French police searching for a gunman who shot dead four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse have launched a raid in the north of the city. Two police officers have been injured in the operation, which is reported to have begun before dawn and is ongoing. The suspect, named as Mohammed Merah, is reported to have travelled to fight in Afghanistan and to have been jailed there before escaping in 2008. Latest Update: 1:30 PM
In a shocking incident this morning, a 14-year-old boy was hit by a rogue driver and was left to fend for himself. Although he was quite possibly the victim of a hate crime, the police showed no interest in pursuing the perpetrator and bringing him to justice.
Shea Halberstam (Crown Heights) and Abby Waxman (Cleveland, OH)
The entire collection of the Rebbe’s Sichos and Maamarim are being split by shluchim from all four corners of the earth.
When Lizzy Breiter heard about the University of Southern California’s Remarkable Women Awards, the sophomore knew exactly who she wanted to nominate.
Three former French soldiers who were believed to be involved in the shooting attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse were questioned and released by French police.
Wails and weeping filled the air Tuesday as coffins bearing the four slain victims were carried out from the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school the day after the shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France.
Yossi Dworcan (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Sarah Malka Lipskar (Johannesburg, South Africa)
L’chaim will be tonight at 655 Montgomery St.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Construction on the long-awaited Chabad Jewish Community Center of Aspen is likely to start in three to four weeks, Rabbi Mendel Mintz said. Mintz, members of the local Jewish community and other well-wishers gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday afternoon at the project site, where the synagogue’s temporary facility now stands.
It was the largest rabbinic gathering in the history of West Coast Chabad. On Sunday, March 4, Chabad’s 260 rabbis — emissaries of The Rebbe from up and down the states of California and Nevada — gathered in Westwood to celebrate the 40th Annual West Coast Kinus HaShluchim and to pay tribute to Shlomo Yehuda and Tamar Rechnitz, pillars of chesed in California and throughout the world, who stepped forward last year and courageously rescued the West Coast Chabad Headquarters from financial distress.
Eli (ben R’ Ari) Chitrik (Crown Heights) and Malky (bas R’ Yehoshua) Chein (Crown Heights
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
The NYPD stepped up security at Jewish institutions on Monday after a gunman at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, shot and killed a teacher and three children. Though there was no specific threat, extra police presence was added to more than 50 Jewish centers across the city, including Lubavitch headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, NYPD officials said.
Students, parents and staff at Darchei Menachem Boys’ School in Crown Heights took to their feet to celebrate the joyous month of Adar.
Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs Invites you to a networking event called “Start it up” With Zalmi Duchman. With your mind set on a goal – to get to the point of “Start it up,” you should be successful and follow through to reach your dreams. Duchman will be speaking about his experiences as the founder and CEO of “The Fresh Diet.”
About a month ago, a letter came out signed by many Chabad Rabbonim, Roshei Yeshiva and Mashpiim urging bochurim to get married earlier, at the age of 20-21, instead of what has been the common practice to begin getting involved in shidduchim at 23-24.
Thousands participated during a silent march at the Place de la Bastille in Paris today to pay tribute to the four victims killed by a gunman at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Meanwhile, France’s incumbent President and UMP ruling candidate for 2012 presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy and France’s First Lady Carla Bruni, attended at the Nazareth synagogue for a somber ceremony.
A Kfar Chabad resident was struck by a car in an intersection at the entrance to the central Israeli town. He had reportedly been intoxicated, and ran into the street where he was hit by an oncoming vehicle. He condition is listed as critical. Please say Tehilim for Meir Tzvi ben Yael Katrina.
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