In Rostov-on-Don, as many as 300—both Jews and non-Jews—were present when a plaque at the Zmievskaya Balka memorial site was finally replaced. In a compromise between the Jewish community and local government, the plaque now identifies Zmievskaya Balka as the site of the largest mass killing of Jews by Nazis in Russian territory.
Mendy and Bruriah (nee Freeman) Efune (Toronto, Canada)
A candid moment was captured on video with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, when he began to wonder aloud why everyone is constantly taking pictures. “You’re all slaves to your gadgets,” the prime minister quipped.
As one of his first orders of business following the recent elections, Quebec’s new Education Minister, Yves Bolduc, said he will cease subsidizing Chasidic schools that do not teach the state-mandated curriculum, and plans on shutting them down.
Exactly 58 years ago today, the first of Iyar, 1956, three terrorists appeared in the doorway of a vocational School for Moroccan immigrant children in Kfar Chabad, Israel and sprayed the classroom with bullets.
Sources have confirmed to Yeshiva World News that one person has in fact been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Mencahem Stark, HYD. Kendel Felix, 26-years-old, of 921 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was charged with murder in the 2nd degree.
Zviki Lipshitz (Antwerp, Belgium) and Mushky Hazan (Rome, Italy)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Over 700 people gathered Wednesday night at Yeshiva University’s Lamport Audtorium for an event titled ‘Living the Legacy of the Rebbe and the Rav,’ which explored the relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rav Y. B. Soleveichik.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Emor. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: When is one’s spiritual service complete?
New York City families who have precious little space in their apartments are finding creative ways to find room for their babies and kids, including using bathrooms and closets, according to a report by DNAinfo.
Three men and one woman were arrested early Wednesday morning after a shooting that took place in the heart of the Lubavitch community of Montreal.
Following the popularity of their first promotional video, the organizers of this year’s Lag Ba’omer ‘Great Parade’ have released a second video to promote the upcoming event, which can be viewed in the extended article.
Once again, reckless yellow journalism has aimed its poisonous fangs at our community, this time targeting the hallowed practice of bris milah.
Ok Kosher Certification, based in Crown Heights, has been selected for the 2014 Best of Brooklyn Award in the Kosher Food Products category by the Brooklyn Award Program.
After 20 years of study, alongside his busy schedule raising a family, running a Yeshiva and the charity organization Our Big Kitchen, Sydney Shliach Rabbi Dovid Slavin has been conferred with a PhD at the University of Sydney.
Sources have confirmed with CrownHeights.info that several suspects have just been taken in for questioning in connection with the brutal murder of Williamsburg landlord Menachem Stark. No formal arrests or charges have yet been made.
Young Dovid Friedman, son of Chasidic singing sensation Benny Friedman, was welcomed into the covenant of Avraham Avinu this morning at a ceremony in the simcha hall of Lubavitcher Yeshiva. To his left is his grandfather, renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Manis Friedman, and to his right is his great uncle, Chasidic singing superstar Avraham Fried.
