Over 20 Shluchim from the greater Washington D.C. region gathered for a one-day seminar at Chabad of NOVA with Rabbi Manis Friedman. The seminar focused on learning, discussing, and growing in their understanding of Chassidus and their connection to the Rebbe’s teachings.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Baruch Izik Hakohen Torenheim OBM, a longtime Crown Heights resident.
Police commissioner Raymond Kelly was awarded the Ari Halberstam Memorial Award Wednesday evening at the Jewish Childrens Museum’s 8th annual award dinner.
Surveillance video from Sterling Electronics captured the theft of an umbrella, and how a woman passing by alerted the store owner to the theft.
Shmuel Levi (ben Eliezer) Yarmush (Crown Heights) and Mushkie (bas Uri) Niasoff (Crown Heights)
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, May 9 for holiday observances. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
A young cyclist crossing Albany was hurt after he was struck by a van that was making a turn.
Dozens of properties in Crown Heights are currently in delinquency after not paying their property taxes. Jacob Goldstein, chairman of Community Board 9 sent out a letter urging homeowner to take care of the liens before the city auctions them off in the next few weeks.
Nosson (ben Y.Y.) Hendel (Migdal Ha’emek, Israel) and Hadassah Pewzner (Geneva, Switzerland)
A 16-year-old high school kid was arrested after he was caught stealing an umbrella from a Kingston Avenue store. A group of angry shopkeepers apprehended the thug and with the help of Shomrim he was arrested.
Hundreds gathered in front of 770 this afternoon to participate in the Levaya of Shlucha, Rebbetzin Hindy Scheiman OBM who passed away yesterday after lengthy battle with an illness.
As a Chabad emissary in Shanghai, Rabbi Abraham Greenberg has abundant experience putting tefillin on other people. But even Greenberg was surprised when Avner Netanyahu, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s youngest son, approached him during his father’s tour of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum and asked if he had a pair of tefillin on Tuesday.
Tonight the Jewish Children’s Museums will be hosting their 8th annual dinner. At the event police commissioner Raymond Kelley will be honored.
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Midwood, Brooklyn, Lipa Lieberman noticed early on that his most successful neighbors owned real estate.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mr. Moshe (ben Zalman OBM) Lokshin OBM of Los Angeles, California. He was 88 years old.
Chaim Dray (Paris, France) and Sheina Mergui (Paris, France)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at 1568 Carroll St.
[between Troy and Schenectady Avenues]
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