Going for a walk the Monday evening, following the thousands who paraded on Eastern Parkway marking Labor Day, our photographer observed crews hard at work cleaning up the mounds of trash left behind in their wake.
As life goes digital, people are using social media tools to broadcast more about themselves to their friends. One such service, foursquare, allows users to tell others where they are using a game-like mechanism. Even 770 Eastern Parkway has a “mayor” of its own.
A Balaclava man has appeared in court charged with molesting children at a Melbourne Jewish school.
A tough-looking, leather-clad gang of Hasidic bikers who call themselves “Rebbe’s Riders” are cruising the tri-state area, bringing God’s word to other motorcycle-riding Jews they meet on the road.
Levi Shusterman (Melbourne, Australia) and Chaya Gansburg (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Tonight Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
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.
Yoel Lipszyc (Simferopol, Crimea) and Miriam Leaf (Oak Park, MI)
Lechaim Tuesday at 706 East 7th St
Kensington, Brooklyn [between Ditmas and 18th Ave]
Elisha and Tanya (nee Landa) Rogalsky (Crown Heights)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein was honored last week for his years-long dedication in bringing Jewish students to Israel.
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