Hundreds of people gathered this past Sunday to pay tribute to South Florida Shliach, Rabbi Dovid Bryn, as they launched the writing of a new Sefer Torah in honor of his 10th Yohrtzeit in Highland Lakes.
Police say a woman riding a mobility scooter has been fatally struck by a car in Brooklyn. The accident happened at around 1:00am on Wednesday at Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue.
Four teenage girls, all new immigrants from the Caribbean, arrive at a high school in the heart of what was the epicenter of the Crown Heights riots 20 years ago. As newcomers they know nothing of the long history of tension between the Black and Lubavitch Jewish communities in the neighborhood. They set out to try to educate themselves about a culture so different from their own, in the midst of stereotypes and misinformation about Jewish people.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Ari Abramowitz (Monsey, NY) and Rochel Shira Horowitz (Crown Heights), which took place Tuesday, May 1st at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Rabbi Duber Junik, fondly referred to by Anash as Reb Berel, was born in Parluki, Russia in 1927 on the 6th of Menachem Av to Horav Naftoli and Mrs. Golda Ita Junik, descendents of the holy Rabbonim, Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berditshev, Reb Pinchos of Koritz and Reb Menachem Nochum of Chernobel. Under the influence of the Rav of the city, HoRav Hillel Solozuvski, Reb Naftoli became acquainted with Chabad Chassidus. Reb Naftoli was a Yireh Shomayim and did not send his children to government schools but brought them up with mesiras nefesh in an underground cheder.
The Namanow family is sitting Shiva after the passing of Reb Moshe , OBM, at 418 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Shachris: 9:30
Mincha: 7:30
Maariv: 8:30
Visiting Times: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. 5:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
The one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death has police in New York City on high alert.
Eli Levitansky (New Haven, CT) and Henna Lederman (Postville, IA)
The Tel Aviv District Court today dismissed a NIS 2.5 billion lawsuit filed by Bertie Sinbeti against Lev Leviev, Leviev Group Project Management, and senior company officers for allegedly stealing a gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Sinbeti.
Hannah Rosenthal, Barack Obama‘s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, has travelled to Malmö, Sweden, for a closed-doors meeting with the city’s mayor who has been accused of fomenting hatred of Jews.
Older people in neighborhoods just south of Bronx Park say they hear gunfire outside their windows nearly every night. They are targets for muggers and scammers as well.
A group of Lubavitchers went this morning to be Menachem Avel the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after the passing of his father, Professor Ben Tzion Netanyahu, OBM. The PM warmly thanked the visitors personally, and asked that they convey his thanks to all Chabaniks for sending their individual Nichumim.
NEW JERSEY — Around 45 people listened to the inspiring story of a Holocaust survivor, who, as a teenager, participated in a successful mass escape from the Nazi death camp Sobibór. The Chabad Jewish Center–Upper Passaic County invited Philip Bialowitz to tell his story of survival at the Wanaque Golden Age Club.
I’ve known my good friend and former neighbor on the Lower East Side of New York Baruch Herzfeld for many years. I’ve learned to respect his perception of what’s in and what’s out, and so this morning when I went to mine the web and found his comment on Facebook on the upcoming “Antinet” – the mass gathering of Orthodox Jews at Citi Field for the purpose of banning the Internet – I decided to a.) take it seriously, and, b.) share it with you.
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