Swagbucks, a Los Angeles-based web-rewards company founded by Lubavitcher Yosef Gorowitz, announced that it has raised $60 million in venture capital from investment firms amid exponential growth over the past year. The company also announced that it has hired a new and experienced CEO.
Yisroel Levertov (Phoenix, AZ) and Rosie Markowitz (Crown Heights)
A severe collision occurred yesterday evening in Crown Heights between a gray Infiniti sedan and a Fresh Direct delivery truck, the force of which caused the truck to flip over to its side.
Yossi and Chaya Henya (nee Rudski) Blachman (Crown Heights)
On Lag Ba’omer, a new Sefer Torah was completed in Brisk (known today as Brest), Belarus, for the first time in 75 years. The new scroll was welcomed with much celebration to the city’s main synagogue, where the famed Reb Chaim Brisker (soleveichik) once studied and prayed.
12 is a well-known number in Judaism. There are the 12 tribes, 12 stones of the Choshen, 12 loaves of Lechem Hapanim. But most of all, it is the age at which a young girl experiences her transition into a woman. How appropriate then, when a Shul celebrates 12 years of success, for the Ezras Noshim to gather for the celebration – especially when it’s the Ezras Noshim of the only Shul in the world that is for the Kids – by the Kids!
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yosef Yehuda ben Kreindel, a Shliach in Southern California who is suffering from an advanced bout of ‘yene machla,’ and needs our prayers for his speedy and complete recovery.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Naso. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How does one stay focused on what is really important?
Project Ignite is a project of Merkos suite 302 that promises to empower community members to become Shluchim in their own right.
A Chabad Mitzvah Tank joined the annual Memorial Day Parade in Long Beach, NY. The addition to the parade, which takes place in front of the Long Island town’s city hall, was arranged by Chabad of the Beaches (AKA BACH Jewish Center), under the leadership of Rabbi Eli and Beila Goodman.
After nearly 10 months of dedicating themselves to children with special needs and the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, close to 250 young women gathered at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights for an evening of recognition and appreciation.
40 years ago, Rabbi Elimelech and Chaya Sarah Silberberg packed up their lives and the first two of their 10 children to, as the rabbi recently put it, “bring light to West Bloomfield, Michigan.” They were a couple on a mission, Shluchim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. And what began in 1974 as a handful of families gathering to pray in rented space has grown into the Sara and Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center (BCTC) of West Bloomfield.
Two Jewish brothers wearing yarmulkas were attacked near a synagogue in the Paris area on Motzei Shabbos. The assault came hours after a deadly shooting spree that left four dead at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
Levi Treitel (Montreal, Canada) and Leba Muchnik (Crown Heights)
A seven-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after she narrowly avoided being run over by a car while riding across the street on her scooter. The frightening incident occurred at about 4:30pm yesterday, Sunday, on the corner of Albany Ave. and Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights.
The graduating students of Oholei Torah’s Shiur Daled Zal, who will be going on Shlichus next year to various Yeshivos and Chabad institutions around the world, posed for a group portrait with their teachers and Mashpi’im outside 770 yesterday.
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