As the devastating death toll continues to rise following last week’s Typhoon Haiyan that flattened areas of the Philippines, two Sydney-based siblings have reached out to the Jewish community for help.
This was a real pickle, even for a Chabad rabbi. How do you tell congregants that for the next year-and-a-half—while their new building was being constructed—that services, classes and events will be held in a different venue, an unusual venue, a … well, a funeral home?
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hillel Gansburg, OBM, Shliach in Milan, Italy, at the age of 67.
Four city traffic-enforcement agents, with help from their union, have filed a suit against the city and the NYPD claiming they are being penalized if they don’t meet a 3-4 vehicle quota per shift.
Accompanied by a delegation, Mrs. Dorit Golender, the Israeli ambassador to Russia, visited last week the thriving Jewish community of Perm, Russia. She became closely acquainted with the community, its JCC and its educational institutes, under the leadership of Rabbi Zalman and Sarah Deutch.
Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi and Rabbi Pinchas Korf led a Farbrengen Wednesday night at Getzel’s Shul in honor of the 10th of Kislev, the day the Mitteler Rebbe was freed from prison in Czarist Russia.
Houston Rockets basketball star Omri Casspi drops some coins in Chabad of Houston’s ‘Charity Menorah,’ whose proceeds will go toward helping the community’s homebound seniors.
This morning several leaders of Crown Heights’ African-American community held a press conference on the corner of Kingston Ave. and Empire Blvd., decrying the random acts of violence against Jews that have been plaguing the neighborhood for the past several weeks.
Another random assault was perpetrated against a Jewish child in Crown Heights this morning. The perpetrators – a pair of females – have not been apprehended.
A Jewish-Aboriginal didgeridoo player was able to celebrate his bar mitzvah at Uluru recently thanks to the travelling rabbis of Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia (RARA).
Motzei Shabbos Parshas Vayeira, Bnos Chomesh Academy of Crown Heights held its second annual Mother-Daughter Melave Malka.
Avremi Lerner (Kensington, NY) and Chanie Katz (Borough Park, NY)
L’chaim will be tonight, Monday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Local women were treated to an extra special evening, benefiting the PTA of Oholei Torah, with an auction and an ‘interactive exhibit and demo’ featuring cookie designing, fruit styling, makeup artists and hair stylists, alongside a lavish buffet prepared by the school’s cook. UPDATE: Winners list added!
Eli and Batsheva (nee Perlow) Kaminetzky (Taos, New Mexico)
Aryeleib (ben Yitzchok) Pruss (Crown Heights) and Mushkee (bas Dovi) Sperlin (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
A wild scene unfolded in Crown Heights today when police officers attempted to pull over a 15-passenger van. As police approached the van, the driver made a u-turn, struck a police car and number of other cars and fled. The suspect was eventually apprehended.
First it was just the residents, now even the police are frustrated. Just 12 days ago we reported on the arrest of a suspect tied to a string of burglaries that were occurring on Friday night. Just three days later, the suspect was released without bail. This weekend, a Crown Heights resident interrupted a burglary taking place in his home.
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