A 20-year-old woman who was barely holding on to her life after Saturday night’s rocket attack now is breathing on her own, adding another miracle in the wake of Arab terrorist attacks on Israel.
The city is urging residents not to panic but to take basic precautions ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irene, which has strengthened to a category three storm.
They call it Judaism in a suitcase. And it’s a good description when Rabbi Yossi Matusof opens up his bag and starts to pull out all the items he and fellow Rabbi Chaim Itkin are hauling with them all over Alberta.
Jewish and black South African teens have come together for a joint, 400-mile bike ride to Durban under the auspices of the Cycalive outreach program, JTA reports.
1976: The Rebbe walks in to daven Mincha in 770 during the month of Menachem Av and pauses to give Tzedakkah in a Pushka held by a camper from the Gan Israel day camp of Queens. From the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov – Montreal.
Yehuda and Shterna Sarah (nee Zalmanov) Cohen (Crown Heights)
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.
Kehot Publication Society released a new Hebrew volume on the history of Chabad in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Italian television station RAI sent a news crew to the citron orchards supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbis Moshe Lazar and Shmuel Rodal of Milan to cover operations at the Calabria fields that produce some of the finest fruit, known in Hebrew as the etrog, used by Jewish worshippers during the seven-day fall holiday known as Sukkot.
Nesanel Zhivalyuk (Newtown, PA) and Dassi White (Seattle, WA)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An accident on President Street turned chaotic after one of the drivers attempted to flee the scene – on foot, only to be chased down and apprehended not even a block away.
Black and Jewish residents of Crown Heights joined Sunday in a rocking block party on the streetcorner that was the epicenter of the Brooklyn riots 20 years ago.
Mrs. Brana Weiss and Mrs. Chaya Lewis are sitting shiva for their dear brotherm Chaim Lezerowitz, at 1347 Union Street.
Email: hichaya@aol.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim
Mendy (ben Yitzchok) Holtzman (Crown Heights) and Deena Kashy (Miami, FL)
L’Chaim Wednesday at 1451 president st.
[Between Albany and Kinston Ave]
More than 5,000 U.S. children and teens are injured each year in falls from windows, according to a study that suggests the problem stretches beyond urban high-rises.
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