Several weeks ago, I was introduced to Rabbi Ari Weiss, the executive director of Uri L’tzedek, the organization that launched the now-controversial Tav Hayosher “ethical seal” for restaurants. Rabbi Weiss met with me to discuss the background of the Tav Hayosher seal, hear my perspectives on the matter, and possibly form some sort of allegiance with me, given my experience representing food service workers throughout the country.
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Chabad.org’s talented Dovid Taub brings a new perspective to a verse this this week’s Parsha.
Avraham Meir Cohen (Crown Heights) and Miriam Bracha Garelick (Passaic, NJ)
An accident on the New York State Throughway this morning was captured by one of our readers returning from spending Shabbos in the Catskills. The accident, involving a motorcycle, required emergency ‘Medevac’ helicopter evacuation of the victim and caused a heavy backup of traffic on the northbound lane of the highway in Orange County, NY.
Police arrested three Palestinians for allegedly poisoning a family in Ra’anana for nationalistic reasons, it was revealed Sunday after the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court lifted a media blackout on the case.
Can many of the problems faced by students in today’s Yeshivos be solved by allowing them to have more autonomy over what subjects they learn and when they attend Seder? In the following op-ed, author Dovber Schwartz explores such possibilities. He explains that we are teaching Bochurim to learn, but not how to learn, and suggests an entirely new approach to Yeshiva education.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Due to the annual West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day in Crown Heights there will be a slew of driving and parking regulation changes.
Friday mornings are a busy time at Chabad’s Krafts for Kids Workshop in Margate, NJ. Each Friday at 9:45am, long lines begin forming on the sidewalk of Ventnor Avenue as children and their families get ready to participate in one of the Jersey Shore’s well sough after traditions, baking challah with Chabad.
A frightening, but boruch Hashem non-serious, accident occurred this afternoon in the heart of Crown Heights during the hectic hours of Shabbos shopping. A flat-bed truck driving up Kingston Ave. made a left turn onto Crown St., without noticing that a vehicle was being crushed on his left side as he did so.
Wednesday was another eventful day at the RNC, and the lineup of speakers was nearly mind numbing.
A shipment of a brand new reprint of all the Alter Rebbe’s Maamarim, In honor of the 200th anniversary of the Alter Rebbe’s passing, is packed and loaded onto a container in Israel.
“Your newspaper recently began to include chasidic teachings. If you are now providing the laymen with regular doses of chasidus, perhaps it’s also time to provide the yeshivah students with regular study sessions in chasidus. Many important innovations have been introduced in our generation, for when new ‘illnesses’ arise, new ‘medicines’ must be administered.” 4 Adar II, 5741 (1981).
Hundreds of supporters – most of whom were backpackers themselves at one time or another – gathered at the Diamond Theater in Ramat Gan, Israel, to pay tribute to the Kathmandu Chabad House that has provided a home away from home for the thousands of Jewish travelers who annually make their way through the Himalayan Mountains.
Zalman and Chani (nee Klein) Schapiro
1582 Carroll St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Schneur Zalman and Mushkie (nee Bronstein) Borenstein
37 Balfour Place
Nechemia and Rivky Tenenbaum
Rabbi Shain’s Shul, 390 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.]
Zalman and Chani (nee Klein) Schapiro
1582 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Shloimy and Tzirel (nee Weiss) Baitch
884 East New York Ave. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.]
Levi and Estee (nee Ettelson) Capland
Chevra Ahavas Yisroel, 1349 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
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A Bolivian court denied bail Thursday morning to Jacob Ostreicher, a Borough Park, Brooklyn resident who has been incarcerated without formal charges for more than a year. The bail hearing lasted nine grueling hours and was spread over two days while Jacob’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, sat through the entire process in the Bolivian courtroom along with her daughter, Jacob’s sister, both weeping uncontrollably.
Nechemia and Rivky Tenenbaum (Crown Heights)
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