After donning tefillin with a colorful collection of Jews he met throughout his two week travels, Benjamin Kogos, a Staten Island, New York native and public school attendee, seems to be starting his own mivtzoim route. On Sunday, he reported on the CTeen X-Treme’s group Facebook page that he had just gotten two Jews to put on tefillin.
Dov Lipinski (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Rivkah Greene (Tarzana, CA)
Only one week and two days after he was shot and critically wounded in an anti-Semitic attack near his home in Derbent, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Ovadia Isakov was released Sunday from Beilinson Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, Israel. He offered his thanks today to the many people who acted on his behalf and prayed for his recovery.
Today, 29 Av, marks the first Yahrtzeit of Reb Yechezkel Halevi Lewintow, OBM.
On Monday, NCFJE Young Leadership Committee held Ping-Pong for Charity event in Manhattan, NY. Over 150 young professionals from around greater New York joined together over cocktails and a buffet to square off against each other and professional Ping-Pong players.
Drivers on one of Brooklyn’s busiest arteries can expect to see more congestion as the Department of Transportation has painted over another lane on Eastern Parkway.
A middle-aged Caucasian woman was arrested for shoplifting this morning, after leaving the ‘Totally Her’ women’s clothing store with a bag filled with unpaid-for items.
Last week an anonymous group of Chabad Rabonim published a letter urging fellow Chasidim not to purchase Seforim from Oz Vehadar due to their systemic exclusion of Chabad sources in their Gemaras and other publications.
Parents and friends from all over the northeast made the trek up to the Quebec mountains to visit the children in Camp Gan Israel of Montreal.
They come from all over Israel and from vastly different lifestyles. Yet, they all have one thing in common – all have had their lives devastated by acts of terror and violence – all share in a unique sisterhood of understanding and empathy.
Parents and friends made the trek up to the Catskill mountains for a fun-filled visiting day at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
Writing for the Times of Israel, David Brent, a NASA engineer, explains why he loves Chabad, despite his disagreement with Orthodox Judaism on so many issues:
Tzvi and Shayna Margo (Crown Heights)
Levi and Rochel (nee Block) Teldon (San Antonio, TX)
With virtually no fanfare, about a dozen cross country bicyclists rode into the parking lot of Investors Bank headquarters in Short Hill, New Jersey at about 2:40 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 2.
The Kingston Avenue Shabbos siren went off again today, causing much bewilderment among residents of Crown Heights who are accustomed to hearing it only on the eve of Shabbos or Yom Tov.
Oscar (Ossie) Schechtman, an original member of the New York Knicks, scored the legendary first National Basketball League (called the Basketball Association of America at the time) basket on November 1, 1946 at the old Maple Leafs Garden in Toronto against the short-lived Toronto Huskies.
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