Temperatures in Crown Heights plunged last night into the single digits, but that did not stop a determined resident from chasing down, barefoot and in pajamas, a burglar he witnessed inside his car.
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One person was hurt when the minivan he was driving was struck by an FDNY ambulance that was responding to an emergency. Hatzalah and Shomrim gave assistance, and made a big Kiddush Hashem in the process.
Oholei Torah’s younger division, grades Pre-1A through 2nd, held their annual father and son Melava Malka and Farbrengen, which coincided with Hey Teves. The students enjoyed musical entertainment, prizes and a special program in honor of Hey Teves.
Chicago Shliach Rabbi Baruch Hertz, along with his wife Chanie and a few of their children, walks 5.5 miles on Shabbos in order to serve two congregations, one in Lakeview and the other in West Rogers Park. A DNAInfo/Chicago reporter tagged along one Shabbos and prepared an inspiring story on what he witnessed.
With the opening last week of the new Ten Yad Jewish Center in São Paulo, Brazil, the much adored tradition of Chanukah Gelt has taken an enormous leap. Until recently, Ten Yad’s acclaimed soup kitchen fed the hungry; now the social services arm of Chabad of São Paulo is providing access to the kinds of benefits that will raise the quality of life for the city’s struggling Jewish population.
I was not molested as a child, yet a number of close friends were. Boruch Hashem, the perpetrators are locked up. The tide has turned, and molestation is no longer tolerated, nor swept under the rug. Yet, there are some real questions that no one seems willing to address in a meaningful way.
A Chanukah menorah candle lighting ceremony took place every night of Chanukah at the Tachana Rishona (First Station) complex in Jerusalem.
When Rabbi Yudi Winterfeld, director of Chabad of Mile End, ordered the “pedi-Sukkah” from a company in upstate New York, he didn’t expect such positive response in Outremont, an area where Chassidim and their neighbours appear to be at odds with one another. He also initially thought that when the Sukkos holiday would finish, he would throw the pedi-Sukkah, a Sukkah connected to a bicycle, into storage.
Over Chanukah, the children who spent last summer at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY were delighted to find a special Chanukah edition of the CGI Newsletter awaiting each of them in their respective mail boxes.
The construction of an 8 foot Rainbow-Loom Menorah was the highlight of the annual Chanukah celebration at Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold, NJ on Sunday, Dec 1st.
On Sunday, the fifth night of Chanukah, the second annual public Menorah lighting in Kanata – a suburb of Ottawa – was dedicated in memory of Rabbi Mordechai Berger, OBM, the Rebbe’s first Shliach to Canada’s capital city.
About a thousand children and parents from various communities of Montreal participated in the 41st annual Chanukah Spectacular & Carnival at Beth Rivkah.
Remember that feeling when you saw something you’ve only heard about for the first time in your life? Remember the emotion? It’s a pretty cool moment, isn’t it?
Chabad of Canberra, Australia’s Capital Territory, lit a public six foot Menorah erected at Westfield Belconnen in the presence of hundreds of people. It was followed by a community-wide celebration kicking off the first night of Chanukah.
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