Camp Mesorah experienced a truly monumental color war breakout, when a Barack Obama look-alike paid a visit to the camp in order to announce the annual summer competition.
The controversy had sparked a national debate, raucous protests in the streets and the collapse of a historic government. That came in the months after the Israeli Supreme Court had nullified a law exempting haredi Orthodox Israelis from military service and given the government until Aug. 1 to draft a replacement law.
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“Chef position available,” the advertisement read. Mendel, having just come out of Kollel, looks at the sign, grabs the strip of paper off the bottom and arranges an interview.
Chasidic singing sensation Lipa Schmeltzer surprised Kfar Chabad’s residents with an appearance at the Beis Menachem Shul before Mincha, along with dancers and a filming crew.
Police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with an assault on a woman in Crown Heights Sunday afternoon.
Five hundred Jews, many wearing armbands with the Star of David, marched on Rostov-on-Don yesterday, August 12, in remembrance of the Zmievskaya Balka massacre. The men, women and youth followed the same route that the Jews of Rostov in southern Russia were forced by the Nazis to march on August 11-12 in 1942 where 27,000 people, among them also Soviet citizens, were murdered at a ravine on the edge of the city.
Mendel Lazar (Crown Heights) and Naomi Hahn (Morristown, NJ)
L’chaim will be tonight, Monday at 642 Empire Blvd.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.] at 9:00pm.
Binyomin and Sarah Rivkah Nemon (Crown Heights)
In an effort dubbed “Synagogue Impossible,” a group of community members has launched a grass-roots campaign to renovate the Rohr Chabad House at Arizona State University in three weeks.
A kosher ice cream truck war in Sullivan County, NY has resulted in two arrests. Update: CrownHeights.info has obtained a video of the incident.
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City Comptroller John C. Liu today called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reform NYPD policy to allow Orthodox Jewish and Sikh officers to serve without having to forsake their beards (and/or turbans).
Two student rabbis have been visiting San Antonio Jewish homes this past week, inspecting their mezuzahs — a ritual item posted on doorways — and offering to upgrade them for free.
Yishai Shields (Lansing, MI) and Sarah Chana Lapine (Crown Heights)
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