Twin Boys!
Yossi and Mushki (nee Kurtz) Agulnik (Ottawa, Canada)
Wednesday: Rally at the Ohel
This Wednesday, the 15th of Teves (December 18), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12. Buses will leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm. Transportation will cost $3.
NYPD Releases Interactive Crime Map
The City of New York debuted an interactive crime map that enables the public to search and access basic data on felony crime occurrences by location. It’s accessible through the NYPD website at maps.nyc.gov/crime.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Tuesday
Alternate Side Parking Regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Tuesday, December 17, to facilitate snow removal. Parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
Authorities Seize Two Children from Lev Tahor Sect
Two children from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group Lev Tahor have been seized by Canadian child-protection officials.
Report: Jacob Ostreicher Released from Bolivia
Numerous sources are reporting that Jacob Ostreicher has been released from Bolivia, and has arrived in the United States.
Chabad of Boca Raton Dedicates New Mikvah
Almost a year after its planned opening in January, the Chabad of Boca Raton dedicated its mikvah on Sunday.
Baby Girl!
Eli and Esther (nee Kurinsky) Wilansky (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)
Women’s Evening Spotlights JNet Volunteers
This Chanukah, Crown Heights’s female JNet volunteers of all ages and backgrounds enjoyed a delicious evening of inspiration and community building.
Ukrainian Chief Rabbis Split over Dealing with Protests
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.
Video: Bar Mitzvah in an Oil Field
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.
Snow Respite Short-Lived with Storm Expected Tuesday
Another snowmaker is in the works and heading towards the Big Apple.
New ‘Home Away From Home’ for Ohio Students
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!
Baby Boy!
Boruch and Breindel (nee Zilberstrom) Livnoni (Tiberius, Israel)
From Days Gone By: Torah Giants Converse
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.
Chabad Career Camp to Vocationally Train Children
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.
Cab Driver Robbed by ‘Passenger’ in Crown Heights
Police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with a handful of Brooklyn cab robberies, one of which took place in Crown Heights.
