Just a modest Pesach pilot program for 80 shluchim last year, CKids, now a year-round ready-to-go kids program with 300 shluchim members, is celebrating its first anniversary of lifting shluchim’s burden of preparing children’s programs—for every Shabbos and yom tov of the year.
Moshe and Chana Esther (nee Brennan) Lewis (Crown Heights)
Today’s expected nor’easter will not be the heavy storm originally forecast, as the city will see only a light coating of wet snow this morning — and it will all melt by the afternoon.
Park Slope has not been home to a kosher restaurant, well, ever. That changed when owners of a popular authentic French Bistro decided to make a change. Along with a new name, a French chef and Kosher certification, Chagall reopened earlier this week.
Chabad Of Western Monmouth County held a lecture on understanding the differences between how Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews celebrate Pesach.
The man wanted for the hit-and-run that killed a young Brooklyn couple was taken into custody by authorities in Pennsylvania, the NYPD said.
During the fall semester hundreds of students converged on Crown Heights for the Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton. Now, during the spring semester, Chabad Houses on campus, in conjunction with Chabad on Campus International Foundation, have been hosting regional Shabbatons across North America as part of the Chabad on Campus Intercollegiate Series.
A routine call alerting Shomrim to a suspicions person turned into a full blown chase with a police lieutenant and sergeant getting injured. The suspect, who had broken into a car and stole a radio, managed to get away by hopping over fences and garages.
It’s Music Month again at Bnos Chomesh and the students are loving it! You would too, if every day that you came to school there were special musical surprises for an entire month.
After selling hundreds of tickets to members of Crown Heights for the Helfgot / Perlman Chazanus Concert at the Barclays Center, Mesivta Chovevei Torah is now selling tickets to the Ringling Brothers Circus also at the Barclays Center this Chol Hamoed Pesach.
Meir (ben Zalman) Fellig (Miami, FL) and Chaya (bas Mendy) Korf (Miami, FL)
Uri Bublil (Israel) and Rivki Kopfstein (London, England)
Mendy and Cheyenna (nee Borenstein) Hershkop (Crown Heights)
Almost 2,000 people participated in the first Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk in 2009. Last October, 7,966 people participated in the annual walk. The Strand between the Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach piers was so jammed, concerns were raised about where to hold the walk if it continues to grow in coming years.
Photos from the Lechaim of Yossi Klein (Crown Heights) and Mushky Kaminezki (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) which took place Monday in the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Photos from the Lechaim of Berel Pewzner (Harrisburg, PA) and Rikal Block (S. Antonio, TX) which took place Monday in the Chovevei Torah ballroom.
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