Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews held a mass prayer in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest at a bill that would cut their community’s military exemptions and end a tradition upheld since Israel’s foundation.
As the city of Simferopol filled with chaos, Russian soldiers and tanks taking control of the government buildings, airports and streets of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the Shluchim in the city had no choice but to flee their home for the relative safety of Donetsk on Ukraine’s mainland.
Yehuda Shomer (Toronto, Canada) and Esther Schulman (Pittsburgh, PA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday, at Eshel
274 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Born in Kuwait and raised a Muslim, Mark Halawa was taught that Jews are bad. Everything he learned about Jews warned him to keep his distance.
The Camp Emunah Scholarship Fund has released another short video as the drawing for their first annual Split the Pot Raffle is less than 24 hours away.
1,000 Jewish teens from 104 cities around the world converged in Crown Heights last night for the start of the annual CTeen Shabbaton.
The Israeli Minster of Agriculture, Mr. Yair Shamir, arrived this week for an official state visit to Nigeria, a country in western Africa. During his stay, he visited the local Chabad center, directed by Rabbi Yisroel Ozen, with the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Uri Palti.
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘The Value of an Uninspired Mitzva‘.
In the Book of Exodus, the Jewish people are instructed to contribute a half-shekel coin towards the building of the tabernacle as “atonement for their souls,” and the commentaries explain that it atoned for the grievous sin of the golden calf.
Wednesday at 5:00pm, an on-duty police officer was shot at Empire Boulevard and Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. Police officer James Li is recovering from gunshot wounds to his groin, leg and thigh, and it turns out that he and his partner were chasing two men who had boarded a B46 without paying.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic: The month of Adar by the Rebbe.
A 67-year-old man was found tied up, beaten and stabbed, inside his apartment on Albany Avenue. His death was ruled a homicide and police are investigating.
The new board of Bais Shmuel – a prominent Crown Heights Shul – has announced that this Shabbos is the last the congregation will spend at its current location in Chovevei Torah. Starting next Shabbos (Parshas Vayikra), the Shul will be Davening on Shabbos and Yomtov at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Baruch and Chaya (nee Levilev) Goldberg
1313 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Nuttie and Brochie (nee Barnett) Shpigelman
327 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
Noach and Dina (nee Elberg) Hurwitz
1523 President St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Chaim and Sarale (nee Freund) Schochet
430 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Mendy and Miki (nee Mishulovin) Mochkin
375 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Meir and Perel Kahanov
502 New York Ave. [between Sterling St. and Lefferts Ave.] Apt. #6A
Meir and Nechama (nee Horowitz) Paris
467 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Binyamin and Leah (nee Rhodes) Salomon
1639 Burnett St. Brooklyn, NY 11229
Mendel and Mushka (nee Sudak) Morozow
565 Maple St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe at a children’s rally in the early 1970s.
“Can’t anything in the world ever go right?” These words of frustration, uttered by my six year old son, remain etched in my memory. They came after a valiant struggle with a model airplane, which, as you probably have guessed, ended in disappointment. I’ve since heard these words repeated by people of all ilk.
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