Former New York City mayor Ed Koch who died Friday morning at the age of 88 said in 2008 he has engraved on his tombstone the final statement of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. How befitting that now they share the same date as their Yohrtzeit.
Lubavitch Scotland was definitely on the ball yesterday morning. For Glasgow Celtic’s Israeli footballer Rami Gershon popped in to the city’s Shul in the Park for morning prayers following an invitation from Rabbi Mendel Jacobs.
Former Mayor Ed Koch passed away early this morning, he was 88. Koch had been in and out of the hospital in recent months, and was admitted Monday at New York Presbyterian Medical Center.
Thursday Morning the Kinus Hashluchos began with an opening session at the Oholei Torah ballroom welcoming all the Shluchos.
Yisro: We all encounter moments of inspiration that contain the potential to transform our entire perspective; moments of mystical exposure that can lift us above the mundane fray of our daily routine. But instead of stopping to observe, we just keep moving, oblivious to the presence of heavenly splendor and grace.
Jason Henry, 21, was gunned down by one of two men involved in an argument on Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights. The gunman was still at large as of Thursday afternoon.
Chabad Shluchim to Caracas, Venzuela Rabbi Yosef and Goldie Slavin – who have been publishing a weekly Dvar Torah video for the past five years, marked the Bar Mitzvah of their son Dov with a special tribute in the Tu B’shvat Video.
Motti Wilansky (Crown Heights) and Chani (bas Levi) Baumgarten (Crown Heights)
Project TEAM took center stage in preschools around New Jersey and will be available for the first time at the Kinus HaShluchos to be licensed nationally. Project TEAM, short for Torah Approach to Emotional Awareness and Middos, is a project of Tzivos Hashem.
A thief who had been stealing mail from mailboxes was arrested late Tuesday night after an alert resident spotted him stealing mail from a building on Brooklyn Avenue and called the police.
Students in Beis Rivka who participated in the Box Tops program were rewarded after thousands were turned in which netted the school hundreds of dollars. The girls received award certificates and ices as a reward.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Yisro, titled ‘Why You Even Exist!’. In this weeks video he gives a special nod to the Kinus Hashluchos. Technical difficulties prevent this […]
Yisrael Bennish (Oak Park, MI) and Shulamis Greenspan (S. Paul, MN)
In honor of Parash Yisro, the Parasha in which the Jews received the ten commandments from G-d, the young girls in Beis Rivkah’s head start got a hands-on learning experience about Shabbos, and what goes into preparing for it.
Yaakov and Esty (nee Goodman) Bruck (Manchester, England)
Dovid (ben Sn”z) Liberow (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas Dovid Sheraga) Polter (Oak Park, MI)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
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