The 11 year-old son of Menachem Stark, a Chasidic landlord who was murdered a few months ago, was robbed at knife-point in Williamsburg Monday evening by three teenaged hoodlums who threatened to kill him before making off with his bicycle.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Bamidbar. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the greatest asset of the Jewish people?
On Monday evening, a Chabad family, Shluchim in the south of Israel, suffered through a terrifying ordeal when their vehicle was ambushed by a group of Bedouins as they were traveling through the Negev desert. The mob surrounded their vehicle and attempted to smash through the windows with large rocks.
Orthodox-Jewish Comedian Turx goes shopping for the first time in his life. This short video of his exploits in the supermarket was produced in tribute to Hatzalah of Lakewood.
Sruly and Aviva (nee Levitansky) Katz (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Walter Mosley, whose district includes parts of Crown Heights, for a TV talk show called ‘The Jewish View.’
The annual regional Kinus for shluchos in Europe – held this year in Budapest, Hungary – concluded earlier this week. The Shluchos left inspired and rejuvenated after a weekend filled with shiurim, farbrengens, interesting sessions and an enjoyable sailing trip.
Shmuel Cooper (Jerusalem, Israel) and Sarah Steiner (Jerusalem, Israel)
Over the course of Sunday’s Great Lag Ba’omer Parade in Crown Heights, four educational and entertaining videos were played on the massive screens all across Eastern Parkway for the thousands of gathered children to see and enjoy. We present them in the extended article for our readers to enjoy as well.
A 2-year-old boy has just fallen out of a window on the 6th floor of the 580 Crown Street Condos, and landed on a balcony 3 stories below. He is in critical condition. Please say Tehilim for Chaim Yisroel Levi Yitzchok Halevi ben Sarah Rivkah. Article Updated last at 3:20pm.
On Lag Ba’omer one of the most beautiful and central streets of Berlin – Kurfüstendamm – was occupied by hundreds of marching people, taking part in the Jewish Parade for Peace and Tolerance.
Alon and Sarah Malka (nee Horowitz) Asefovitz (Los Angeles, CA)
This year all public Lag Ba’omer celebrations on the Crimean peninsula, a Ukrainian province which had recently been annexed by Russia, had to be cancelled due to the fact that it coincided with a day of mourning for the local Tatar population. Instead, the Jewish community of Simferopol traveled out to the countryside for a unique Lag Ba’omer celebration.
Yaakov Yosef and Chaya Mushka (nee Blumenfeld) Raskin (Lima, Peru)
An Orthodox-Jewish woman is suing Staten Island University Hospital and two of its physicians, claiming she was forced to undergo a cesarean section against her will.
Over 4,000 men, women and children gathered for a Lag BaOmer celebration in in Cote Saint Luc, Montreal, in a display of Jewish pride and unity.
Cheder at the Ohel, known as an excellent, small, Chassidish school just outside of the city whose student body consists of Lubavitch boys from Long Island, Queens, Crown Heights and Connecticut, has announced that a new full-time principal will be joining their staff.
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