Melissa Mark-Viverito
Liberal Firebrand Elected Speaker of City Council
A staunch liberal ally of newly elected mayor Bill de Blasio has been elected as New York City council speaker today.
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From Days Gone By: The Original ‘770 Bochurim’
This photo is of the first students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in 770. It was taken shortly after the Yeshiva moved into the newly purchased Eastern Parkway building in the early 1940s.
Man Arrested for Stealing Clothes from Mikvah
This morning, some men who were using the Mikvah at Eliyahu Nochum Shul on Lefferts Ave. were shocked upon returning to the dressing room to find that several articles of their clothing were missing.
Photos: Flatbush School Bus Bursts into Flame
A school bus burst into flames on Avenue N between Coney Island Avenue and East 10th Street in Flatbush Tuesday morning, minutes after unloading the children at a nearby school. Boruch Hashem, there were no injuries.
Confirmed: Shlichus to Count as IDF National Service
The work of 100 men serving overseas as emissaries on behalf of Chabad will count as national service, a Knesset committee decided.
Times of Israel
Info to Be Menachem Avel Mr. Howard Sherman
Mr. Howard Sherman is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, Nathan, OBM, at 679 Lefferts Ave. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim
Left: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Right: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Mayor De Blasio, Governor Cuomo Spar on Taxes
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio surrounded himself with labor leaders Monday morning, the latest choreographed show of support for his signature campaign promise to fund universal pre-kindergarten programs with a tax increase on the wealthy.
AP
Video: A Word on the Parsha with Rabbi Minkowicz
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Beshalach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How should one view the challenges and difficulties in doing what G-d wants?
Yisroel Taub (left), 10, from Pittsburgh, and Menacham Krinsky, 12, from Hillsborough, N.J., have fun at Tzeirei Hashluchim, a Jewish camp held in December at the new South Florida Jewish Retreat Center in Lake Worth.
Chabad Opens Jewish Retreat Center in South Florida
According to Rabbi Yosef Y. Biston, the spiritual leader of the Chabad of Parkland, the regional headquarters for Chabad of North Broward and South Palm Beach, “The Chabad philosophy does not measure success in physical terms — with figures, tables, charts, graphs and numbers. We don’t keep a list — every mitzvah is a success in itself. We’re not counting. We’re doing.”
Florida Sun-Sentinel
Video: The Yuppets Expose a Cult
In an effort to satirize the recent controversies regarding The Call of the Shofar, Yossi Berktin, a Chabad filmmaker and comedian, produced the following video featuring an interview with the leader of The Tent of Avraham, a (fictional) Jewish ‘health and happiness therapy spa.’
Video: What’s the Best Way to Fundraise?
In anticipation of the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva Chinese Auction, which will take place January 19, Meir Kalmanson sets out to discover what is the best way to raise money for charity.
Videos: Rabbi Shea Hecht Q&A on Call of the Shofar
On Sunday evening thousands of listeners tuned in to a live broadcast with Rabbi Shea Hecht, which was organized by CrownHeights.info in order to bring clarity and closure amid the uproar over the infiltration of the Call of the Shofar ‘cult’ into our community.
Menacham Stark, 39, HYD.
Stark Partner Outraged by Reports He May Be Suspect
The business partner of slain Chasidic landlord Menachem Stark, is “distraught” and “outraged” by a report that he may be considered a suspect in the recent murder of his friend, his lawyer told The Algemeiner on Tuesday.
Video: Sensitivity in Code
When Mrs. Shulamis Saxon wrote a letter to the Rebbe just days before her Bas Mitzvah, instead of simply asking for a blessing, she decided that she would bless the Rebbe as well.
Rising Rents Blamed for Disappearing Gas Stations
Real estate prices in Brooklyn’s booming neighborhoods could make it harder for drivers to find gas in the future. In Crown Heights, some are blaming the closure of two neighborhood gas stations in the past month on the rising rental market.
Pix 11 News
Baby Girl!
Dani and Shaina Mushka (nee Fass) Loigman (Crown Heights)
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