A right wing Hungarian legislator’s comments apparently in support of a 130-year-old anti-Semitic blood libel has earned the rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and calls for an official investigation on charges of incitement.
It is with much shock and great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Schtroks, of Morristown, NJ, at the age of 55. Update: The levaya will take place tomorrow, Monday, at 9:30 AM at Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Boro Park, and will pass by 770 at approximately 10:30 AM.
Heavy rains and snow will soon pound the eastern United States, possibly leading to downed trees, power outages and flight delays as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico moves through the region, meteorologists said on Saturday.
Chabad in Palm Beach Gardens plans to spend about $400,000 to turn an abandoned fire station into a 100-person traditional synagogue and cultural center.
Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Rabbi Eliezer Gurary and a group of Israeli bochurim were on hand to offer Torah and Mitzvos to ‘March of the Living’ participants at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The marchers were offered Tfillin, and many ‘karkaftas’ were discovered among the marchers, all eager to perform this mitzvah for the very first time. Many Israeli police officers joined the march and put on Tfilin, including Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino.
Aharon Alexander Goncharov, the 25-year-old yeshiva student who had been in a coma in an Israeli hospital after he was attacked in Kiev on the second night of Passover, defied all odds and regained consciousness last week.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The incident in which a Jewish man was savagely beaten on Sterling Street in Crown Heights is being considered by detectives as a possible hate crime, according to sources close to the investigation. Chilling surveillance footage reveals the moments leading up to the assault.
Avraham and Toba Leah (nee Altein) Kabacznik (Belem, Brazil)
Mendel Banon (3) arrived with his parents and little sister Mussia to spend Pesach in Crown Heights. It did not take him long to become an expert at New York City driving.
Moshe Gorin and Chana Goranson
L’chaim will be Sunday at F.R.E.E.
1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.] at 8:30 PM.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipsker, OBM, of Kfar Chabad, Israel, after a prolonged illness. R’ Dov was the beloved owner of Kfar Chabad’s largest grocery store, and throughout his life he was much dedicated to providing the Kfar’s residents with quality kosher food.
A pedestrian crossing Empire Blvd. on the corner of Kingston Ave. was struck by a vehicle this morning. The victim was an African-American female in her late 20s. A city ambulance took to her to Kings County Hospital for treatment.
Meir and Chanie (nee Landa) Lax (Crown Heights)
Valley Chabad’s Friendship Circle Sports League Basketball ended in March with a grand awards ceremony, led by Sgt. John Burns and Officer James Foley of the Woodcliff Lake Police Department.
Ari Nemes (Crown Heights) and Tamar Muss (Flatbush)
By next week, the Bloomberg administration will likely give the go-ahead for a private company named PayLock to place new-age tire boots on any car whose owner has accumulated $350 or more of unpaid tickets.
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