Three men were detained last week after planning to attack two Israelis employed by a Jewish school in Baku, the Azerbaijan Ministry of National Security has revealed. Meanwhile, an Azeri commentator considered close to the republic’s president has launched a scathing indictment of Iran.
In recent weeks, the pages of Crownheights.info, the Algemeiner Journal and the Huffington post have hosted a series of op-eds, responses and rejoinders about Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s new book, “Kosher J.”
Following the success of the last two year’s 200K relay races from Prospect Park to Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York, JRunners, an organization dedicated to increasing health awareness while benefitting the health of others, has announced that registration is open for this summer’s exhilarating mega race.
Chicago, IL — More than 400 people gathered in Allison dining hall Friday evening for Northwestern University’s first Mega Shabbat, an event put together by members of the Jewish community on campus with contributions from the University. The event was open to all students, faculty and staff.
Yonasan and Mushki (nee Wilansky) Gelman (Buffalo, NY)
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly laid down the law to the NYPD: Make it easier for New Yorkers to report crimes and make each one of them count.
Parenting is tough. Very tough. Parenting a child with special needs is much tougher. It also can be lonely and isolating, for both the child and the parent. Baltimore’s first Friendship Circle branch aims to change that.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, January 23, for the Asian New Year. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
New York has been named America’s rudest city in a survey by Time + Leisure magazine. But the article said The Big Apple was also America’s most diverse city, which could explain some of the unfriendliness.
The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, spent last Shabbos at the Chabad House in Palm Springs, California. The following are photos of his Melave Malka “tisch” on Motzei Shabbos.
Thousands of people gathered this past weekend at the gravesite in Haditch, Ukraine, of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder and father of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic group which became a worldwide phenomenon affecting the lives of millions and known to almost every Jew, on the 199th anniversary of his death.
Eli Tsvik (Hillside, NJ) and Rachel Schechter (Miami Beach, FL)
L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at 822 Empire blvd.
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Thousands of letters that people wrote to the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rebbe, from the 1930s in Poland to after the war in New York and onward, were found in the Rebbe’s Head Secretary, Rabbi Nissin Mindel‘s possession after his passing.
Mayer and Chanie (nee Kanelsky) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights [CHI] — Early Friday morning, January 20, 2012 the Crown Heights Community Council offices, located at 387 Kingston Ave., were broken into. A police report was filed that day.
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