A lone man wearing gloves, a cap, and a scarf to mask his face sneaked into a diamond show in a luxury Cannes hotel and made off with some $136 million of loot, a French state prosecutor said Monday – more than twice the initial estimated take from the weekend hold-up.
The only complaint the European teens had about the first CTeen Shabbaton in Berlin was that the fun and meaningful weekend was too short; couldn’t they extend the CTeen experience for longer?
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Chana Baras, OBM, wife of Rabbi Gutman Baras, OBM, and senior Shlucha to Long Island, NY.
A successful season of Camp Gan Israel in Lyon, France drew to a close on Friday. More than 350 campers attended, a large percentage of whom were students at non-Jewish schools.
After spending the past week discussing the ins and outs of a Kiddush and Chilul Hashem, Pioneer Division, a Lubavitch boys camp in Miami Beach, Florida put it to the test.
Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, who was shot by “a member of one of the most extreme Islamic terrorist groups in the Chechnya-Caucasus area,” according to the President of Dagestan, Russia, and recovering on Sunday, in “satisfactory condition,” at the Beilinson hospital in Petach Tikva, Israel, said he hoped to return to Dagestan, despite the anti-Semitic violence, according to Israel Channel 2, reporting from the rabbi’s bedside.
Students, alumni, supporters and friends of Chabad on Campus UK gathered at a mid summer reception in Central London this week to celebrate the enormous growth in operations over the last year, serving thousands of Jewish students in the UK and Europe.
Some new Chasidic dancers debuted at the wedding of Gershon Felberbaum in Oholei Torah this past Thursday.
The lives of those going to the National Jewish Retreat just got a little easier. The country’s largest Jewish retreat recently launched a new mobile app that will allow the over 900 attendees to personalize their retreat schedule right on their smart phones. With a swipe and a touch, Retreat goers can browse the array of lectures, have a look at the night’s entertainment, and choose which workshops to attend and when.
Many questions surround the Los Angeles Lakers after the team missed out on re-signing center Dwight Howard. No larger question than if the Lakers can reclaim its championship luster.
With the aid of a car jack, burglars attempted to break in to a Carroll Street home sometime Friday night, while the family was fast asleep. Apparently they were scared off before they could get into the home.
The NYPD conducted an Anti-Terrorism training exercise on the block of 770 Wednesday night.
Rabbi Dr. Jacob Immanuel Schochet, a Chabad scholar and academic, and a preeminent defender of traditional Jewish belief, passed away on Shabbat, the 20th of Av 5773, July 27th 2013, following a long illness. He was 77.
New York City commuters can expect to pay more to use public transportation.
Naftali and Mussy (nee Krazniansky) Zakon (Crown Heights)
Zalman and Nechama Dina (nee Schusterman) Baras (Cincinnati, OH)
The search is on for a man who attacked and robbed a 69-year-old African-American woman in Crown Heights on Friday night.
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