Skechers is teaming up with Kids Foot Locker to kick off the third annual Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk to raise funds for children with special needs and education on October 30, 2011.
Oprah Winfrey, in New York as part of a new television series, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” that premieres in January, visited the neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Borough Park and Brooklyn Heights for a glimpse into the daily life of Chasidic Jews and how their intense spiritual devotion informs and strengthens their dealings with the outside world.
Pete Sutherland traveled to Zuccotti Park all the way from Georgia Friday, shivering as he wielded a handmade sign that read, “The Reason the Arabs Hate Us.”
While the tzibur is just beginning to recover from the bochrim in Japan incident, which all continue davening will end soon and end well, there is now a story of a Yerushalmi bachur involved with drugs and imprisoned in India.
Yossi and Sarah’le (nee Lipsker) Langsam (Crown Heights)
Six more people are alleging that they were abused by a security guard at an Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne, according to police.
Menachem Mendel Simon (Crown Heights) and Leah Rochel Rubenstein (London)
1485 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Mendy Abergel (Crown Heights/Kfar Chabad) and Chaya Esther Katz (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Dani Saul (Pittsburgh) and Yael Konsker (Toronto)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
A special full-day Yom Iyun was hosted by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim for Bochurim as they take leave for the upcoming year on Shlichus to Chabad Yeshivos worldwide, held in Congregation B’nei Jacob – Chabad of Park Slope, NY.
Levi and Chana Dina (nee Rabinowicz) Slonim (S. Paulo, Brazil)
I think it’s high time there was some new cultural diffusion. I don’t mean cultural diffusion on a grand scale, where one nation spreads its lifestyles and outlooks to another nation or anything of the sort. Rather, I am proposing a small-scale exchange of ideas, lifestyles, and philosophies within two sectors of the Jewish world: Modern Orthodoxy and Chabad Lubavitch.
The Orthodox Jewish-run Brooklyn bus company that stuck women in the back seats is putting an end to the controversial practice after a reprimand from the city.
The Maimonides Day School published a new scholarly journal featuring dissertations in Hebrew and English by students, parents, alumnae and staff of the Albany, N.Y., institution.
Dozens of Chabad avreichim will be entering the IDF and Israel police in the coming months in a special program coordinated between the agencies and Chabad, connected to the Shachar program. This program is tailored to chareidi inductees, accommodating their lifestyle while permitting them to serve.
Mendy Abergel (Crown Heights/Kfar Chabad) and Chaya Esther Katz (Crown Heights)
Menachem Mendel Simon (Crown Heights) and Leah Rochel Rubenstein (London)
L’Chaim Wednesday at 1485 President St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave]
New York City is considering a plan to remove all trash cans from some subway platforms.
Most agunot are younger woman with children who are trying to leave a first marriage, according to a new study.
