The Jewish community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania had their own Lag Ba’omer Parade and Bonfire, arranged by Yeshiva Beis Menachem in conjunction with Cheder Menachem, the local day school, and Cong. Ohev Tzedek.
Ron David Hershcopf (Windsor, CT) and Minna Chava Caplan (Crown Heights)
Yaakov and Chaya (nee Kotlarsky) Wilansky (Crown Heights)
The Conservative government overruled federal bureaucrats and gave $1-million to a social hall project submitted by an Ottawa rabbi with close ties to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
Hidden in this brief clip from a show on the Canadian City TV Channel is something that most Lubavitchers – and perhaps New Yorkers – would consider a familiar sight. Can you spot it?
Lag Ba’omer was celebrated for the very first time in northern Tasmania, an island south of Australia, in a town called Jackey’s Marsh.
Google Inc. has cleared a major road block in its quest to introduce self-driving cars to the roads of the world.
For the first time since the municipal government replaced a memorial to the World War II slaughter of 27,000 local Jews with a separate installation that mentioned neither Jews nor the Holocaust, Jewish community officials in Rostov-on-Don joined Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Barada in persuading regional Gov. Vassily Golubov to erect a more ethnically-sensitive plaque.
In a report on child abuse in the Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish community – and the harassment and shunning those who bring the abuse to light are often subjected to – the New York Times singled out Crown Heights as a place where more significant change has been achieved compared to other communities.
Shloimy Dalfin (Crown Heights) and Mussie Rosenblum (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be Sunday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
A group of preschoolers at Shaloh House Preschool & Kindergarten welcomed the spring season this year with the help of Mr. Mal Jacobs. The children learned how to properly care for the peach tree in the school’s backyard.
Over a thousand children gathered in front of 770 for a rally marking Lag Ba’omer. Children from the schools in Crown Heights, as well as the surrounding neighborhoods, enjoyed music and nosh, gave Tzedakkah and recited the twelve pesukim. The rally concluded with a special show with children’s favorite uncle, Uncle Moishy.
Recognizing the negative effect it has on the crime rate, police have been actively cracking down of the practice of ‘Playing hooky,’ by local teens who belong in High School. One such delinquent, who was loitering around 770 during the children’s parade this morning, was picked up and taken back to school by the police.
Students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France, celebrated Lag Ba’omer with the traditional bonfire, accompanied by singing and dancing – and a ‘Kumzitz.’ The following morning, the students organized a grand Lag Ba’omer parade for Jewish children throughout Paris.
This morning at around 9:00, Sholom Meir Hecht was walking near his home on Union St. between Kingston and Albany Ave., when he was accosted by three African-American teenagers who demanded – and received – his cell phone.
Pictures from the Lag Ba’omer children’s parade, which took place in Kiryat Gat, Israel.
A Jewish man riding a bicycle was run over this morning by a “dollar cab” which ran a red light. The driver then fled the scene of the accident.
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