A Brooklyn judge today formally dismissed charges against a man whose beating by police was caught on tape.
For the second time in under two weeks, vandals slashed the tires of several parked cars in Crown Heights last night, this time upping their tally to 15.
As the sun was setting over the horizon, the soft, golden rays were shining onto the Tennessee stone at the entrance to Nashville’s Mikvah Mei Chaya.
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As students settle into another school year, it is an opportune time to reflect on an inconvenient truth: Too many children struggle to read Hebrew.
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From time to time, various neighborhoods are featured in The Jewish Week. This week they covered New York’s Upper East Side, with the lead section profiling Chabad in the area, led by Rabbi Ben Tzion and Chanie Krasniasnki.
This past week I had the privilege of accompanying my Mother to Washington, D.C for the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership meeting, where I had the opportunity to hear such speakers as Congressman Artur Davis, Senator George Allen, Fox News Channel contributor Michael Barone, several analysts in US defense policies, foreign and Middle Eastern affairs and RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
Avi Minkowitz (Toronto, Canada) and Leah New (Crown Heights)
Danny Tarkanian is the Republican candidate for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District. This week he traveled to Florida for a fundraising trip, and while he was there he met with the president of the Orthodox Alliance of Florida, Rabbi Y. Kaploun, in his Miami Beach home. Before the candidate left, Rabbi Kaploun gave him a copy of ‘In G-d We Trust,’ a book of the Lubavitcher Rabbe’s teachings on American values.
The Brooklyn District Attorney said he dropped the charges against a homeless man arrested after a beating from police officers because there was “no case” against him.
On Monday, October 22, some 40 members of the Crown Heights community gathered for the launch of Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs’ workspace and new year of programming. While enjoying fine wine and a sushi buffet, attendees were given an insight into the organization’s vision for the future.
Mendy and Rochel (nee Gluckowsky) Junik (Crown Heights)
The man who robbed the Albany Ave. branch of Apple Bank on October 12 has been coming back to rob the same bank time and again for almost two years, police say.
Twenty Holocaust survivors belatedly celebrated their coming-of-age Monday in a moving Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. The men had all turned 13 during the genocide of Europe’s Jews and were hard-pressed to survive, let alone celebrate.
Five young girls were seriously injured Monday afternoon, when a van jumped a curb in a Rockland County community and slammed right into them.
Mechi and Shaina (nee Boruchov) Walter (Boro Park, NY)
Sheldon Adelson emerged this year as the Republican billionaire who kept Newt Gingrich’s flailing presidential campaign afloat and then vowed to spend “whatever it takes” to oust President Barack Obama.
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