Video: Crown Heights Blogger Wins Food Award
Chanie Apfelbaum, a Crown Heights resident who blogs about Kosher cooking under the pseudonym Busy in Brooklyn, recently won an award for a delicious mushroom dish.
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3 Caught After Violently Mugging Young Woman
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.
Terror that Grips Lubavitch: Shameless Chillul Yom Tov
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.
Photo: Bechadrei Charedim.
10-Year-Old Accident Victim in Critical Condition
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.
Video: Police Investigate More Hate Messages
Police are investigating more anti-Semitic messages left in Crown Heights and Williamsburg.
Video: Newark Mayor Delivers a Dvar Torah
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.”
A Chabad Rabbi learns with Jewish public school students in Montreal.
Montreal School Board Shuts Down Jewish Kids’ Club
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.
Canadian Jewish News
Exhibition Fuses Chasidism and Contemporary Art
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.
A New Twist on an Old Tradition
Rabbi Avi Zwiebel has resorted to pedal power to make the Jewish holiday of Sukkot more accessible and green.
Mail Tribune
New Engagement!
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.]
Top: Rabbi Mendal Blecher, his wife, Leah, and their five month old daughter, Chaya. Bottom: The brand new Chabad of The Woodlands building.
Woodlands Jewish Community Finds a Home
Chabad of The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston, Texas, celebrated the High Holidays this month in a new home.
Houston Chronicle
Traffic Accidents, Fatal Fires Down in NYC
New York City’s annual report card says the number of residents killed in traffic accidents plunged considerably over the last year.
Tufts Chabad House Gives Students Family Atmosphere
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.
Tufts Daily
Baby Girl!
Yehuda and Chana (nee Rosen) Joffre (Crown Heights)
Schach Pickup Information
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.
Families gather at the Borenstein’s home in North Andover to celebrate the Sukkot holy day with “Pizza in the Sukkah” on Sept. 22.
Young Couple Opens Massachusetts Town’s First Shul
The Jewish community of North Andover, Massachusetts and several surrounding towns now have their own synagogue.
Wicked Local
New Engagement!
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]
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