The Tel Aviv District Court today dismissed a NIS 2.5 billion lawsuit filed by Bertie Sinbeti against Lev Leviev, Leviev Group Project Management, and senior company officers for allegedly stealing a gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Sinbeti.
Hannah Rosenthal, Barack Obama‘s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, has travelled to Malmö, Sweden, for a closed-doors meeting with the city’s mayor who has been accused of fomenting hatred of Jews.
Older people in neighborhoods just south of Bronx Park say they hear gunfire outside their windows nearly every night. They are targets for muggers and scammers as well.
A group of Lubavitchers went this morning to be Menachem Avel the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after the passing of his father, Professor Ben Tzion Netanyahu, OBM. The PM warmly thanked the visitors personally, and asked that they convey his thanks to all Chabaniks for sending their individual Nichumim.
NEW JERSEY — Around 45 people listened to the inspiring story of a Holocaust survivor, who, as a teenager, participated in a successful mass escape from the Nazi death camp Sobibór. The Chabad Jewish Center–Upper Passaic County invited Philip Bialowitz to tell his story of survival at the Wanaque Golden Age Club.
I’ve known my good friend and former neighbor on the Lower East Side of New York Baruch Herzfeld for many years. I’ve learned to respect his perception of what’s in and what’s out, and so this morning when I went to mine the web and found his comment on Facebook on the upcoming “Antinet” – the mass gathering of Orthodox Jews at Citi Field for the purpose of banning the Internet – I decided to a.) take it seriously, and, b.) share it with you.
Ari Abramowitz (Monsey, NY) and Rochel Shira Horowitz (Crown Heights)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.] at 8:30 PM.
Names, places, events and memories were flying so quickly, one wouldn’t know the year was 2012. As the new DVD “Joy!” was being completed for release, a small group gathered at JEM to put the finishing touches on the commentary.
Last Friday afternoon, a group of students of the Stern College for Women at the Yeshiva University stepped off a bus and took a group photo at 770 Eastern Parkway. Some of the girls fidgeted and felt out of place among the crowd of black and white, but by the end of their weekend they would no longer use the phrase “out of place” to describe how they felt in Crown Heights.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Late on Friday afternoon just before Shabbos began, a 41-year-old Jewish man was the victim of a hate crime in front of Bnos Menacheam on East New York and Troy Ave., according to a source in the 71st Precinct.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Moshe Nemanow of Crown Heights at the age of 74.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Miriam Nemanow, and daughters: Mrs. Chanie Moscowitz (Chicago, IL), Mrs. Sara Paltiel (Crown Heights), Mrs. Bassie Marcus (Mission Viejo, CA), Mrs. Rochel Kantor (Rancho S. Margarita, CA), Mrs. Sheiny Vaisfiche (Crown Heights); his brother, Rabbi Yitzchak Nemanow (Brunoy, France); and sister, Mrs. Rochel Pewsner (Crown Heights).
What seems to be a typical day on Kingston Ave. suddenly takes a strange turn…
Crown Heights [CHI] — On Motzei Shabbos, a 15-year-old bochur was on his way home from Shul, when he was accosted on the corner of Albany Ave. and Carroll St. by two African-American males who demanded his cell phone.
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