This photo was posted yesterday on Reddit, a user-generated social media website. It depicts an African-American man sleeping on the shoulder of an Orthodox Jewish man on the New York City subway. The photographer accompanied the photo with the following caption:
Many in Israel and around the world, who were following the Bat Mitzvah trip of singer Paula Abdul to Israel last week, were wondering why she made a last minute unexpected cancelation of her reported plan to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah by the Kotel in Jerusalem.
While their fathers attended the grand Kinus Hashluchim banquet in Brooklyn’s Marine Terminal, hundreds of junior Shluchim gathered in the Beis Rivkah ballroom for a grand banquet of their own.
The parents of child abuse whistleblower Manny Waks are leaving Australia, saying they have been bullied, intimidated and virtually ”excommunicated” from the community.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, November 5 for Election Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Guests, city leaders, officials with the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce and members of Chabad of Camarillo, California cut the ribbon to officially open the expanded facilities of Saving Lives. Started by Chabad of Camarillo, Saving Lives is a community-based coalition with a mission to reduce drug and alcohol abuse by youths throughout Ventura County.
Channeling the awesome energy from the Banquet, Shluchim and their lay leaders made their way back to 770 and sat down for the – what has become – traditional Farbrengen.
From the the opening greetings to the guest speech and keynote address, CrownHeights.info presents a video recap of the inspiring and emotional speeches made at the Kinus Hashluchim Banquet Sunday night.
Michoel and Mishi Harari (Crown Heights)
In an enormous shipping terminal-turned-ballroom at the mouth of the east river in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, over five thousand people sat down to an evening of elevation, inspiration and tribute – the annual International Conference of Chabad Emissaries.
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