New Engagement!
Moty Kamhaji (Caracas, Venezuela) and Esther Poliwoda (Caracas, Venezuela)
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Airlines to Begin Charging for Window, Aisle Seats
If you’re flying this summer, be prepared to kiss your family goodbye at the gate. Even if they’re on the same plane.
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Hundreds Gather to Mark Shloshim of Rabbi Schtorks
Two hundred fifty men and women gathered Tuesday evening in Morristown, NJ to mark the shloshim of R’ Avraham Yeshaye Shtrocks, of blessed memory.
Many visitors to blogs and news websites enjoy the liberty to post comments online without revealing their identity, but if a proposed bill in the New York State Assembly is passed, that common practice may become illegal.
Bill Introduced to Ban Anonymous Online Commenting
Many visitors to blogs and news websites enjoy the liberty to post comments online without revealing their identity, but if a proposed bill in the New York State Assembly is passed, that common practice may become illegal.
I have been getting many texts and emails asking me to weigh in on the latest New York Times article entitled, ‘Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own,' regarding the reports of horrific abuse cases that have gone ignored or have been swept under the rug by religious leaders in the Orthodox Jewish community.
Op-Ed: Breaking the Silence
I have been getting many texts and emails asking me to weigh in on the latest New York Times article entitled, ‘Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own,’ regarding the reports of horrific abuse cases that have gone ignored or have been swept under the rug by religious leaders in the Orthodox Jewish community.
5,000 Children Join Together for Virtual Rally
From South Africa to Melbourne and from London to Crown Heights, over 5,000 children from 48 Chabad schools and hundreds of Yaldei Hashluchim of MyShliach worldwide tuned in today for a special Tzivos Hashem Rally in preparation for Shavous.
ULY-OP Tours French and Mexican Warships
Students of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway participated in Fleet Week’s Tallship OP-Sail. Students in grades 3-8 got exclusive tours of the French Etoile and Belle Poule and Mexican Cuauhtemoc – all military training vessels.
A Run on Chocolate Chips at Trader Joe’s
Looking in her cupboard last week, Shulamis Labkowski got a morsel of unwelcome news. The mother of three from Oakland, Calif., inspected three bags of Trader Joe’s semisweet chocolate chips, a staple in her kosher kitchen. They were alike in all ways but one: Two of them had a small D on the label, meaning they were classified as dairy under Jewish dietary laws.
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CHYE Announces New Mentorship Program
This week members of the advisory committee for Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs (CHYE) gathered to discuss the launch of a new mentorship program.
Baby Boy!
Yechiel and Chana Devorah (nee Perl) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 7 Balfour Place, Apt. F5
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of the Rebbe standing by the Torah over the years.
At a private event for Shuvu held in Flatbush last night, noted speaker Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, spiritual leader of Congregation Beis Shmuel Chabad in Crown Heights and dean of TheYeshiva.net, spoke passionately about the importance of valuing each and every Jew, no matter what their affiliation or their current state of religiosity.
Video: Chazon Ish Did Not Give Up on At-Risk Student
At a private event for Shuvu held in Flatbush last night, noted speaker Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, spiritual leader of Congregation Beis Shmuel Chabad in Crown Heights and dean of TheYeshiva.net, spoke passionately about the importance of valuing each and every Jew, no matter what their affiliation or their current state of religiosity.
Man Confesses to 1979 Killing of Jewish Child
A man in police custody has confessed to strangling Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons, the New York Times is reporting.
Mesivta Students Tested in Borough Park
In the days leading up to Shavuos, the Bochurim of the Oholei Torah Mesivta traveled to Borough Park for a farher from Rabbi Yitzchok Raitport, a loyal friend and supporter of Oholei Torah.
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Friendship Circle Takes a Stand Against Bullying
Some 200 students gathered recently at the Berman Theater inside of the Jewish Community Center of West Bloomfield, MI for the “Upstander Unite” event.
