The commanding officer of the 71st Precinct, Deputy Inspector George Fitzgibbon, visited Darchei Menachem this afternoon, where he met with the school’s administrator, principal and other members of the faculty to discuss yesterday’s rock throwing incident against several students, which left a 9-year-old boy with an eye injury.
Keren Simchas Chosson V’kallah is seeking 130 people who will donate 100 dollars each in the zechus of finding a Shidduch for themselves or for one of their children.
Hate crimes in New York grew 30 percent between 2011 and 2012, to a total of 702 incidents last year, state records show.
Last week, the Israeli Deputy Minister of Education, Mr. Avi Worzman, paid a visit to the Or Avner Chabad Educational Institute in Elmhurst, Queens, run by local Shluchim Rabbi Zalman Zalmanov and Rabbi Yitzchok Wolowik.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayishlach.
Aside from soft drinks, there isn’t much at your typical college basketball arena that qualifies as kosher. Not the nachos, and certainly not the hot dogs.
Sruly and Kiki (nee Deitsch) Baitelman (New Haven, CT)
Avi Ifergan (London, England) and Riva Goldwasser (Pittsburgh, PA)
Chabad shluchim in Ukraine do not feel safe amid growing anti-Semitism, despite increased efforts by local police. Two pig heads were placed in a shul a number of days ago in Sevastopol, a city in Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
A brand new Sefer Torah was completed this afternoon at the Ohel. The new Torah was written and completed in memory of Mrs. Devorah Krinsky OBM, wife of Rabbi Yehudah Krinsky YBDL, Chairman of Merkos Linyonei Chinuch. Its writing began on the eve of the Shloshim to her passing.
At around 4:15pm today, Wednesday, as children all over the neighborhood were making their way home from school, a number of Jewish kids were pelted with rocks – and one of whom was struck in the face – in a random attack perpetrated by youth believed to be from a nearby public school.
When a photo they published of a man on the subway allowing another to sleep on his shoulder undisturbed went viral, the Facebook group Charidy decided to see for themselves how many people would let a random stranger sleep on their shoulder on the subway.
About 80 rabbis and leaders of the Bucharian Jewish community gathered in Elmhurst, Queens for a gala dinner last week. The dinner was arranged by local Shluchim Rabbi Zalman Zalmanov and Rabbi Yitzchok Wolowik, along with community leader Mr. Simcha Eliyashev.
Appearing on Real News TV, Lubavitcher Dovid Efune, Editor-in-chief of the Algemeiner Journal, said that sanctions on Iran should be escalated until the country volunteers to halt its nuclear program.
While their fathers participated in the International Kinus Hashluchim earlier this month, the ‘Tzeirai Hashluchim’ had a program of their own, from which they drew inspiration for the rest of the year.
Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, presented a special lecture for parents on identifying and treating childhood anxiety and OCD disorders at an Oholei Torah PTA event.
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