Herman was gunned down after responding to a 911 call for a domestic disturbance.
