770 Communications Room Gets New Floor, Purpose
Crown Heights icon Rabbi Chaim Baruch Halberstam has moved from his Shlichus in WLCC to a new shlichus; this time it is in the room where he started off.
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“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.
Leiby’s Butcher Pleads Guilty
NY Post
“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.
Photos: Thousands Get Sneak Preview of New Album
Thousands attended a concert earlier this week at ‘The Sultan’s Pool’ in Jerusalem featuring Hasidic superstar Avraham Fried, who mesmerized the crowd with songs from his new album, as well as a medley of Chabad nigunim.
Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.
Op-Ed: Top 10 Non-Jews Influencing the Jewish Future
Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.
A Lexus SUV and a Dodge minivan collided on the corner of Kingston Ave. and Carroll St. at around 5:30pm today. The accident occurred after one of the drivers took a red light, but it is unclear which.
Vehicles Collide on Kingston and Carroll
A Lexus SUV and a Dodge minivan collided on the corner of Kingston Ave. and Carroll St. at around 5:30pm today. The accident occurred after one of the drivers took a red light, but it is unclear which.
Benny Friedman, the puppets from Mitzvah Boulevard and several other Jewish artists talk about their upcoming releases.
Video: What’s Next in the World of Jewish Music?
Benny Friedman, the puppets from Mitzvah Boulevard and several other Jewish artists talk about their upcoming releases.
The members of the Crown Heights Beis Din visited Mikvah Mei Chaya Mushka, as Rabbi Yirmi Katz and Elozar Raichik poured the concrete for the main basin. According to Rabbi Katz, the Mikvah will be one of the Most Mehudar Mikvahs in the United States.
Rabbonim Pour Concrete for New Women’s Mikvah
The members of the Crown Heights Beis Din visited Mikvah Mei Chaya Mushka, as Rabbi Yirmi Katz and Elozar Raichik poured the concrete for the main basin. According to Rabbi Katz, the Mikvah will be one of the Most Mehudar Mikvahs in the United States.
Terminator of Helen Thomas’ Career Speaks at Chabad
Florida Jewish Journal
Rabbi David Nesenoff recently spoke at Chabad House of Miami Beach and the Chabad Lubavitch’s National Retreat in Weston, Florida about spirituality, media bias and the aftermath of the Helen Thomas incident.
New Engagement!
Mendel Lazar (Lancaster, CA) and Naomi Hahn (Morristown, NJ)
Queens Chronicle
Congregation Ohel Chabad Lubavitch has filed a request with the city to place a charter bus stop near the cemetery in Cambria Heights where the Orthodox sect’s beloved leader is interred. The goal is to more easily accommodate the hundreds of pilgrims who visit the site each day and the thousands who stop by on special religious occasions.
Ohel Requests Permission to Build Bus Stop
Queens Chronicle
Congregation Ohel Chabad Lubavitch has filed a request with the city to place a charter bus stop near the cemetery in Cambria Heights where the Orthodox sect’s beloved leader is interred. The goal is to more easily accommodate the hundreds of pilgrims who visit the site each day and the thousands who stop by on special religious occasions.
Final Decision: El-Al to Honor All Tickets Sold!
The decision is in.
El Al Israel Airlines will honor all of the cheap plane tickets it never meant to sell. Additionally, they are offering all these passengers the option of flying non-stop for an additional fee of $75.
Residents Thrilled for Chabad of Oro Valley’s Arrival
Arizona Daily Star
Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman launched Chabad of Oro Valley last month. A warm welcome has greeted the Zimmerman clan – wife Mushkie and daughters Devora, left, and Chana.
Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman has had hardly a moment’s rest since his recent move to Oro Valley. Zimmerman, 26, started receiving phone calls almost immediately after coming to town with his wife Mushkie and two daughters, Devora and Chana, to set up Chabad of Oro Valley – a branch of the international Jewish outreach organization that already had three locations in the Tucson area.
Newspaper Publishes Hateful Diatribe Against Chabad
A letter overflowing with hate and venom against the Chabad community was published by the Riverdale Press yesterday. Written by Patty Goldstein, the letter questioned the decision of a local councilman to give a $5,000 grant to a Chabad Center. The writer objects to this grant because Chabad is “a vile, racist, Jewish supremacist organization.”
Holocaust Museum for Orthodox to Open in Brooklyn
NY Daily News
The Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center to focus on Orthodox Jewish community.
A designer of the National September 11th Memorial & Museum is gathering chilling historical artifacts for Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum.
Montreal Anash Farbreng for Chof Av
Members of Anash farbrenged in honor of the Rebbe’s father’s Yahrtzeit, the 20th of Av, in the central Chabad Shul in Montreal. The farbrengen lasted until the wee hours of the morning.
Photos: CGI NY Visits 770 for Chof Av
Marking Chof Av, Camp Gan Israel of Parksville, NY made the two hour trip from upstate New York back to the city to visit the Rebbe’s Ohel and daven Mincha in 770.
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