CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A frantic mother called the Shomrim hotline after her six-year-old boy, who has down syndrome, had vanished after she took her eyes off him for just a minute.
One day, not too long ago, I got an email from a Rabbi Werde, requesting a meeting. Eager to make a new friend, I spent three hours with him in my office. We began working together on establishing the Chabad Chasidic Entrepreneurs Program of Crown Heights. Chabad means wisdom, understanding, knowledge. Chasidic means pious, kind. So, a person of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge is also pious and kind — this concept really resonated with me because of my great admiration for educators.
A rear-end collision occurred at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. at about 6:00pm last evening, in almost exactly the same spot and at almost exactly the same time as the accident which occurred there one day earlier.
Moshe Kulek (Chicago, IL) and Mimi Shifren (Los Angeles, CA)
L’chaim will be Wednesday, August 21, at 692 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.] at 8:00pm.
On Sunday the Jewish community of Belle Harbor, NY celebrated another post-Sandy milestone, with the completion of its newly rebuilt Mikvah after it was destroyed during hurricane Sandy last fall.
Stores would be required to slap a 10-cent fee on every plastic and paper bag they give out under a new law being introduced in the New York City Council.
The Merkos Chinuch Office tried a bold experiment and it was a rousing success. In lieu of the summer Chinuch Kinusim (conferences), the Chinuch Office organized a month-long series of on-line Chinuch presentations in Webinar form, which enabled hundreds of educators from across the globe to join, watch, listen and learn.
Yanky Shemtov (Tucson, AZ) and Faigy New (Melbourne, Australia)
On a July afternoon, the kitchen at Chabad Lubavitch in El Paso, Texas was hotter than a desert full of burning bushes. No surprise, considering the amount of cooking that went on that day.
One week after his death, friends and family members are remembering Nicaragua’s only Orthodox Jew, who passed away, at the age of 86 after suffering a stroke several months ago.
The S. Paulo Jewish community came together Monday night to celebrate the granting of Smicah to seven students of yeshiva Lubavitch Ohel Menachem Mendel of S. Paulo, Brazil.
Rabbi Avi Richler, Shliach in Mullica Hill, NJ, delivered the state senate invocation at the last session before Rosh Hashana.
Yesterday evening at about 7:00pm, a car crashed into the rear of an SUV on the service lane of Eastern Parkway, right in front of the Jewish Children’s Museum.
With the conclusion camps and the few days till school begins, many children who rely on the lunch provided by camp or school may miss that meal and remain hungry. Enter the free lunch truck, giving away 1000 healthy meals a day – no questions asked.
For the first time in history, a majority of the books of Rambam’s Mishneh Torah were recorded as video classes and made accessible to the global Jewish community.
Following the success of their Mitzvah Boulevard series, producers of the Torah Treasures series of children’s videos have sought to fill the glaring gap in kosher children’s education and entertainment video market. Their newest video shows kids the Wonders of Hashem in an exciting safari adventure.
One of the first Siyum HaRambams is celebrated in Cairo, Egypt at the Maimonides Synagogue. Can you identify those in the photo and the year it was taken?
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