Numerous sources are reporting that Jacob Ostreicher has been released from Bolivia, and has arrived in the United States.
Almost a year after its planned opening in January, the Chabad of Boca Raton dedicated its mikvah on Sunday.
Eli and Esther (nee Kurinsky) Wilansky (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)
This Chanukah, Crown Heights’s female JNet volunteers of all ages and backgrounds enjoyed a delicious evening of inspiration and community building.
As Ukrainian Jewish leaders appear split over supporting the opposition movement protesting in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, one of Ukraine’s chief rabbis is advocating the formation of a national unity government to resolve the country’s political crisis over its relationship with the European Union and Russia.
Only in Texas will you find rabbis and ‘wildcatters’ dancing in an oil field: Rabbi Zvi Drizin, director of Intown Chabad in Dallas, celebrates oil-rigger Bobby’s Bar Mitzvah with him as he puts on Tefilin for the first time in his life.
Another snowmaker is in the works and heading towards the Big Apple.
Why would Rabbi Yossi and Mushka Greenberg, along with their 10-month-old son, leave their Chassidic community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to move around the corner from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio? To establish a Chabad on Campus center, of course!
Boruch and Breindel (nee Zilberstrom) Livnoni (Tiberius, Israel)
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, one of the leading Poskim in postwar United States, and Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, Rov of Crown Heights, have a scholarly conversation in 770, 1974.
In what might be a first in vocational training, a South Florida Chabad center on Wednesday announced it will commence a ‘Career Camp’ that trains children as young as five to be bakers, bankers and other heretofore adult jobs.
Police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with a handful of Brooklyn cab robberies, one of which took place in Crown Heights.
Hersh and Leah Batkin (Stamford, CT)
Jerusalem got over 4 feet of snow, and winter in New York does not begin until December 21s, but over Shabbos Crown Heights got a dusting of snow which accumulated up to 6 inches. Our photographer took a walk Motzai Shabbos and captured the scenes.
With Bill de Blasio taking office as mayor in January, New York City appears poised for a resurgence of liberal policies.
It’s been more than 3 years since the last election for Vaad and Rabbonim. The turn-out last time was unprecedented, and I believe it demonstrated the Schcuna’s desire for change.
Every December, Americans open their wallets a little bit wider, making donations to their favorite causes as the year comes to a close and tax season looms just ahead. It’s also a time of year when many charities are wondering how to teach a young generation about the importance of philanthropy.
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