Recently the 8th Day performed at the new Gourmet Glatt supermarket in Boro Park, there one vlogger caught up with drummer Rosy Rosenquist, who shared a story of how an oil change lead to him taking a job with the popular band.
Over the past week there has been an outpouring of support from all over the world, for 9 year old Matthew Harms who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Chaim Dovid and Rivky (nee Wachtel) Jenkelowitz (Crown Heights)
Sroli Matusof (Madison, WI) and Raizy Laine (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Shaya Gansbourg, 57, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Harlem and the driving force behind that area’s Jewish revival, was remembered as a dynamic, energetic leader who believed that he could do what many saw as impossible: Gather every Jew in Harlem and bring them under the roof of Judaism.
Nachmen and Raizy Glauber, a young Jewish Orthodox couple from Williamsburg, en route to a hospital to have their first child were killed in a car crash early Sunday, but their child survived.
Zevi and Adina (nee Druin) Slavin (Toronto, Ontario)
Yossi and Rivkie (nee Kudan) Dubroff (Crown Heights)
A man was arrested for trying to lure a 10-year-old girl into his car in Brooklyn, cops said today.
It is six years that Shimshon and Martha Stock are no longer with us. Reb Shimshon Stock known affectionately to all, as Shimshon Stock or Shimshon, was not just an ordinary individual but served as the address and an institution, to whom many individuals and families turned in their search for a shidduch, advice and guidance on sholom bayis and other life issues, or financial help.
A moving song – Using the Hachona Niggun – heard to the backdrop of pictures of young Avrohom Dovid who was taken from us before his ninth birthday. Prepared for his Bar Mitzvah, with a Prayer that he join us once again.
New York City councilman James E. Davis, may he rest in peace, founded the non-profit organization, Love Yourself, Stop the Violence, dedicated to halting inner city gun crime and drug abuse. His brother, Geoffrey Davis, retells the original inspiration behind his brother’s life work.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Schochet will lead a discussion on the topic the Kabbalah of Economics.
Chazzan Yitzchak Meir Helfgot along with violinist Itzhak Perlman headlined a historic concert in the Cushman Wakefield Theater at the new Brooklyn Barclays Stadium with thousands in attendance.
Earlier this week a group of 8 or 9 thugs vandalized two of Beis Rivkas school buses, and were captured on surveillance video celebrating. Yesterday an alert Shomrim volunteer spotted them vandalizing cars and with the help of the police they were apprehended. Turns out they are all around 13 years old.
