Drivers and their passengers better make sure they’re buckled up. State police will be running a two-week crackdown on seatbelts starting Monday and running through June 3.
Mordechai and Joelle (nee Cohn) Wilshinsky (Crown Heights)
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I was sipping tea with a South Korean friend of my father’s when he asked: “Do you go to church?” It’s a much more common getting-to-know-you question in Korea than in the north-eastern United States, so I replied: “I actually don’t go to church, I’m Jewish.” When the oohs and ahs from members of the family, who were thrilled to learn I was part of the tribe, had subsided, my father’s friend proclaimed: “I forgot your dad is Jewish! Koreans are the Jews of Asia!”
In spite of discrepancies over the invitation of the Lubavitch community to the Citi Field internet gathering, the Rabbonim of the Crown Heights Beis Din attended and were assigned seats of honor at the dais. Seen in these photographs from Yeshiva World News are Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba (partially obstructed) and Rabbi Shlomo Segal.
Devoting hours of intense study every day to his regular course load, a 19-year-old boy from Toronto has accomplished in the astonishing time of three years what most adults spend their whole lives attempting. But ask Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva student Shaya Zirkind what secret allowed him to learn the entire Talmud and he’s surprisingly down to earth in his answer: go to bed early, wake up refreshed, and take each day at a time.
In a report which aired tonight on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper makes the case that in some cemeteries, graves were desecrated so more plots could be sold, and that the industry in general is lacking oversight. The program shows footage from inside a lake near a Jewish cemetery in Florida, where tombstones were allegedly thrown, when something interesting comes on the screen. It appears at the 8:24 and 8:50 mark; can you figure out what it is?
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Watch a live feed of the gathering of 40,000 Orthodox Jews in the Citi Field stadium, who are there to address the dangers to the Jewish community posed by the internet.
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“Diamond Joe” Gutnick has plenty on his agenda this year. His Merlin diamond deposit in the Northern Territory, held by ASX-listed North Australian Diamonds, is coming close to production. He and his sister are merging their precious gem assets. And he is preparing for the listing of Paradise Phosphate on the ASX, a project near Mount Isa in north-west Queensland.
Even before Rabbonim in the United States decided to hold the kinus in Citi Field tonight, Chabad Rabbonim and mashpi’im in Israel decided to hold a kinus to address the dangers posed by the internet, which will take place this week in the 770 building in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch of Morristown hosted a ‘Shabbos Achdus’ for over 200 bochurim this week.
Eli Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Tova Wilmowsky (Crown Heights)
When Jenna Kress, 16, first met Danielle Orleans, 9, she had to stay on the other side of the room for a visit that lasted about 15 minutes. Fast forward three years later, Jenna continues to visit Danielle, who is high functioning on the Autism spectrum, every single Sunday, staying for hours to read, write, cook and bake with the little girl who has allowed her to not only come close in physical proximity, but in her heart, as well.
Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.
On today’s date, 28 Iyar, in 1967, Israeli forces liberated Har Habyis in the Miraculous Six-Day War. Masses of Jews thronged to the Western wall, which had been off limits for 19 years. Seen in this photograph is Rabbi Zushe Dvortz, of Kfar Chabad, awaiting his turn to enter the narrow passage that still separated the wall from an adjacent row of houses.
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A young man from Moscow’s Georgian Jewish community was murdered on Friday, the innocent victim of a clash between two gangs. The victim has been identified as Yaakov ben Mordechai Manasharshivili, 26.
Ron David Hershcopf (Windsor, CT) and Minna Chava Caplan (Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave] at 8:30 PM
Moshe Aber (Sydney, Australia) and Mushka Wircberg (Crown Heights)
1485 President St. [corner Albany Ave.]
80 students of Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles spent an uplifting and inspiring ‘Shabbos Achdus’ this week at the North County Chabad Center in Yorba Linda, CA. The Shabbos was filled with farbrengens by Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, the yeshiva’s mashpia, and Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, the local Shliach.
