Photos: From Days Gone By
The old Shul of Kfar Chabad is torn down to enable construction of the main Shul – Beis Menachem – in 1973.
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Israel: Two Infants Dead After Being Left in Vehicles
Another two tragedies in which an infant was forgotten in a vehicle in Eretz Yisrael R”L — ending in tragedy.
Crown Heights Home Burglar Caught on Video
Last week, we reported the devastating robbery of a Crown Heights home, located on President Street between Kingston and Albany, while the family was vacationing upstate.
Photos: Mourning the Beis Hamikdosh at CGI Parksville
After completing the ‘Seuda Hamafsekes,’ Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY gathered Monday night to read Megilas Eicha and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh.
Photos: “Over These Do I Weep”
Photographer Itzik Roitman aimed his lens at congregants mourning the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh in 770 Monday night, the eve of Tisha B’av.
Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff with shofar and makeshift sign, in an award-winning photo that the Jewish Herald Voice featured on its glossy-cover High Holiday magazine.
Sign of the Times: Rabbi Photo a Winner
There are good ideas, and then there are award-winning ones. Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, co-director of Chabad of Uptown in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Chanie, can claim the latter.
Video: Hippest Hats in NYC
In this hat store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Orthodox Jews and the most discerning twenty-something hipsters both buy some of the best headgear in New York City.
BRUSSLES, Belgium -- The 4-year-old son of a European Shliach is in critical condition and fighting for his life after a hit and run crash. The public is requested to please say Tehillim for Hillel ben Sara.
Update: Boruch Hashem the family has reported that Hillel has woken up and is responding well. The doctors have listed his condition as stable.
Shliach’s Son Critically Injured in Hit-and-Run Crash [Update: Condition Stable]
BRUSSLES, Belgium — The 4-year-old son of a European Shliach is in critical condition and fighting for his life after a hit and run crash. The public is requested to please say Tehillim for Hillel ben Sara.
Update: Boruch Hashem the family has reported that Hillel has woken up and is responding well. The doctors have listed his condition as stable.
Left: Parliament of Poland (Sejm). Right: EJA Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
EJA Mobilizes Against Polish Ban on Shchita
Following last Friday’s decision made by the Polish Parliament (Sejm) essentially banning all Kosher butchering from taking place in the country, General Director of the European Jewish Association (EJA), Rabbi Menachem Margolin has conducted a series of intensive talks with polish leaders and representatives in the E.U Parliament.
NYPD Arrests Protesters at Rally Against Zimmerman
At least a dozen people have been arrested on disorderly charges during a New York City rally protesting the acquittal of George Zimmerman.
AP
This Wednesday: Shloshim in Memory of Mrs. Sarah Behrman, OBM
Last month, the Crown Heights community lost a visionary educator and advocate for the less fortunate. Mrs. Sarah Behrman, a long time resident of the community, passed away on Monday, June 17, after a lengthy illness. She was 69.
by Mordechai Lightstone
Yeshivah Reports Savings Expected with Solar Power
The Lubavitch Yeshivah International School for Chabad Leadership of Oak Park, which opened nearly a year ago, was built with the latest technology in solar-electric power. The state-of-the-art 45,000 square-foot is outfitted with a turnkey 48.5 KW Photovoltaic System was installed and plans for interconnecting to the DTE grid meter is scheduled for the near future.
Oakland Press
Photo: Bentzi Sasson
Video: The Gift of Tears
Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau describes the first Americans to enter Buchenwald and the small boy they encountered. His experiences are heart wrenching and makes one wonder, what would I have done to prevent the Holocaust?
EU: Registration for Bar/Bas Mitzvah Trip to Israel Begins
The Morosha organization is pleased to announce to all Shluchim in the European Union that enrollment in the annual Bar/Bas Mitzvah trip to Eretz Yisroel has begun.
Laws and Customs: The Fast of Tisha Ba’av
The Badatz of Crown Heights has released a comprehensive review of the Halachos of Tisha B’av for the benefit of the community.
Rabbi Berel Lazar
Chief Rabbi of Russia Walks 19 Miles to Keep Shabbos
Last week Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar was faced with a dilemma: he needed to be at an important ceremony with President Vladimir Putin, but it was scheduled for Friday.
Arutz 7
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Avi and Chanee Shlomo (Atlanta, GA)
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