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Monsey Cheder Welcomes New Preschool Director

Cheder Chabad of Monsey has welcomed a new Preschool director, Mrs. Yona Lazarus. Mrs. Lazarus comes with almost 30 years of teaching experience, six of which she served as a director of her respective department, including extensive experience in teaching, educational administration, teacher training and community leadership.

Picture of the Day: Can You Spot the Anomaly?

This scene on East New York near the corner of Kingston Ave. has one Crown Heights resident furious. Can you figure out why?

Answer: The resident was upset that his neighbors deliberately park in such a fashion as to deny others a space to park – just so that they can pull out of their parking spot with greater ease.

Jewish Groups Get 97% of Federal Security Funds

Jewish Week

Chabad houses, yeshivas, organizational headquarters and even a mikveh in the New York area are among the beneficiaries of $9.7 million in funds allocated by the Department of Homeland Security for Jewish organizations and facilities considered vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

Prisoner Admits Was Voice Behind Chabad Attack

In this Friday, June 29, 2012 photo, Delhi police officers escort Syed Zabiuddin Ansari, face covered, out from a government hospital after a medical check up in New Delhi, India.

The voice had long haunted Indian police investigating Mumbai’s deadly 2008 terrorist attack. They had repeatedly listened to a tape of cell phone intercepts containing chilling words from one of the men guiding 10 terrorists through the gun-blazing rampage that killed 166 people in India’s financial capital. “Pass this message to the media—`This is just the trailer; the real film is yet to come,’” the voice said.

Sending Special Help Westward

Rabbi and Mrs. Shlomo and Aliza Menkes with Dr. Daniel Shabani.

Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe, Merkos Suite 302’s organization that assists shluchim families who have children with special needs, inaugurated its newly formed West Coast chapter with its very first local event on the night of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.