Mental health has long been a prevalent issue in the college community, and following a memorial service at Northwestern University for a student who took her own life, it was felt that it was time to present it from a Jewish perspective.
Thanks possibly to the freezing temperatures outside, NYC has gone 9 days without a murder—but that streak is long over. In one incident police are investigating the death of a woman who was found half-naked in the street in Crown Heights early Friday morning.
A violent parolee who killed a beloved Brooklyn liquor-store clerk was sentenced to 35 years in prison today.
Ari and Mushki Mochkin (Los Angeles, CA)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rochel (Rochel Leah) Krichevsky of Eretz Yisroel, on Yud Shvat.
Yosef Vinisky (Crown Heights) and Esther Miriam Hall (Albany, NY)
Over the last few days tens of vehicles have been broken into and robbed, items like GPSs and loose change were taken. Crown Heights Shomrim received a report from one burglary victim stating that he confronted the thief and he identified him as Terrence Nelson – one of the areas most notorious recidivists.
Avromie and Chana Leah Margolis (Los Angeles CA)
Mendy Wolff (Crown Heights) and Devorah Breindel (London, England)
Michoel Kisilevich (Melbourne, Australia) and Naomi Popper (Coral Springs, FL)
When there’s trouble on the tracks, transit workers turn to police, firefighters, paramedics — and The Rabbi. There’s no need for his full name. Anyone who has operated a train, welded rails or directed traffic from a radio tower in the last three decades probably knows Rabbi Harry Berkowitz.
Hundrends of woman and girls turned out all afternoon, and into the late Sunday evening, for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction. The program took place in Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway, where there was the viewing, entertainment and lots of food and drink. The auction benefits the organization which helps Chassanim and Kallahs pay for their wedding day.
Chabad Terror Victims Project welcomed Rabbi Zalman and Channie Wolowic along with members of their community who were on a Chabad of the Five Towns Israel Mission to Israel and who came to volunteer their time to help CTVP pack thousands of Mishloach Manot gifts for victims of terror and IDF soldiers and their families throughout Israel.
It is with profound sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chana Tornek OBM.
Last Sunday night as part of the hachonos for Yud Shvat, The Beis Midrash L’Shluchim of Merkos Suite 302 organized a unique farbrengen for the Rebbe’s shluchim who were visiting New York in honor of this day.
Florida Shlucha Mrs. Nechamie Minkowitz launched the Jewish Women’s Happiness Exchange inspires Woman to have better relationships.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, devastation was everywhere. Roads were closed and power lines brought down by trees uprooted by the storm. While driving his children to school each morning in Morristown, N.J., Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzchok Moully says he would look at the fallen trees, hoping that “some industrious craftsman or carpenter would create something beautiful and spiritually meaningful from the destitution.”
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