Health officials have reported 30 cases of the Victorian-era scourge — with 26 in Borough Park and another four in the Hasidic quarter of Williamsburg.
Yaakov Frankforter (Montreal, Canada) and Esther Kadoch (Montreal, Canada)
An explosion near the Chabad House in Katmandu, Nepal turned out to be an airplane crash. Earlier reports of a fire in a hotel were incorrect. 21 people were injured in the accident, where a small airplane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip.
Mordy and Sammy Greenstein (Crown Heights)
In the 1950s, when I was a young man, I befriended Rabbi Moses Rosen, who was the chief rabbi of Romania. Whenever he came to New York, he prayed in my shul, which was the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, and when we discovered that we both spoke French, it brought us together. We became good friends, our wives became friends, and it was a great friendship for friendship’s sake, as the saying goes.
A celebration marking students’ memorizing 118,547 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and more, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the Cheder Menachem of Los Angeles dedicated by the Menlo family.
For 18 years an anti-Semitic livery driver has been doing time for shooting up a van full of Yeshiva students on the Brooklyn Bridge — and killing Ari Halberstam. Now cops have nabbed his “Palestinian uncle.”
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo of The Rebbe receiving and Aliya.
David Adler has a family and runs a business, but on Tuesday night, he’ll be up late for a different reason—learning Torah.
Sruly and Dvorah Leah (nee Lieblich) Salek (Crown Heights)
On Shavuos night the Besht will be hosting three speakers at a new temporary location.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday and Thursday, May 15-16 for Shavuot. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
More than 300 people gathered on Sunday, May 12th 2013 in S. Antonio, Texas to dedicate the new Chabad Center for Jewish Life & Learning and pay tribute to the remarkable accomplishments of the S. Antonio branch of the worldwide […]
Elchonon and Pnina (nee Abush) Komar (Sydney Australi)
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released an instructional guide – in both English and Hebrew – which contains Halachos and Minhagim pertaining to the Yom Tov of Shavuos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming holiday.
The number “547” flashes across the display. “It’s finally my turn,” you say to yourself, having waited over three hours just to register your new car at the DMV. But as you get up to approach the window, it dawns on you that “547” are the first three digits of your cellphone number.
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