Baby Boy!
Yisroel and Chanie (nee Benjaminson) Altein (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Adam and Clara Chaya (nee Ulitsky) Epstein (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
83-Year-Old ‘Bar Mitzvah Boy’ Gets a Cake
In a follow up to the story we published last week – of an 83-year-old man who put on Tefilin for the first time, Rabbi Moshe Klein returned to the old-age home this week with a decorated cake, which he presented to the ‘Bar Mitzvah boy.’
Report: Anti-Semitic Incidents Up Across New York
Anti-Semitic incidents jumped 27-percent in New York last year, according to a new report.
Jews in Sports: Israeli Team Forfeits Game Rather than Play on Shabbos
As the International Maccabiah Games are well underway in Israel, there is one Holy Land team that participated in its own version of the Olympics far from home, and performed on a level every Jew should be proud of.
Video: CGI Parksville Second Month Sneak Peek
As the first month of summer wraps up, the staff at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY give a sneak peek at what’s in store for the second month of camp.
Remembering Don Sami
With the passing of Mr. Shmuel (“Sami”) Rohr one year ago, the Jewish people lost one of its most extraordinary sons.
Cyclists Visit Oklahoma City on Cross-Country Tour
A group of cyclists from around the country recently visited Oklahoma City to raise awareness of an international organization that connects people through friendship.
As Re-election Fight Looms, Brooklyn DA Releases Partial List of Child Abusers
Despite much criticism from victims and activists, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has for years steadfastly refused to publish a list he keeps of hundreds of accused pedophiles in the Brooklyn Jewish community. Now facing viable opponents in his re-election bid for the first time in years, Hynes relented – somewhat – and released the names of a few dozen convicted abusers.
Four Injured in Drive-By Shooting
Three men and a woman, all African-American, were hit in an apparent drive-by shooting in Crown Heights just before 10:00pm last night (Sunday).
Videos: Behind the Lyrics
How does the Chassidic Rebbe, Reb Zusha of Anipoli, inspire non-Jewish record engineers to give it all they got? What do today’s youth have in common with the Cantonist degree in the times of Tsarist Russia? What song is going to be sung when Moshiach comes?
Roving Rabbis Reach Out to South Texas Jews
The squeaking of the tortilla machine inside Anita’s Tortilleria on East Jefferson Street pierced the air Thursday as hot corn tortillas rolled off the line during the tail end of the lunch rush.
Heavy Rains Damage Miami Chabad House
Mother Nature’s wrath over the past two days has left heavy damage at a South Florida synagogue.
Baby Girl!
Shloimy and Chany (nee Greenwald) Rappoport (Crown Heights)
Tu B’Av: What Did the Beautiful Ones Say?
On the 15th of Av young men and women would meet in the vineyards of Jerusalem for the purpose of finding their soul-mate. The beautiful girls among them would declare that a young man aught set his eyes to beauty alone. The Talmud does not censure them, even mildly. But surely, as Scripture states, “Charm is false and beauty has no substance”?!
B’klyn Food Stamps Funds trans-Atlantic Food Shipments
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
