Judaica collectors are abuzz about an item that was recently put up for sale: the oldest known copy of the infamous ‘Cherem HaGra.’ It was issued against the Chasidim of the Alter Rebbe around the year 1800 by the leaders of the Jewish community in Lithuania, and was signed by the revered Vilna Gaon.
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Alternate Side Parking Regulations are suspended citywide on Friday, January 3 to facilitate snow removal. Parking meters remain in effect.
More than 150 members of the MetroWest Jewish Community joined together at the Boston Newton Marriott to celebrate the 26th Gala Anniversary of the Chabad Center of Natick, Massachusetts.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Dovid Lieblich (Crown Heights) and Rochel Wiener (Detroit, MI), which took place Sunday, December 29, at Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights.
This morning, a young Jewish man was walking down Crown St. from Kingston toward Brooklyn Ave. while talking on the phone to his soon-to-be bride. Suddenly, the phone was snatched out of his hand by an African-American man and his accomplice.
Rabbi Dov Gruzman, Shliach and volunteer Hatzalah member in Vienna, Austria, dons an orange jacket as he trains in Israel with the Magen Dovid Adom on responding to medical emergencies.
The Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, is in Palm Springs, California for a three week resting period. As in the past several years, R’ Aharon Davens during the week at the local Chabad House, directed by Rabbi Yonason Denebeim.
While most children may still be in school, there are many that have two weeks off for winter vacation. For Children with special needs the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn held its annual winter camp, under the direction of Rabbi Berel and Chani Majesky.
On Motzei Shabbos, members of the Montreal Lubavitch community gathered in the “Yeshiva Zal” for a Farbrengen and Melava Malka commemorating Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, OBM, affectionately known in Lubavitch as “Reb Volf,” whose Yahrzeit was on the 19th of Teves.
Apartment asking rents in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant climbed 8.8 percent during 2013, according to industry data.
Bill de Blasio took the oath of office administered by former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday, formally becoming the 109th mayor of New York City while pledging to pursue a sweeping liberal agenda.
Alternate Side Parking Regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Thursday, January 2, to facilitate snow preparations. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
More snow and cold weather is expected to start the year 2014. Weather reports say that Winter Storm Hercules is expected to unload six to ten inches of snow in New York City starting Wednesday night.
Over the past week and a half, the Jewish Released Time program, under the auspices of the NCFJE, arranged two camps for public school children during their winter vacation, with over 70 children in attendance.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Felicia Bryn, OBM, of Sunny Isles Beach, FL, wife of Rabbi Nathan Bryn, OBM, and mother of beloved Florida Shliach Reb Dovid Bryn, OBM.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Chaim Katzir, OBM, a respected member of the Lubavitch community in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 64.
Talk about taking a break for Shabbos. “We were deep in the process of putting the pieces together for our next album,” says Benny Friedman, “when we decided to go in another direction and create something different and special.”
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