Children Graduate Hebrew School in Scotland’s Capital
80 people – children, parents and grandparents – filled the Lubavitch Centre in Glasgow, Scotland for the annual Hebrew School Graduation, Prize Giving and tea reception.
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Google Brings Free Wi-Fi to Some Subway Stations
NY Times
This summer, New York subway riders might be able to actually get some work done on the train (rather than just beating their high scores in Angry Birds). Beginning Monday, free Wi-Fi will be available at a number of stations courtesy of Google.
Dutch Princess Inaugurates Jewish Museum
Princess Maxima of the Netherlands formally inaugurated a new building at the Jewish museum in the Dutch city of Elburg on Wednesday. Located about 50 miles northeast of Amsterdam, Elburg was once home to more than 100 Jewish residents, who prayed in the synagogue that was converted into the museum four years ago.
German Court Outlaws Bris Milah
The district court of Cologne, Germany ruled this week that religious circumcision of a child is harmful and that a parent’s jurisdiction over his child does not extend to the practice of circumcision.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's chief rabbi Berel Lazar visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem today, June 26, 2012. After saying a prayer at the wall as customary, Mr. Putin requested a tour of the temple mount tunnels, which they were promptly given by the Kotel's rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Photos: Putin Visits Western Wall with Rabbi Lazar
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem today, June 26, 2012. After saying a prayer at the wall as customary, Mr. Putin requested a tour of the temple mount tunnels, which they were promptly given by the Kotel’s rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Nearly a Quarter of Brooklyn’s Residents Are Jewish
NY Daily News
Kings County is the most Kosher jurisdiction in the nation. A new study has found that nearly one in four Brooklynites are Jews – making the borough home to the most Jews of any county in the country.
Photos: Parksville Gan Israel Heads Off to Camp
Camp Gan Israel of Parksville, NY set off this morning for the first month of summer up in the Catskill Mountains.
A two-car crash in Crown Heights sent seven people to the hospital on Monday afternoon. The crash occurred just after 2:20 p.m. at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Rochester Avenue.
Seven Injured in Crown Heights Car Crash
A two-car crash in Crown Heights sent seven people to the hospital on Monday afternoon. The crash occurred just after 2:20 p.m. at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Rochester Avenue.
Sydney Anash Unite for Gimmel Tammuz
This past Sunday night the entire Sydney community – Shluchim, Rabbonim and Bal Habatim from many synagogues accross Sydney – came together for the 18th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz.
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Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Yeshiva Students with their mentors. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
Basking Ridge Chabad Celebrates 20 Years
Daily Record
Chabad Jewish Center in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards kicked off the season with the Mercedes Feldman Summer Music Festival.
Whatever preconceived notions one might have about the demeanor or perspectives of an Orthodox rabbi, be prepared to have them completely shattered upon meeting Rabbi Mendy Herson, spiritual leader of Chabad Jewish Center in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards.
Authorities were called after a man, dressed as Elmo, started pestering tourists and spewing anti-Semitic vitriol in Central Park yesterday, leading him to be taken in for mental evaluation.
Video: Anti-Semitic Elmo in Central Park
Authorities were called after a man, dressed as Elmo, started pestering tourists and spewing anti-Semitic vitriol in Central Park yesterday, leading him to be taken in for mental evaluation.
Guma’s Wife Asked for Divorce Before Disappearance
ABC
Troubled missing millionaire Guma Aguiar‘s wife told him she wanted a divorce just hours before he vanished from his fishing boat, the lawyer for Aguiar’s mother told ABCNews.com today.
Photos: Mayor of Beitar Illit at Rebbe’s Ohel
Yaki Hershkop, a Lubavitcher Askan from Beitar Illit, Israel, invited and accompanied the mayor of Beitar Illit, Meir Rubestein, along with his assistant, Yehudah Deutsch, to the Rebbe’s Ohel on Sunday.
Photos: Moishe Holtzberg Visits Viznitzer Rebbe
Shturem
Merely a few hours before the news broke that one of the lone surviving perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre, which claimed the lives of his parents, was apprehended, Moishe Holtzberg visited the Viznitzer Rebbe in Bnei Brak with his grandfather Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg.
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Chaim Pil (San Francisco, CA) and Devora Leah (bas Reb Shimon) Horowitz (Crown Heights)
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