Yeshiva Graduates Among Israel’s Best Soldiers

Left: Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks with one of this year’s 120 best soldiers. Right: Engineering Corps Lt. Yitzchak Shitrit of the Israel Defense Force is one of the recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence.

Two members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Israel were among the 120 soldiers who received this year’s Presidential Award for Excellence during a nationally-televised ceremony Thursday morning in Jerusalem.

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Op-Ed: Who Will Talk to Your Kids About That Topic?

by Tzipporah Clapman

In today’s day and age we live with lots of easy access to explicit information. Magazine covers are displayed all over the supermarkets, showing every type of immoral act. The internet is infested with immorality and depravity. With all these environmental hazards, do you think this has no effect on your child? In today’s world it is almost impossible to shield our children from all this shmutz. Putting a paper bag over their heads just won’t work.

Community Celebrates Life of Beloved Rabbi

Examiner

“Will Rogers never met a man he didn’t like. I never a met a man who didn’t like Rabbi Dovid Bryn,” said David Leone, a prominent South Florida educator, as he busily prepared to honor his spiritual mentor on the occasion of Rabbi Bryn’s tenth yohrzeit (anniversary of his passing).

Cape Town Celebrates Life, Teachings of Rambam

Though it’s almost two months since the completion of the 30th cycle of the Daily Rambam – the teachings of Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon commonly known as Maimonides, the global celebrations of this momentous occasion still aren’t over.

Vandals Smash Windows of Beis Rivka School Bus

Some time last night, the windows to this Beis Rivka School bus were smashed. The bus is kept in the Crown St. parking lot which is protected by razor tipped fence and and locked gates. The only way to get into the parking lot is through the school itself, so it’s likely that the vandals were some rowdy children from the community who were attending an event in the school hall.

Op-Ed: Is Our Congresswoman a Communist?

by Naftali Cohen

Yvette Clarke meets with Rabbis Sperlin and Slavin of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council.

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who has been representing New York’s 11th district – which includes Crown Heights – for the past 8 years, seems to have some communist sympathies.

Video: NYPD and Shomrim Take Down a Criminal

Last Monday, at around 5:00 PM, a drunk driver hit two parked cars on Ocean Parkway; he then exited his vehicle and tried to flee. Flatbush Shomrim were on the scene and chased him down, but were unable to to hold on to him. Eventually, the Police arrived and together the man was tackled and placed under arrest.

Jewish Man Rescues Latino Woman from Mugging

Illustration

A Jewish man walking down Albany Avenue today witnesses the attempted mugging of a Hispanic woman by an African-American man near the corner of Crown Street. While the woman held steadfastly to her possessions, he ran over to help, causing the perpetrator to flee.