An IDF soldier was killed and 15 other people were injured, one seriously, in a road accident between an Egged bus and a truck on Route 6 on Wednesday. The critically injured rider is an IDF ‘Lone Soldier’ from a Lubavitch family in Crown Heights.
This morning, CBS Miami reported on “a possible new development” in the case of missing millionaire Guma Aguiar, who disappeared on his boat in June leaving behind a wife, 4 kids and a $100 million dollar fortune. The earth-shattering news – brought to the press’ attention by Guma’s wife, Jaime – was that Guma’s sister moved to the Netherlands.
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Poland that shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals, was “illegal.”
Ezra and Sara (nee Junik) Hecht (Crown Heights)
One tradition of Judaism gets a fanciful update every year by the Chabad Jewish Center in Needham, Massachusetts, with its Hanukkah menorah-lighting ceremony on the downtown common. Each time, the menorah changes: Last year, it glowed a luminous blue-green, and past versions have been made from Legos, ice, and balloons.
Chabad of S.E. Morris County in Madison, NJ delivered more than 400 Thanksgiving dinners. The meals were delivered by volunteers to homebound seniors in Morris County on Thanksgiving morning.
Levi Yitzchok and Goldie (nee Duchman) Azimov (South Brunswick, NJ)
As a developer, he constructed more than 5,000 acres of residential, commercial and industrial buildings in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. But earlier this month, Larry Robbins was celebrated for his philanthropy.
Hungarian Jews have asked Russia to return scrolls and valuable religious items looted by Nazis and the Red Army in World War Two and their claim has been backed by the Budapest government.
A typewritten letter signed by Rebbetzin Nechama Dina (wife of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe) and her two sons-in-law – the Rashag (Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary) and the Ramash (later to become the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe) – has gone up for sale at the Virtual Judaica auction site, with an estimated value placed between $3-5,000.
Students of Lamplighters Yeshiva in Crown Heights fill their school’s drop box for the annual Friendship Circles Toy Drive.
The first official Balaboostas.com event, “After the Kallah Class”, took place Thursday evening in the Crown Heights community. It was a lecture on intimacy by psychotherapist, Rivka Sidorsky, LCSW-C. The crowd of 70 women listened on intently, as she spoke about issues and topics that concern married Jewish women.
Levi Friedman (Mill Basin, NY) and Malka Hershkowitz (Ofakim, Israel)
Chabad Chosid Rabbi Shmuel Scharf, who was seriously injured in Nachlat Har Chabad by a rocket launched from Gaza, was released from the hospital on Monday, 12 Kislev. His wife, Mrs. Mira Sharf, HYD, was among three victims of that attack who lost their lives.
Jewish singing sensation Benny Friedman talks about the experience of recording Kumzing Vol. 2.
Hungary’s Jewish community initiated a criminal procedure against a Hungarian far-right politician in that country who recently urged the government to compile a list of Jews who pose a “national security risk.”
R’ Yerachmiel Glazer is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Sheina Leah, OBM, at 510 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Apt. 2A
Shachris: 7:00 AM
Mincha: 1:45 PM
Maariv: 7:00 PM
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
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