Remembering Don Sami
With the passing of Mr. Shmuel (“Sami”) Rohr one year ago, the Jewish people lost one of its most extraordinary sons.
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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle
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.
The Oklahoman
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes
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).
WABC NY
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?
Rabbi Mendel Konikov and Rabbi Chaim Landa help Avraham Schwarcz as he reads the Shema prayer on a smartphone in a hot corner of Anita’s Tortilleria.
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.
Brownsville Herald
Rabbi Zev Katz points out rain damage at his Chabad House in Miami Beach.
Heavy Rains Damage Miami Chabad House
Mother Nature’s wrath over the past two days has left heavy damage at a South Florida synagogue.
WSVN Miami
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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”?!
BIN OVER THEIR HEADS: Pioneer Supermarket in Brooklyn sells plastic barrels that customers use to ship food to family members in the Caribbean.
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.
NY Post
Living Torah: President Shazar Visits the Rebbe
On his first presidential visit to the United States, President Zalman Shazar of Israel visits the Rebbe. 13 Av, 5726 — July 30, 1966.
Friday ‘Mivtzoim-Goers’ Thanked
Each Friday afternoon, students of the Rabbinical College of Australia (YG-Melbourne) and Mesivtah take part in Mivtzoim, and this past Sunday, the eve of the 15th of Av – 21 July, over 50 people regularly visited on Mivtzoim gathered to thank their Friday volunteers.
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Kushi and Fraida Malka (new Yarmush) Schusterman (Bel Air, MD)
Baby Girl!
Shloimie and Shternie (nee Zirkind) Litzman (Monsey, NY)
New Engagement!
Mendel Mangel (Cincinnati, OH) and Mushka Rubashkin (Crown Heights)
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