A Blood Drive will take place today, July 10 (20 Tammuz) from 3:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Ahavas Chesed, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and St. Johns Pl.]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification. One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
Yossi Stern (London, UK) and Chaya Hershkop (Crown Heights)
935 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Yossi (ben R’ Avrohom Yitzchok, OBM) Silverstein (Crown Heights) and Peshy Weissman (South Africa / Baltimore, MD)
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Thousands have signed an online petition, hosted on the Jewish Press website, against a ban on ritual circumcision dictated by a German court in Cologne.
Another important date for jailed kosher meatpacking CEO Sholom Rubashkin looms July 25, when the U.S. government is scheduled to file a brief that will likely ask the Supreme Court not to hear Rubashkin’s case.
The girls of camp Emunah’s Junior division were split up into two teams for color war: Team Eretz Yisroel (blue) and team Chutz La’aretz (red), representing the two different approaches to bringing Moshiach.
This may be one of the reasons why Facebook was created. Rabbi Dovid Zaklikowski has created a beautiful Facebook page/group, where Lubavitch Archives features many never-before-seen vintage pictures of happenings in the Lubavitcher community and within Chabad’s activities.
Campers at Gan Israel of Detroit, Michigan enjoy their first week of learning and fun.
Yossi Stern (London, UK) and Chaya Hershkop (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at 935 Eastern Parkway
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
As the equal share of the burden movement continues to demonstrate in favor of universal military or national service for all Israeli citizens, Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox insist that Torah study helps the nation no less than the army, and were it not for prayer, the country would be in parlous state. The haredim recently noticed that their claims are backed up by a rather unexpected source.
In Williamsburg, a bustling Brooklyn enclave across the East River from Manhattan, a sect of ultra-Orthodox Jews dresses in garb common to 18th- and 19th-century Europe and adheres to even more-ancient religious traditions. Yet they are wrestling with the most modern of questions: When it comes to genetic testing, how much does a person need to know?
Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev undergraduate students have developed a new privacy solution for Facebook. The ‘Social Privacy Protector’ can help parents adjust their children’s profiles in one click, prevent criminals from garnering valuable personal information and keep teens safe from pedophiles.
At 4:10pm today on the corner of Schenectady Ave. and Union St., a middle aged African-American male with a gun in his hand walked over to another African-American male and shot him seven times at point blank range, killing him instantly.
On Sunday, Daled Tammuz, The Shluchim Office unveiled its latest in service and support to Shluchim visiting Crown Heights: a brand new hotel for visiting shluchim called ‘the Pomegranate Suites.’
The following letter was sent to the Shliach in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yoseph Gerlitzky, from a grateful mother who is a member of Rabbi Gerlitzky’s Chabad House. The letter speaks for itself:
We reported recently that the city is beginning a new program where, instead of towing a car to the pound for accumulated unpaid tickets, they put a ‘boot’ lock on one of the car’s wheels. Once the fines are paid up, the owner gets the code to open the lock.
Dovid Tsapp, the ‘rabbi on a skateboard,’ tells The Australian Jewish News how he found spiritual answers in the practice of skateboarding.
