A potentially huge weather event could hit the Tri-State Area as early as Sunday night. The storm system is forecast to linger in the area through Tuesday and could bring with it severe winds, rains and storm surges.
A newly-adopted NY City Health Code amendment that subjects bris milah to government regulation has galvanized New York’s religious community to take the extraordinary step of challenging the law’s constitutionality in federal court.
Avraham Meir (Maychee) Sherr (Crown Heights) and Shaindee Cadaner (Crown Heights)
This week hundreds of boys in grades 5-8 from all the schools in Crown Heights gathered for an extra hour of learning, from 7:00 to 8:00pm. The Yeshivas Erev program will continue throughout the year, and boys who attend on a daily basis will receive wonderful rewards and prizes.
The High Point Furniture Market is the largest home furnishings industry trade show in the world. But until recently, there were no programs or services addressing the needs of Jewish visitors among the convention’s 80,000 participants.
After over 50 years of not having their own professional sports team to root for – ever since the Dodgers left in 1958 – residents of Brooklyn were overjoyed this year to welcome the Nets as the borough’s very own Basketball team. It is now being reported that the Islanders have decided to relocate from Nassau County to Brooklyn in 2015.
When I heard that the rabbi of a Chabad house on a university campus was in trouble for providing alcohol to students, I assumed that I didn’t need to hear any further details to understand what the story was.
Woody Allen, along with a swarm of Paparazzi, was spotted this morning in Crown Heights. The comedian is acting in a film by producer John Turturro, who chose the President Street home of Eli Wuench as the setting for one of the scenes.
A Brooklyn judge today formally dismissed charges against a man whose beating by police was caught on tape.
For the second time in under two weeks, vandals slashed the tires of several parked cars in Crown Heights last night, this time upping their tally to 15.
As the sun was setting over the horizon, the soft, golden rays were shining onto the Tennessee stone at the entrance to Nashville’s Mikvah Mei Chaya.
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As students settle into another school year, it is an opportune time to reflect on an inconvenient truth: Too many children struggle to read Hebrew.
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From time to time, various neighborhoods are featured in The Jewish Week. This week they covered New York’s Upper East Side, with the lead section profiling Chabad in the area, led by Rabbi Ben Tzion and Chanie Krasniasnki.
This past week I had the privilege of accompanying my Mother to Washington, D.C for the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership meeting, where I had the opportunity to hear such speakers as Congressman Artur Davis, Senator George Allen, Fox News Channel contributor Michael Barone, several analysts in US defense policies, foreign and Middle Eastern affairs and RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
Avi Minkowitz (Toronto, Canada) and Leah New (Crown Heights)
Danny Tarkanian is the Republican candidate for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District. This week he traveled to Florida for a fundraising trip, and while he was there he met with the president of the Orthodox Alliance of Florida, Rabbi Y. Kaploun, in his Miami Beach home. Before the candidate left, Rabbi Kaploun gave him a copy of ‘In G-d We Trust,’ a book of the Lubavitcher Rabbe’s teachings on American values.
The Brooklyn District Attorney said he dropped the charges against a homeless man arrested after a beating from police officers because there was “no case” against him.
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