25-year-old Martin Thomas was shot and killed in Crown Heights last night. The shooting took place on St. Johns Place near Schenectady Ave. shortly after 7:30pm. Another victim, a 24-year-old man, was shot in the right leg.
On Tuesday, August 7th, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society will hold their 10th annual Crown Heights/Flatbush barbecue, at 937 E. 22nd St. near Avenue I in Flatbush, at 7:00pm.
At Albany’s communal Siyum, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin introduced futuristic Halachic research on Digital communications, suggesting that Digital fluidity may be the ideal medium to expand and broadcast Oral Torah.
Hishy and Miriam (nee Lokshin) Fischer (Crown Heights)
Keren Simchas Chosson V’kallah has founded a Young Leadership committee, which will focus on getting young people more involved in funding and organizing KSCVK’s activities. The new committee gathered for the very first time last night on the roof of 866 Eastern Parkway, where they engaged in a roundtable discussion and shared ideas about how to grow the organization, while enjoying a barbecue with a panoramic view of New York City’s skyline.
Syed Zabiuddin Ansari (alias Abu Jundal), a suspected key handler of the 26/11 attacks, now claims that he was only in charge of instructing the team of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists who made their way into Chabad House, popularly known as Nariman House, in Colaba market.
Campers and counselors gathered in the dining hall at Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY to bid farewell to those leaving at the conclusion of the first month of summer vacation.
Shmuly and Devorah Leah (nee Sarfati) Simon (Manchester, UK)
Rabbi Bentzion Butman got a royal welcome earlier this month when Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni invited the director of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Phnom Penh to a ceremony in celebration of the Asian country’s version of Arbor Day.
After moving between several temporary locations in Westport in recent years, the Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch of Westport appears to have found a home that is just right.
Last weekend, the founding conference of the Forum for Young Rabbis in Europe ended. The Forum was established by the Rabbinical Centre of Europe following the request of the chief rabbis of cities and communities in Europe to form a group of young rabbis who will share experiences and will receive help in cultivating leadership and skills within the rabbinate.
Eliyahu Jayson (San Francisco, CA) and Lena Chava Rhodes (Daytona Beach, FL)
The Jewish community of Hamburg, Germany marked a festive occassion with the arrival of new Shluchim Rabbi and Mrs. Shmuel Havlin and their two young sons. They will be in charge of the activities of the Chabad House and kehilla after the city’s Shliach Rabbi Yissochor Shlomo Bistritzky was appointed Chief Rabbi of the city.
An organization founded in 2009 to provide financial support and specialized programming for Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries raising children with special needs inaugurated its West Coast chapter with an event at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles.
More than 50 Jewish women along with 70 children participated in a unique summer camp in Zhitomir, Western Ukraine. The attendees were needy single parents and their children from 24 remote villages in the region.
Peg Perego recalled hundreds of thousands of strollers Tuesday because children can become trapped and strangled between trays on them. One death has already been reported.
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