Crime prevention officers from the 71st Precinct are warning about an increase in fraud and identity related crimes. The precinct prepared an informative page on ATM ‘skimming’ and how to avoid becoming a victim.
Photos from the Lechaim of Shmaya Krinsky (Crown Heights) and Rivkah Stosgofsky (Kiryat Gat, Israel) which took place Sunday at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
With 3 – 6 cruise ships docking at the ports in Old San Juan daily, thousands of people pass through its busy streets, many of whom are Jewish. With sightseeing and shopping in the historic city, the Jewish visitors now have a new stop, Kosher in Paradise!
Police identified Julio Acevedo, 44, as the suspected driver of the BMW that plowed into the two expectant Brooklyn parents, Nachman and Raizel Glauber, killing them both early Sunday. The couple, both 21, were in the back of a cab on their way to a hospital after 7-months-pregnant Raizel experienced pains.
Meet Richard Bernstein, Richard ran 17 Marathons and completed the Ironman Triathlon, note: Richard was born blind. This past Thursday 150 Friendship Circle volunteers gathered at the Jewish Childrens Museum for an evening of inspiration and fun.
Shmuel Silcove (Melbourne, Australia) and Yehudit Fainzilber (Costa Rica)
Tzivos Hashem, in partnership with Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch Publications, has released a new, illustrated children’s Haggadah, which incorporates insights by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, culled from his classic Pesach Haggadah.
Twelve years and one week ago was the Yohrtzeit of Yosef Chaim Paley, just a few weeks shy of his Bar Mitzvah. His mother, Mrs. Leah Paley penned a powerful letter following a week filled with tragedy capped [hopefully forever] with the horrific news of the tragedy in Williamsburg on Motzai Shabbos. In her letter she pleads ‘cant we all just get along?’
Berel Pewzner (Harrisburg, PA) and Rikal Block (S. Antonio, TX).
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Camp Gan Israel, Parksville NY is happy to report that the Bar Mitzvah Division has been a great success. And it just keeps on getting better with the announcement of this years head staff.
Recently, the Chabad House of Greater Boston celebrated the dedication of a new Sefer Torah, written in memory of Moshe Shimon Brown, a member of the Chabad Boston Community and a dedicated friend of the Chabad House. The new Torah was sponsored by his family.
A proposal by Russian President Vladimir Putin for solving a bitter, decades-long legal battle over the late Lubavitcher Rebbe’s library, long held in Moscow, has pitted Russia’s Chabad-Lubavitch community against its U.S. brethren.
Yossi (ben Moshe – Little Peoples) Klein (Crown Heights) and Mushky Kaminezki (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Mendel Gurevitch (Lyon, France) and Chana Lurie (Montreal, Canada)
A project 10 years in the making opened up this Sunday. The brand new Chabad House, for UVa students and the Charlottesville community, opened with the Shluchim celebrating their three year old sons upshernish.
Hope turned to deeper mourning today after a baby delivered by C-section following a horrific hit-and-run crash in Williamsburg died one day after his parents.
A song about a girl, who is being influenced negatively but does not yield – since she is the daughter of a king, the daughter of g-d, came to life today in a video shoot. The song is called Beautiful by Shneur ‘Describe’ Hasofer.
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