CROWN HEIGHTS — A short but wild chase ended with the arrest of four individuals for trespassing and resisting arrest after they were found in an apartment of a building whose inhabitants are mostly Jewish.
Tucked away in an unassuming brownstone basement on a leafy Crown Heights side street, a pioneering group of Jewish women at Crown Heights Fitness are stretching and bending, kosher-style. These women did not start this yoga process in a casual way; they had to examine their beliefs. Would yoga contradict their spiritual views as Orthodox Jews?
Family members, friends and admirers of the late Horav Mordechai Meir Hakohen Bryski o”h, will be marking the upcoming first yahrtzeit of the beloved Family Patriarch, Tamim and Askan with two separate events, on two different dates, at two different locations.
The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) course The Kabbalah of You explores the concept of happiness and self-actualization via a “mystical roadmap.” To make lofty insights such as the innate relationship between the soul and G-d more accessible to human understanding, JLI’s multimedia department looked to children, whose innocent words in the video point to an underlying truth.
COLUMBIA, SC — An exciting Car Menorah parade, that had over thirty cars participate, traveled from the Columbia Jewish Day School with a police escort all the way downtown to the South Carolina Statehouse for the annual Menorah Lighting.
Feliz Hanukkah! Rabbi Mordechai Lichy and his 200 members of the Habbad Spanish Center in Coral Springs, Florida have created a Latino community where their Jewish faith, Spanish language and Latino culture co-exist as one.
MARLBORO, NJ — Chanukah flames were kindled by Rabbi Avrohom Bernstein, in front of the Robertsville Fire Station, Marlboro NJ on the fifth night of Chanukah in the presence of tens of “little firemen” (wearing firemen hats). The hats were distributed to the children by the station, in honor of the occasion.
Part of its ‘Million Tree” Initiative, landscapers working under contract from the city planted trees north of Eastern Parkway this morning. A reader sent us these pictures.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Shliach from out of town on his way to the Hey Teves Farbrengen, was walking on East New York Avenue when he spotted a Black man carrying a Tallis and Teffilin bag. Without pause he snatched it from the man and a struggle and commotion ensued.
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Nashville has not had a new Mikvah dedicated in over 50 years, which changed this week when Chabad-Lubavitch of Nashville dedicated their new Mikvah, the crown jewel, of its campus.
Senator Daniel Inouye, the Senate’s most senior member, one of its most influential legislators, staunch supporter of Israel and steadfast friend of the Jewish people passed away Tuesday in Washington, D.C. at the age of 88.
Anash and Bochurim gathered at Beis Rivka Campus Chomesh for the annual Central Didan Notzach Farbrengen.
Until this weekend I had never heard of Noah Pozner, or of his family. But Noah’s father, Lenny, has a friend, and the friend had heard of us and called.
“They need you. You can speak to them, you can relate to them. Come, please come.”
Chanukah is an especially meaningful time for Chabad of Baka, which was founded in memory of Levi Hendel ob’m, one of the temimim who passed away en route to Chanukah mivtzaim in 2006. Levi Hendel was 13 years old at the time. He and two other Chabad volunteers, Yonatan Biton and Moshe Golan, lost their lives in a car accident on the road from Eilat.
Recently, S. Monica, California has been at the forefront of the secularist war against the public commemoration of religious holidays. This affected all holiday displays including Menorahs. But Chabad of S. Monica did not yield – setting up portable Menorahs for parks and on pickup trucks for other public lightings
Sholom Ber and Miriam (nee Minsky) Kapluschnik (Crown Heights)
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