One family’s generous gesture created a joint effort between MEKIMI Cheer Up Squad and JEM, to team together in providing educational and inspirational DVD’s to enhance the lives of bedridden children and adults.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An off duty cop was injured when he was involved in a car accident in the intersection of Crown and Troy. The driver door had to be cut off in order to free the driver from the wreckage.
Yoey and Shira (nee Charter) Muchnik (Camarillo, CA)
Yossi Saacks (Dix hills,NY) and Nechama Dina Keller (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Thursday Night at 935 Eastern Parkway
July 1942: At the height of World War II Aaron Roth, a soldier from New York, begins his service—but not without a fateful meeting with the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents an amazing Encounter of a very special blessing and a promise to his father that followed Mr. Roth from an army base in Virginia to the heart of wartime Tel Aviv. With special thanks to Rabbi Yerachmiel Tiles, Director, Ascent Institute, Safed.
With a solemn face, Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited the Kletsky family in Borough Park as they continued to mourn their eight-year-old son Lieby.
The Fast ends at 9:04pm (NYC Times – More Times)
The 17th of Tammuz is a fast day, which is devoted to mourning the breaching of Jerusalem’s walls and the other tragic events that occurred on this day, and repenting and rectifying their causes. We refrain from all food and drink from “daybreak” (about an hour before sunrise, depending on location) until nightfall. Special prayers and Torah readings are added to the day’s services.
Campers and staff in Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY pose for a group photo in the big lawn behind the Beth.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: The Rebbe leads Selichos on the Fast of Tammuz, at his home on President Street. 18 Tammuz, 5748 · July 3, 1988.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said traffic tie-ups cost businesses billions of dollars. They have to use extra gas and simply lose time, which slows down productivity.
A pair of bizarre trespassing incidents at two of the region’s major airports, including one in Newark on Saturday, have heightened concerns about airport perimeter security.
Despite sweltering temperatures in Oak Park, MI, more than 300 people turned out Sunday to participate in the groundbreaking of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman Campus.
Pictures from the Lechaim of Arye Zev Naparstek (Los Angeles, CA) and Mushki Boteach (Engelwood, NJ) took place in the Jewish Childrens Museum in Crown Heights on Sunday night.
Getzy Rosenfeld (Tzfas, Israel) and Mushky Labkofsky ( Los Angeles, CA)
L’Chaim Tonight Monday at 1349 President street
[between Kingston and Brooklyn]
Rabbi Zalman Kazen, a longtime leader of Cleveland’s Jewish community known for his relentless and unyielding energy to assist local Jews with their physical and spiritual needs, passed away at the age of 92. Juggling a hectic schedule into his 90s, Kazen inspired the community to grow in its scholarship and observance.
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