10-Year-Old Borough Park Boy Falls into Manhole
A 10-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy is hospitalized in stable condition after falling 20 feet into an open manhole in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
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Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Moshe Lipa Rabinowitz, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the tragic passing of Rabbi Moshe Lipa Rabinowitz, OBM, a longtime member of the Chabad community in Jerusalem, Israel. He was 78 years old.
Mrs. Dinah Abrahamson, OBM, with her son and daughter in Crown Heights.
Wednesday: Shloshim for Mrs. Dinah Abrahamson, OBM
A Shloshim memorial event marking 30 days since the passing of Mrs. Dinah Abrahamson, OBM will take place this Wednesday, 14 Shevat (January 15) at YAM, 268 Brooklyn Avenue on the corner of Lincoln Place at 8:00pm.
New Engagement!
Yossi (ben Reuvain) Blau (Crown Heights) and Mushkie (bas Berel) Zwiebel (Crown Heights)
Friendship Circle Celebrates Yud Shvat
The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, under the direction of Rabbi Berel and Chani Majesky, hosted a grand Yud Shvat Farbrengen for its Boys’ Divison.
Shluchim Provide Creative Winter Enrichment for Youth
Chabad of Orange County, NY, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, recently hosted a winter enrichment program for children at “Come Craft with Me” in Monroe. The program was well attended by children of all ages from throughout the county.
Baby Boy!
Levi and Leah (nee Silberstein) Schapiro (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1429 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Residents: New Nostrand Ave. Bus Lane Causing Traffic
The new B44 Select Bus Service has snarled traffic on Nostrand Avenue, choking a key Brooklyn corridor and doubling travel times, local drivers and business owners say.
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Video: Kiddush Hashem on ABC
An Orthodox Jew appears on an ABC TV program, titled What Would You Do?, and makes a Kiddush Hashem.
Shomrim Coordinate Safety with Precinct Commander
On Thursday night, the Commanding Officer of the 71st Precinct, Inspector George Fitzgibbon, invited the volunteers of the Crown Heights Shomrim for a meeting at the police station, to improve coordination with the NYPD over the neighborhood’s safety.
Letter from Rov Results in a 25% Increase in Sales
A letter released by Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Askenazi, the Rov of Kfar Chabad, two months ago has resulted in a 25% increase in purchases of DVDs.
Parksville Campers and Staff Reconnect
Campers and staff of Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY, gathered on Sunday for an amazing and enjoyable Camp reunion.
Please Say Tehillim For…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima for Rivka Chaya Hinda bas Nechama Gittel, a Shlucha who is undergoing crucial surgery, and for Yitzchak ben Sora, a 71-year-old undergoing a cardiac procedure.
European Rabbis in Hamburg for Mikvah Conference
Dozens of Rabbonim and Shluchim from all over Europe gathered in Hamburg, Germany for a conference on the Halachic requirements for building and maintaining a Kosher Mikvah.
Apartments owned by Menachem Stark, HYD.
Op-Ed: Assassination by Cliché
Character assassination is a misuse of freedom of the press. Especially when the assassination is based on speculation.
by Aliza Bas Menachem
Ariel Sharon donning tefillin with Chabad at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 1967, shortly after the Six-Day War. Photo: Chabad.org.
Ariel Sharon, a Jew with a Jewish Heart
Writing for the Times of Israel, Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, Shliach to Yorba Linda, California, reminisces about a terse encounter he had with Ariel Sharon and their dispute over the events following his visit to the Rebbe in the late 1960s.
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