Our Parsha introduces the iconic biblical giant; our patriarch Avraham, with the words “Lech L’cha!” “And G-d said to Avram, ‘Go to [for] yourself from your land and from your birthplace and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you!’” (Breishis 12:1)
Melbourne welcomed its newest group of student Shluchim to the Rabbinical College of Australia and NZ (Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne) on Thursday. Strangers joined in the singing and dancing in the airport terminal!
One of our readers observed an interesting practice by a local boys’ school while driving through Borough Park today. The school’s staff blocked off the street with metal barricades while the boys were playing outside.
A woman was struck by a car this morning while trying to making her way across Eastern Parkway.
After losing their OK Hasgacha to alleged Kashrus violations, a new ‘Hechsher’ certificate appeared this morning in the window of Chocolatte, a Crown Heights cafe.
Yossi Klyne (Manchester, UK) and Rochel Gorelik (Naharia, Israel)
The two rabbis offered an unusual service to Jewish women who could not get their husbands to agree to a divorce, according to the FBI. For a fee, they would convene a rabbinical court and authorize the use of violence to get a recalcitrant husband to agree to a divorce.
Over a thousand homes are without water this morning in Montreal after a water main on the corner of Westbury and Barclay Sts. burst, forcing four homes to be evacuated and flooding many basements.
The students of Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore organized ‘Mishmor’ – a weekly learning program for boys ages 7 and older – last night, with over 30 children in attendance.
After a year of hard work by the administration to reorganize the Yeshiva, the school year at Tzeirei Hashluchim of Tzfas has gotten off to a wonderful start. Classes began yesterday under the leadership of Rabbi Zalman Kaplan.
Meyer and Miriam (nee Rahmani) Litzman (Phoenix, AZ)
A 14-year-old boy from Queens, who is mute and autistic, has the entire city on alert and searching for him since he went missing six days ago. Police received a tip that he may have been seen in Crown Heights, which brought dozens of police officers into the neighborhood.
A delegation of Lubavitcher Rabbonim and Shluchim visited the Yosef family, who are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, former Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, OBM.
Millions of Americans will see a drop in their food stamps benefit next month as a temporary increase is set to expire.
Rabbi Yisroel Bernath of Chabad of NDG in Montreal went on the Tommy Schnurmacher radio show, together with a Muslim imam and a Christian priest, to discuss the proposed Quebec charter of values that would ban religious clothing in public places. They snapped a photo together after the show.
Chabad at Arizona State University welcomed Rabbi Mendy and Sarah Rimler, and their daughter, Chayale. The couple joins the organization’s founding directors, Rabbi Shmuel and Chana Tiechtel.
My first ever trip to Crown Heights, I am filled with excitement. My heart races as my thoughts and prayers begin to align. Each stop draws me closer and closer to the meeting point, the springboard for the night, a synagogue named Chevra Ahavas Yisroel. This synagogue is frequented by singles and young marrieds, inspired types, warm types, sincere types.
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