Just two hours into a mutually agreed ‘humanitarian cease fire’ terrorists attacked IDF soldiers – using a tunnel which opened behind IDF lines – in the Rafah Area in the Gaza Strip. Two soldiers were reportedly killed in the attack and another, 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, is reportedly missing and presumed abducted.
Dovid Slavin (Crown Heights) and Yael (Amy) Zebberman (Tarzana, CA)
Police are searching for two groups of men who held up victims at gunpoint in Crown Heights this month, stealing jewelry and money. Both incidents occurred in broad daylight.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains how one small quarrel – the misunderstanding between Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza – could bring about the destruction of the Holy Temple and Jerusalem, as explained in the Talmud. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Yossi and Mushka (nee Zalmanov) Greenberg (Oxford, OH)
I can get you to look my way. I can cause you to feel uncomfortable. I can compel you to feel you want to stare but you know it is rude to stare. It makes you feel awkward. I dress this way because I am a woman and women should not be oppressed – we are free to express ourselves through our way of dressing and you are committing a faux pas if you object. I can impress you with my clothes. Once you are impressed by me, I have power over you. I am a power dresser. I make my own choices. No one tells me how to dress.
Talented presenter and Sofer (and CGI-NY alumni) Rabbi Yosef Serebryanski bedazzled the campers of Gan Yisroel as they witnessed an informative presentation on the process of Tefilin making and writing, to help visualize what they’re studying in learning classes.
On the first day of Camp Gan Israel of Sweden – AKA Tze’irei Hashluchim-Europe – young Shliach Arye Segal of Baku, Azerbaijan celebrated his 11th birthday with fellow young Shluchim from around the world.
A group of Kfar Chabad residents, several of them members of a local ‘Shomrim’ volunteer group, packed up food, drinks, Tefilin, Shabbos Candles and brochures and headed out to the Gaza border to raise the spirits of the IDF soldiers stationed there with refreshments and good deeds.
CrownHeights.info reported earlier this week that The Lancet, a distinguished medical journal, after having published an anti-Israel diatribe, refused to publish a subsequent rebuttal written by three Israeli doctors.
The campers and Staff of Camp Emunah’s ‘Sunshine Bunk,’ a program for campers with special needs, received a surprise visitor yesterday.
A billboard several hundred feet wide was erected by Chabad in Tel Aviv, urging the Israeli populace to put on Tefillin (or have them checked) for the sake of the safety of the soldiers fighting Hamas in Gaza.
The campers at CGI-Parksville were treated to an amazing carnival yesterday, Tuesday, featuring game booths created by each of the camp’s bunks.
The NYC Department of Transportation has issued a reprieve to the many drivers who received multiple tickets for driving in the bus only lanes along the B44 Special Bus Route on Nostrand, Rogers and Bedford Avenues, some of which were for violations that occurred as much as four months ago.
Crown Heights is one of the fastest — if not the fastest — gentrifying neighborhoods in New York City, and the building of condos and rentals there can be a very profitable endeavor. However, due to various zoning ordinances that predate the surging demand for housing, developers are frustrated by empty warehouses in areas zoned for commercial use that cannot be converted to residential units, as well as many other building restrictions.
When Tatyana fled the beleaguered eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk late last week, she felt relieved just to have made it out alive.
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