A group of Israeli bicyclists called “Bike for the Fight” is bicycling across the United States to raise money and awareness for cancer research. On Sunday, they made a stop at the Syracuse, NY Chabad House to spread their message.
Nissi Eber (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Raskin (Montreal, Canada)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
Dovid Leib Halon (Crown Heights) and Sara Grossman (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Ari (ben R’ Yossie) Roitblat (Crown Heights) and Chaye Freida Liberow (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Mendy Singer (Manchester, UK) and Chaya Mochkin (Rochester, NY)
380 New York Ave. [between Carroll and Crown Sts.] at 8:30pm
It is cliché to rebrand a label into a more politically savvy digestible form. But please indulge me in the opportunity to identify one ill-articulated phrase: “Kids at Risk.” A child who is rebellious does not merit that slanderous label.
Daniel Wolk, his wife and three children moved from Israel to the New York State Capital District one month ago, and he said events like Sunday’s Saratoga Shalom Festival in Congress Park make the transition a bit easier.
Michael Medved, a popular radio host, author and political commentator, answers what it would be if there was one thing in the world he could change.
Rabbi Chaim Shaul Glitzenstien and his wife Chaya Mushka (nee Sosonkin) along with their baby girl have moved on Shlichus to Szeged, which is the third largest city in Hungary.
The unique partnership that joined together Bramson ORT College with Chabad, has announced the relaunch of its JTVS (Jewish Technical Vocational School) program. JTVS allows young men to earn smicha in the morning while studying towards a GED and associates degree in the afternoon.
Members of the Lerman family and Congregation Beis Levi Yitzchok got together Sunday afternoon for a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah. The new Torah was dedicated in memory of Mrs. Menucha Lerman OBM.
Rabbi Aaron Slonim, Shliach at Binghamton University, delivered the invocation welcoming President Barack Obama to Binghamton University. The visit was part of the presidents two-day bus tour of upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania, where he spoke about college tuition as part of a conversation on the affordability of higher education.
Just an hour before the first pitch of the game in which the New York Mets faced off against the Detroit Tigers Rabbi Mendy Heber, of Chabad of Brookville, seized the opportunity to blow the Shofar right behind home plate.
The synagogue for the Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont was built in the 1920s. It operated beginning Memorial Day, all through the summer months and until Labor Day, when Jews from New England and New York visited the area around Long Island Sound, affectionately known as “Bagel Beach.”
Simcha and Yehudis (nee Katz) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Moshe Yitzchak and Chana (nee Mergui) Lieblich (Wilmington, NC)
A police officer in Crown Heights shot a 17-year-old who was allegedly attempting to steal a gun from a van under guard Saturday morning, according to the NYPD.
Rabbi Mordechai Richler has been in South Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, for about a week, but he is already making headway on the area’s newest Jewish cultural organization.
