New Engagement!
Levi Shusterman (Melbourne, Australia) and Chaya Gansburg (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Tonight Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
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Two cops were wounded in a gun battle Monday night, capping off a terrifying spate of shootings that left four people dead on Monday - one a bystander - and marred Brooklyn's West Indian Day Parade.
Total Labor Day Weekend Tally: 48 Shot, 8 Dead
Two cops were wounded in a gun battle Monday night, capping off a terrifying spate of shootings that left four people dead on Monday – one a bystander – and marred Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade.
New Engagement!
Yoel Lipszyc (Simferopol, Crimea) and Miriam Leaf (Oak Park, MI)
Lechaim Tuesday at 706 East 7th St
Kensington, Brooklyn [between Ditmas and 18th Ave]
Baby Girl!
Elisha and Tanya (nee Landa) Rogalsky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Shimi (ben Simcha) Piekarski (Crown Heights) and Esther (bas Shmuel Chaim) Bluming (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights [CHI] — Reports are flooding in about an ongoing hostage situation on the corner of Montgomery St. and Troy Ave., where a stabbing occured. It appears the suspect fled into the corner building - 840 Montgomery - and holed himself up in one of the apartments.
BREAKING: Hostage Situation at 840 Mongomery St., Corner of Troy. UPDATE: Suspect Apprehended
Crown Heights [CHI] — Reports are flooding in about an ongoing hostage situation on the corner of Montgomery St. and Troy Ave., where a stabbing occured. It appears the suspect fled into the corner building – 840 Montgomery – and holed himself up in one of the apartments.
Gunfire erupted today near the massive West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn — not far from where Mayor Bloomberg was marching — as the entire city reeled from a epidemic of shootings over the past two days.
By noon today, a total of 46 people had been shot in the city since Saturday morning, authorities said.
While Mayor Marched, Shots Fired at the Parade
Gunfire erupted today near the massive West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn — not far from where Mayor Bloomberg was marching — as the entire city reeled from a epidemic of shootings over the past two days.
By noon today, a total of 46 people had been shot in the city since Saturday morning, authorities said.
Wisconsin Shul Dedicates Torah 3 Years After Break-In
Visitors from around Wisconsin joined out-of-state guests at the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Kenosha to celebrate the dedication of a new Torah scroll commissioned after the theft of the center’s previous two scrolls.
Hear and get inspiration from a group of teachers, students and principals who will tell you all about how significant teachers are in their lives and share the glory of affecting people for life. This video was produced and directed by David Jasse
Video: To Become a Teacher
Hear and get inspiration from a group of teachers, students and principals who will tell you all about how significant teachers are in their lives and share the glory of affecting people for life. This video was produced and directed by David Jasse
5,000 March for Friendship Circle
Neither the threat of rain nor a torn tendon in his left foot could keep Michael Weiss away from the sixth annual Walk4Friendship, a Friendship Circle fundraiser that brought roughly 5,000 walkers to West Bloomfield Sunday afternoon.
Labor Day Gospel Will Donate to the Kletzky Fund
Aside from all the Hip-Hop, Calypso and Reggae this year the parade will feature an addition of some spiritual music, specifically gospel – intended to raise awareness and prevent youth violence. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the Laiby Kletzky memorial fund.
Rabbi Honored for Decade as Israel Trip Leader
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein was honored last week for his years-long dedication in bringing Jewish students to Israel.
Night of Violence Injures Many and Claims Life
An inseparable part of the West Indian-American Day Parade is a nighttime celebration called J’ouvert. It is a night feared and dreaded by the police, both for their own safety and the amount of people who get shot and stabbed throughout the night. This year was no different, with a number of fatalities as well as people shot and stabbed all around the area.
Click here for more information on allegations of anti-Semitism in the lawsuit brought against the town of Postville, Iowa.
Video: Postville Councilwoman Ginger Medberry’s Virulent Anti-Semitism Caught on Hidden Camera
Click here for more information on allegations of anti-Semitism in the lawsuit brought against the town of Postville, Iowa.
Baby Girl!
Sendy and Rochel Dubrawsky (Radlett, UK)
