An amazing effort by both vigilant community members and Shomrim volunteers resulted in the apprehension of three teens who assaulted and mugged a young woman, making off with her cell phone. Police brass worked hand in hand with Shomrim, which resulted in the muggers’ identification and arrest.
After we shined a spotlight on the actions of a group of violent thugs in 770 last week, thousands of Anash expressed their reactions in the form of emails and comments. Several ‘angels of peace’ attempted to spin, rationalize and explain away their actions; but new revelations prove that those actions stretch further back – and are even more shocking – than we would all like to believe.
A 10-year-old boy from a Chabad family in Kiryat Ata, Israel was struck by a vehicle today as he was riding his bicycle.
Police are investigating more anti-Semitic messages left in Crown Heights and Williamsburg.
Corey Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey and Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, delivers a Dvar Torah based on Chasidic interpretation of the Posuk “Ve’asu Li Mikdash V’Shachanti Besocham.”
The English Montreal School Board is citing a 16-year-old law to explain why extracurricular Jewish clubs at three of its high schools aren’t being permitted this fall after having run for as long as five years.
The Creative Soul, an organization that fuses Chasidic Judaism and contemporary art, hosted an exhibition titled “Pure Joy” as part of its annual celebration of creativity on the holiday of Sukkos.
Rabbi Avi Zwiebel has resorted to pedal power to make the Jewish holiday of Sukkot more accessible and green.
Yisroel Sternbach (Crown Heights) and Mushka Gurevitch (Chicago, IL)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
Chabad of The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston, Texas, celebrated the High Holidays this month in a new home.
New York City’s annual report card says the number of residents killed in traffic accidents plunged considerably over the last year.
Rabbi Tzvi and Chanie Backman of the Rohr Chabad House at Tufts University in Massachusetts work furiously to act as the Jewish role models that students on campus may be missing. Attending college is the first time many students spend away from the comfort of their home communities. To fill that void for Jewish students on the Hill, the Chabad House claims to offer a home away from home.
Yehuda and Chana (nee Rosen) Joffre (Crown Heights)
The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the Schach picked up.
The Jewish community of North Andover, Massachusetts and several surrounding towns now have their own synagogue.
Yossi Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Brocha Dalfin (Boro Park, Brooklyn)
L’Chaim Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
The Raitport Family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and brother, Reb Eliyahu, OBM; at 1480 Carroll St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] until Friday afternoon, and at 1739 49th St. in Borough Park until Monday morning. Shacharis – 8:00 Mincha – Shkia Maariv – Tzeis At the […]
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