Ten people were injured, including four Jews, after a ‘dollar van’ slammed into a car that was waiting at a red light on Ocean and Parkside Ave. at the edge of Prospect Park, causing a chain collision involving five vehicles.
80 people – children, parents and grandparents – filled the Lubavitch Centre in Glasgow, Scotland for the annual Hebrew School Graduation, Prize Giving and tea reception.
This summer, New York subway riders might be able to actually get some work done on the train (rather than just beating their high scores in Angry Birds). Beginning Monday, free Wi-Fi will be available at a number of stations courtesy of Google.
Princess Maxima of the Netherlands formally inaugurated a new building at the Jewish museum in the Dutch city of Elburg on Wednesday. Located about 50 miles northeast of Amsterdam, Elburg was once home to more than 100 Jewish residents, who prayed in the synagogue that was converted into the museum four years ago.
The district court of Cologne, Germany ruled this week that religious circumcision of a child is harmful and that a parent’s jurisdiction over his child does not extend to the practice of circumcision.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem today, June 26, 2012. After saying a prayer at the wall as customary, Mr. Putin requested a tour of the temple mount tunnels, which they were promptly given by the Kotel’s rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Kings County is the most Kosher jurisdiction in the nation. A new study has found that nearly one in four Brooklynites are Jews – making the borough home to the most Jews of any county in the country.
Camp Gan Israel of Parksville, NY set off this morning for the first month of summer up in the Catskill Mountains.
A two-car crash in Crown Heights sent seven people to the hospital on Monday afternoon. The crash occurred just after 2:20 p.m. at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Rochester Avenue.
This past Sunday night the entire Sydney community – Shluchim, Rabbonim and Bal Habatim from many synagogues accross Sydney – came together for the 18th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz.
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CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Yeshiva Students with their mentors. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
Whatever preconceived notions one might have about the demeanor or perspectives of an Orthodox rabbi, be prepared to have them completely shattered upon meeting Rabbi Mendy Herson, spiritual leader of Chabad Jewish Center in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards.
Authorities were called after a man, dressed as Elmo, started pestering tourists and spewing anti-Semitic vitriol in Central Park yesterday, leading him to be taken in for mental evaluation.
Troubled missing millionaire Guma Aguiar‘s wife told him she wanted a divorce just hours before he vanished from his fishing boat, the lawyer for Aguiar’s mother told ABCNews.com today.
Yaki Hershkop, a Lubavitcher Askan from Beitar Illit, Israel, invited and accompanied the mayor of Beitar Illit, Meir Rubestein, along with his assistant, Yehudah Deutsch, to the Rebbe’s Ohel on Sunday.
Merely a few hours before the news broke that one of the lone surviving perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre, which claimed the lives of his parents, was apprehended, Moishe Holtzberg visited the Viznitzer Rebbe in Bnei Brak with his grandfather Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg.
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