Alternate Side Parking Regulations will be suspended citywide today, Wednesday, January 29, to facilitate winter weather preparations and snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
Dovid and Mushky (nee Sirota) Caytak (Jerusalem, Israel)
Marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Monday at the Jewish Heritage Museum in Moscow were 25 foreign diplomats, who paid tribute to the Jewish victims of the Nazis on the day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945.
Over 1,000 women, young and old, gathered at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem last Thursday evening to mark the 26th Yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, OBM.
Holocaust Memorial Day was marked Monday morning at a service at the Holocaust Memorial Garden in Valentines Park, Ilford, UK, which included readings from Rabbi Geoffrey Hyman, of Ilford United Synagogue, and Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin of the Chabad Lubavitch Centre in Ilford.
Akiva and Chaya (nee Chazan) Isenberg (Crown Heights)
For many New Yorkers, crossing the street in the middle of the block or against the light is a way of life, part of an attitude that tells everybody, “I’m walkin’ here!”
We present an article written by the JTA’s Ben Harris after he attended the Kinus Hashluchos gala banquet on Sunday, which was published in several Jewish publications in the U.S. and Israel.
The Zenta Rebbe, Rabbi Lipa Teitelbaum, brother of the Satmar Rebbes of Kiryas Yoel and Williamsburg, visited the Chabad Cheder in Zhitomir amid a tour of Kivrei Tzadikim in Western Ukraine.
In honor of Aleph’s upcoming auction, which I encourage all of you to participate in, I thought it would be appropriate to present an overview of the Rebbe’s efforts in helping Jewish prison inmates.
Shneur Zalmen (ben R’ Mendel) Raicez (Crown Heights) and Raizy (bas R’ Yossi) Chein (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday, at Eshel
272 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
On a visit to the Manchester Mesivta in the UK, Chasidic singing star Avraham Fried interrupted his performance in the school’s gym to throw a basketball at the hoop located at the other end of the court, proving that singing is not his only skill. Watch the video in the extended article to find out if he makes the shot.
“I want to write Schvartze on your face and then take a picture.”
I was stunned and not stunned. This is what I was here for. It had to come down to this. I was sitting with photographer Steve Rosenfield, creator of the What I be Project. Steve offers people the opportunity to express their insecurities, by writing them on their faces. After a discussion about myself, Steve and I decided we would write Shvartze (yiddish/german for black) on my face.
A winter Motzei Shabbos can really drag on, but for one group of young women with special needs, it never seemed long enough.
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya (nee Bogart) Elisha (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 808 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Albany Aves.] 3rd Floor
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Trumah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the secret to living a G-dly life in your thoughts, speech and actions?
Agudas Kiryas Chabad and Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim of Tzfas hosted a Seudas Melava Malka and Farbrengen in honor of the recent Siyum HoRambam – the conclusion of the 32nd study cycle and the start of the 33rd, and marking 30 years since the start of the study regimen by the Rebbe.
