About 50 million people lost power Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New England and Canada.
Police officers around the country have been able to drastically reduce complaints against them by wearing tiny body cameras, but a federal judge’s plan to force some New York officers to start wearing the devices has angered the city’s mayor and police unions.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, August 15 for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Excited children attending Gan Menachem Day Camp were spotted traveling up Kingston Ave. on double decker tour buses, on their way to a sightseeing trip of New York City.
Crown Heights resident Mendy Seldowitz captured a 2-minute tour of the vicinity of 770 with his pair of futuristic ‘Google Glass’ spectacles.
David and Tovah Steinberg (Montreal, Canada)
As the average person’s attention continues to thin together with our ever-slimmer smart phones, engaging teens and adults in today’s fast forward world is becoming increasingly more difficult. And once great crowd pleasers like the songs ‘Oseh Shalom’ and ‘David Melech Yisroel’ – have become somewhat outdated, leaving many Shluchim baffled with the task of producing interactive High Holiday minyanim for their largest crowds of the year.
Russian and Israeli police plan to offer self-defense training courses to Russian rabbis after one was attacked late last month in Dagestan, a spokesman for the Russian Jewish Congress said Tuesday.
Former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson snagged two key endorsements in his quest for the Democratic nomination for Brooklyn district attorney. Thomson is seeking to unseat embattled incumbent Charles Hynes, who is facing his fist serious challenge since he was elected to office 24 years ago.
The New Republic ran a feature story about the lives of inmates in one of Russia’s harshest prisons, founded in the late 1930s as part of the infamous Gulag system. In a couple of photos, Lubavitcher bochurim can be seen putting on tefilin and sharing a few words with several Jewish prisoners.
It started off as a dream for Rabbi Mendy Deitsch 15 years ago, inched closer to reality five years later after a property transaction in Chandler, with a goal of opening shortly thereafter.
The much-watched court case challenging New York City’s regulation of bris milah has entered a new phase of litigation known as Discovery. This process, through which both sides request documents from the other, depositions of witnesses and other evidence relevant to the case, precedes the actual trial.
Campers and counselors at Camp Gan Israel-Montreal enjoyed an exciting and fun paintball shooting trip. The state-of-the-art grounds boasted a life-sized mock city and camouflage uniforms, enabling the players to mimic real-life urban battle.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday shows Public Advocate Bill de Blasio leading the crowded field of Democratic candidates for mayor with 30% of the vote.
A new Chabad synagogue in the mold of 770 Eastern Parkway is being built in the Givah B neighborhood of Beitar Ilit, Israel.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Shlomo Kantrowitz, OBM, of New Haven, CT.
Happy young Shluchim at Camp Gan Israel in Sweden (AKA Tzeirei Hashluchim-Europe) pose in front of a beautiful Scandinavian waterfall during a learning class ‘runaway.’
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