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In an interview with The Algemeiner, Rabbi Shlomo Koves, the Hungarian Chabad Rabbi who was challenged to a debate this week by Gabor Vona, leader of Jobbik, a Hungarian nationalist party, has outright declined the request.
Illegal fireworks were set off on the roof of 565 Crown St. in celebration of America’s independence last night. A concerned neighbor called the police, who went up on the rooftop searching for the culprits.
After tallying the numbers and sorting through the responses of participants, officials with the Chabad on Campus International Foundation proclaimed its annual conference for campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries an unqualified success.
Many guests came to rejoice with the talmidim of Kollel Tiferes Menachem in Los Angeles as they celebrated a gala Chag HaSmicha on Wednesday 23 Sivan. Hailing from overseas and across the United States, parents and relatives came to radiate with pride as their sons reached this distinguished milestone. The enveloping atmosphere was one of brotherly love, joy and accomplishment.
Abba Rubin (Albany, NY) and Raizel Glick (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Just a few days after a far-right Hungarian politician discovered his Jewish roots, the leader of his political party challenged a Chabad rabbi to a debate.
On July 4th, 1976, the United States’ 200th birthday, a daring raid by Israeli commandos in Entebbe, Uganda freed 102 hostages of Palestinian and German terrorists. Rabbi Shimon Posner, director of Chabad of Rancho Mirage, CA, speaks of his childhood memories of that fateful day.
A wandering Jew writes to the Shliach in Cancun about his experiences at a Chabad House elsewhere in Mexico:
Boaz and Cindi Topol (Crown Heights)
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Cheder Chabad of Monsey has welcomed a new Preschool director, Mrs. Yona Lazarus. Mrs. Lazarus comes with almost 30 years of teaching experience, six of which she served as a director of her respective department, including extensive experience in teaching, educational administration, teacher training and community leadership.
This scene on East New York near the corner of Kingston Ave. has one Crown Heights resident furious. Can you figure out why?
Answer: The resident was upset that his neighbors deliberately park in such a fashion as to deny others a space to park – just so that they can pull out of their parking spot with greater ease.
Chabad houses, yeshivas, organizational headquarters and even a mikveh in the New York area are among the beneficiaries of $9.7 million in funds allocated by the Department of Homeland Security for Jewish organizations and facilities considered vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
Bochurim attending the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ sat down with their counselors, teachers and Rabbi Yosef Wolwovsky, Shliach in Connecticut and former head counselor at Y.S.P., for a Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen.
Rabbi Chay Amar, shaliach to Golden Beach, Florida, gave a shiur Tuesday night in North Miami Beach’s Yeshiva Torah Ohr, which was followed by a chasidishe farbrengen.
A white Honda sped through a red light on Eastern Parkway and Albany Ave. at dusk yesterday, swiping a livery cab and crashing straight into a traffic pole.
Menachem Shaykevitz (Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel) and Mashie Boas (Givat Ze’ev, Israel)
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