Millions of Americans partake in the ‘National Night Out Against Crime,’ an event held to prevent crime and build community partnerships between residents and law enforcement. This year’s event fell out on Tisha B’Av, but that did not stop Chabad of Simcha Monica from turning out in full force.
Shmary and Devorah Leah (nee Lerman) Gurary (Crown Heights)
Shmuel and Chaya (nee Hertz) Schapiro (Crown Heights)
Yossi and Miriam (nee Giter) Assayag (Chicago, IL)
Instead of having a party, Joseph Ezon found a better way to celebrate his bar mitzvah. The Flatbush youngster traveled with his family and friends to Israel, where the group helped needy families by preparing food packages with Colel Chabad.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’eschanan. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the definition of a great life?
Yosef Sharfstein likes to joke that there are more Jewish people living on his block in Brooklyn, N.Y., than there are in the entire state of South Dakota—and that’s probably true.
In an effort to bring peace to the Middle East, President Barack Obama has proposed that Israel should return to its 1967 borders in exchange for being annihilated by its enemies. PJTV’s Andrew Klavan has a better idea.
Early this morning, Wednesday, at around 3:30am, two burglars broke into a car parked on Troy Avenue between Crown and Montgomery Streets. The crime was captured by the surveillance cameras of a nearby building.
On Tisha B’av, the bochurim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ heard wrenching testimony of the atrocities of the Holocaust from a survivor, who brought along several artifacts to demonstrate in real-life terms how things were in those dark times.
As the difficult situation continues in the Middle East, and critics worldwide blast Israel for its response to Hamas rocket fire, comes Shmor, an all new music video starring Israeli superstar Benny Elbaz, set against the backdrop of the Midtown Manhattan pro-Israel rally that took place on July 21st, 2014 and was attended by thousands.
Police have obtained the photo of a man who is accused of forcibly groping a 13-year-old girl on the corner of Utica Ave. and Eastern Parkway, and are asking the public’s help in identifying him.
Before I go to sleep I check the news, and the first thing I do upon waking is check to see what happened in Israel while I slept. I see I am not the only one because peoples Facebook/ twitter statuses have changed- as Jews we are worried. I am hyperaware of everything. As I am shopping I notice every ‘off’ glance and I hear a toy ambulance from the toy store…The siren. I’m sweating… This is no comparison…
Hussam Kawasme, the Hamas operative accused of orchestrated the June kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli teenagers, HYD, was arrested, the Israeli government announced.
After completing the ‘Seuda Hamafsekes,’ Campers and staff at Gan Israel in Parksville, NY gathered Monday night to read Megilas Eicha and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh.
The NYPD is searching for a suspect who shot a 24-year-old man on Montgomery St. in Crown Heights this past Motzei Shabbos.
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