This week the city launched its Bike Share program amid praise and criticism. One story highlighted the ‘black hole’ where not a single bike rack was installed in the Hassidic section of Williamsburg, Crown Heights though, will not be the same.
SAN ANTONIO, TX — For most of his life, Texas builder Dan Markson didn’t really know who his grandfather was. “He had a whole wall of Hebrew books, and he would study them all the time. When I was a child, it would happen every once in a while that small groups of young men with beards would come to the door—he would invite them in—and they would sit together, sometimes the entire night. But I had no idea what it all meant.”
This past Pesach, Benny Friedman began the first part of a major world tour. A film crew followed Benny through 8 amazing shows in various locations.
A Jewish woman was mugged yesterday and thanks to a quick call to 911 the two thieves were apprehended two blocks away, and were arrested. The woman’s phone was recovered and returned to her.
FAR ROCKAWAY, NY — A Jewish man was viciously beaten by a gang of 4 thugs in Far Rockaway Sunday evening. The man had stepped outside to take a phone call and surveillance video captured the entire incident.
NOVATO, CA — More than 70 people attended The Chabad Jewish Center of Novato’s one year anniversary on Monday May 20 at the Novato Oaks Inn.
Zalmy and Sara Leah Kirschenbaum (Melbourne, Australia)
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Shlach – titled “Welcome to Hotel Canaan”.
Tuesday evening the Friendship Circle of Crown Heights hosted an evening for the mothers of children with special needs. The evening featured entertainment by a ventriloquist, an auction all complimented by a lavish desserts buffet, complete with fresh fruit and a juice bar.
Chaim and Devorah Leah (nee Horowitz) Pil (Crown Heights)
Levi Liberow (Flatbush, NY) and Raizel Feldman (Sydney, Australia)
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — The Sooner State has long had a vibrant — if numerically tiny — Jewish population, but until just a few years ago most Oklahomans rarely saw an Orthodox Jew at community events.
The sudden and unexpected passing of Rabbi Eliezer Lipman “Lipa” Dubrawsky this spring at the age of 56 affected all who knew him, but mostly his constituents in Vancouver, Canada, where he served as a scholar and director of adult […]
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