The Rebbe’s Lawyer – Jerry Shestack Passes
Chabad-Lubavitch mourns the passing August 18, of Jerry Shestack, a distinguished attorney and outspoken activist for human and civil rights, Israel and Soviet Jewry.
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10 Proposed Rules for New York City Sidewalks
by Robert Selsam – Daily News
All the attention to and fuss over bike lanes has obscured a bigger issue affecting the public rights of way, namely the use of our sidewalks.
CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.
Video: Days 2 and 3 of the Crown Heights Riots
CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.
Op-Ed: The Crown Heights Riots
by Eliyahu Federman
Healing racial tensions between the black and Jewish community of Crown Heights is imperative for the two groups to co-exist. No one disputes that. I certainly don’t. In fact, after the 1991 Crown Heights riots the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in looking toward the future, told Mayor Dinkins that the black and Jewish communities are “one side, one people, living in one city.”
Monday Night L’Chaims
Binyamin Deren (Lod, Israel) and Sara Rudolph (Pittsburgh, PA)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Motty Hershkowitz (Crown Heights) and Chaya Musya Nerenberg (Oak Park, MI)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Major Posek to R. Osdoba: “Don’t Bend to Pressure”
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shafran, one of Israel’s leading poskim, writes that it’s forbidden for Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba to sit with Rabbi Yosef Braun, due to pressure, and community members should not be asking Braun questions in Isurim and Heterim until issues are clarified.
Chabad Sponsors Jon Voight Visit to Terror Victims
Ynet
Hollywood actor Jon Voight visited Soroka Hospital in Beersheba Sunday in an effort to cheer up victims of the recent violence from Gaza – Thursday’s terror attacks as well as the still ongoing rocket attacks that followed.
New Engagement!
Binyamin Deren (Lod, Israel) and Sara Rudolph (Pittsburgh, PA)
L’Chaim Tonight Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Shluchim’s ‘Do as I Do’ Approach in Raising Children
Chautauqua Daily
Every morning, 11-year old Mendel Vilenkin wakes up with a kippah on his head. He climbs down from his top bunk, sits next to his bed and pours water over his hands, alternating three times in a ritual washing — known as negel vasser or “nail water” — to begin the day of service to God. Eight-year-old Shmuel also knows the morning rhythm.
Libyan Regime Collapses
Haaretz
Libyan rebels have captured two of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s sons, and his presidential guard has surrendered, said the rebel National Transitional Council.
Sun, Surf and Shabbos on Spain’s Sun Coast
A Jewish concert sponsored by Chabad drew 2000 people to a bullring in Estepona last week.
For the kosher traveler, vacationing often requires more careful packing and planning. Outside of well traveled Jewish destinations, kosher restaurants—prevalent and popular as they are—are still few and far between. And staples like glatt kosher chicken, meat, and even dairy products (of strict kosher certification standards) are not readily available in local supermarkets.
Residents of Be'er Sheva documented events in their city Saturday as Hamas launched a large-scale attack, with rockets raining down upon the city. The Iron Dome system's intervention was also caught on film.
Videos: Be’er Sheva Residents Document Missile Attack
Residents of Be’er Sheva documented events in their city Saturday as Hamas launched a large-scale attack, with rockets raining down upon the city. The Iron Dome system’s intervention was also caught on film.
Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, but residents of the neighborhood are coming together to celebrate how far they’ve come.
Community Marks 20th Anniversary of CH Riots
Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, but residents of the neighborhood are coming together to celebrate how far they’ve come.
NY1
Officials from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs are warning shoppers to keep their eyes peeled at checkout.
City Proposes “Shop Act” To Combat Overcharging
NY1
Officials from the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs are warning shoppers to keep their eyes peeled at checkout.
Conejo Valley in Spiritual Bloom
Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Artist’s rendering of the new Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Agoura Hills, opening September 2011.
One year after they opened Chabad of Agoura Hills in 1986, Chabad officials decided to hold a Chanukah festival at an Agoura Hills mall. They put up a menorah and, soon thereafter, received an anonymous phone call demanding its removal.
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