On a Sunday evening in early June, thousands of Hasidic men in long coats and black hats braved the heat to attend two outdoor anti-Internet asifas (or gatherings in Yiddish) organized by leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar community of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, N.Y. Women were forbidden, but the real temptation for the men was already in their laps, where they covertly thumbed their smartphones.
The heat wave continued across the Tri-State Area on Wednesday and forecasters said it will continue for at least the rest of the work week.
On Tisha B’av the bochurim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ heard wrenching testimony of the atrocities of the Holocaust from a survivor, who brought along several artifacts to demonstrate in real-life terms how things were in those dark times.
Students at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Nemenov, traveled to the French Alps for three weeks of summer learning in a pristine and relaxing environment.
Mendy and Sara (née Weiser) Alevsk (Cleveland, OH)
Hatzolah stepped up to the plate yesterday when it responded to a desperation call involving the collapse of a female staffer at a morning event in Williamsburg hosted by NYC Council speaker, and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn.
Shmuly (ben Levi) Borenstein (Crown Heights) and Mushky Nagar (Crown Heights)
Rachel Silverman’s summer goal is to get her family to the shore as early as she can on Friday mornings. Silverman, a resident of Philadelphia who has a summer home in Margate, said it’s not the beach they’re rushing to. It’s a weekly challah-baking workshop.
The old Shul of Kfar Chabad is torn down to enable construction of the main Shul – Beis Menachem – in 1973.
Another two tragedies in which an infant was forgotten in a vehicle in Eretz Yisrael R”L — ending in tragedy.
Last week, we reported the devastating robbery of a Crown Heights home, located on President Street between Kingston and Albany, while the family was vacationing upstate.
After completing the ‘Seuda Hamafsekes,’ Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY gathered Monday night to read Megilas Eicha and mourn the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh.
Photographer Itzik Roitman aimed his lens at congregants mourning the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh in 770 Monday night, the eve of Tisha B’av.
There are good ideas, and then there are award-winning ones. Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, co-director of Chabad of Uptown in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Chanie, can claim the latter.
In this hat store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Orthodox Jews and the most discerning twenty-something hipsters both buy some of the best headgear in New York City.
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