At around 4:00 PM today, a minivan burst into flames on Crown St. Between Kingston and Albany Ave., just as students from the nearby Lubavitcher Yeshiva were making their way home.
Demolition began in preparation for the foundation to be laid at the site of the new Cheder & Beis Chaya Mushka building in Monsey, NY. The first section of the new building came off of the production line Wednesday morning.
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Mendel Gurevitch, Eli Kaltmann and Levi Berger explained to NYC police officers that Lubavitchers have a uniform too; they were offered to switch hats for a moment.
Brooklyn straphangers whose travels have been thrown into disarray by nighttime shutdowns of a key subway line this week are in for longer-term pain as another line shuts on weekends stretching through next month.
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Police are looking for a pair of burglars who posed as utility workers to gain entrance to homes in the Mapleton section of Brooklyn.
The 49th state was built by Jewish people, Jewish money and Jewish know-how. And although their numbers are small, Jews are still disproportionately prominent in commercial and public life.
After a not-so-typical Super Bowl weekend last year filled with spirited Shabbos meals, meeting friends from around the country, touring the Big Apple, and traditional Jewish attractions, Wisconsinite Julius Zimmerman spoke at last year’s CTeen Shabbaton banquet about how glad he and his peers were for choosing to come to the CTeen Shabbaton instead of watching the anticipated Super Bowl game featuring the Packers, their home team.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] –- Four Beis Rivka high school students were accosted on their way home from school Tuesday evening right outside their school building on Crown Street.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Yehoshua Kleinberg, 90, of Crown Heights. The levaya will be Thursday at 11:15 AM, begining at the shomrei hadas chapels, and will pass in front of 770 at 12:00 PM. He is survived by his wife and three children.
A gathering of family, friends and acquaintances of “America’s Tenor” joined a Jewish archivist to mark the anniversary of legendary performer Jan Peerce’s passing with prayers, Torah study and the sharing of stories. A product of the Lower East Side, Peerce, whose parents were Belorussian immigrants, rose to prominence with performances at the Metropolitan Opera and in 1971, made his Broadway debut as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Attention Ladies: This Sunday at 3:00 PM starts the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s 13th annual Chinese Auction. Enjoy an uplifting evening that will brighten your days and warm your stomachs.
The New York Civil Liberties Union has sued the New York Police Department for refusing to release internal audits of a Brooklyn precinct, saying the reports are essential to show whether the department has manipulated its crime statistics to make them appear more favorable.
Fortune 500 company Pitney Bowes, a hardware and software company with over 36,000 employees worldwide has chosen to profile young Independent Chasidic Folk-Rock Singer Moshe Hecht to help promote their latest innovative product.
One New Year evokes another. We Jews like to pride ourselves on the differences between the secular New Year celebrations that have just ended and our religious New Year in the fall. The meaningless blare of tinseled horns versus the shofar blasts calling us to prayer; the excessive drinking versus the sanctification of holiday wine; the crowds in Times Square versus the crowds on their way to the synagogue.
The Girls in Beis Rivka in Yerres, France graduated only a few months after losing their beloved principle Rabbi Uri Shonthal, OBM. The name of the departed principle appeared on the diplomas, and many heartwarming speeches were made about how much great influence he had on the students and how much he is missed.
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