President Shimon Peres visited students Thursday morning at a Chabad affiliated school in Jerusalem’s Ir Ganim neighborhood, Army Radio reported. Accompanying him was Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat.
Shmuel and Ruti (nee Apfelbaum) Lifshitz (Crown Heights)
Picture this; a cop pulls you over for talking on your cell phone, only you weren’t. Or a cop pulls you over for not stopping at a stop sign, only you did. How can one defend themselves when it’s their word versus the cops? In this video the driver will have evidence to prove that he did make the stop, contrary to the officers allegation, thanks to a ‘dash-cam’ he installed in his car.
This video presentation, performed by Meir and Mussia Garelik of Brussels, Belgium, was viewed by many dignitaries of the European Parliament, who came to celebrate with Rabbi Moshe Garelik, Chairman of the Rabbinical Council of Europe, in honor of his son’s upshernish.
“If you are looking for Jewish people, you have to meet Joanie on the next island,” a resident of Bocas del Toro exclaimed with excitement. “She has become the source of everything Jewish in this area.” Jumping into a water taxi, we made our way to Caremero, the next island over. At Caremero, we began walking around the exotic island to find the Jewish people we had come to visit.
At least 1,000 police officers and volunteers will be on hand this week as classes begin at schools and daycare centers across southern Israel, Southern District Police Cmdr. Yossi Parienti announced Tuesday.
As a student at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, I undertake a wide array of supplemental academic, social, and community service activities in conjunction to my everyday scholastic responsibilities. Suffice to say, these endeavors always prove worthwhile, often resulting in the formation of wonderful new friendships. In 2009, I had the opportunity to expand my understanding of Jewish culture and tradition as a participant in the Chabad Mayanot Birthright Israel Program. An incredibly fulfilling experience on multiple levels, my involvement with the Chabad movement at home in the United States as well as in Israel has served as a foundation for exploring my personal spiritual beliefs and family heritage, a lifelong journey that I look forward to pursuing further.
The Justice Department on Wednesday sued to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile, a deal that would create the largest carrier in the country and reshape the industry.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Earlier this week Shomrim were called to help free the leg of a young boy who got entangled in the frame of his bicycle, but Tuesday, an even more bizarre call came in. A girl was trapped inside of her basement apartment after someone had tied their dog up to her door!
Walk down the cobblestone alley, and you’ll see it lined with restaurants serving falafel and schnitzel and Internet cafés advertising their businesses with Hebrew signs and Israeli flags. Shoppers speak Hebrew, and Israeli pop music emanates from storefronts. A shopkeeper waves and calls out to a passerby, “Shalom!”
After almost 30 years of planning and discussions Chabad of Cambridge are pleased to announce that from mid-September the city will have its own community Mikvah. The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks will officially open the Mikvah at a ceremony taking place on Sunday 11th September 2011.
In the summer months, camps and bungalow communities in upstate communities like Monticello in Sullivan County are home to many orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families.
Raziela Harpaz, of the Chabad Hassidic group, has taken upon herself the mission of promoting the observance of seven Laws of Noah by all mankind.
Every weekend, the Jewish population in the eastern industrial city of Makeyevka, Ukraine, swells. Thanks to a guest house opened in 2008, each and every Sabbath at the home of Chief Rabbi Eliyahu and Dassi Kramer features the new faces of those drawn by the promise of a spiritually-uplifting experience, free food and even free transportation.
Pfizer Inc.‘s just-approved Xalkori, the first new medicine in several years for deadly lung cancer, shows the value of a new research standard: precisely targeting rare diseases linked to gene variants.
Saadia Pevzner (Crown Heights) and Nechama Kupfer (Boro Park)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
The first time Susan Biondi stepped foot in Aishel House, the Houston-based organization founded by Rabbi Eliezer and Rochel Lazaroff to service families in need at nearby Texas Medical Center, she was, in her own words, “blown away.”
