Ohel Chana in Melbourne Australia was the first Chabad Seminary to begin its program this year. The students of 5772 began their year down under with the zechus of a farbrengen with Rabbi AL Ceitlin from Tzefas, on Motsei Shabbos Chof Av, following their arrival in Australia before Shabbos.
There’s a new war between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state lawmakers over more red-light cameras on New York City streets.
The 2011 JCC Maccabi games concluded Thursday, August 18, in Philadelphia. The games are designed to provide Jewish athletes the world over the opportunity to share their heritage and customs in a competitive athletic settings.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: The Arizal writes that the numerical value of ‘Dimah–Tears’ is 120, which in Torah signifies full life. In truth, the letters only add up to 119, but when the word ‘Dimah’ as a whole is counted, it equals 120. A sicha from 20 Menachem Av, 5742 · August 9, 1982.
New York City’s overall crime rate could increase for the first time in decades, driven by alarming spikes in murder, rapes and robberies in many neighborhoods.
The city’s red-light traffic cameras have resulted in more than $52 million in fines last year to drivers who ran the lights, according to Department of Transportation records obtained by the New York Daily News.
The coordinated, multistage attack on Eilat that left eight Israelis dead and dozens more wounded on Thursday has shaken the tranquility of Israel’s southern resort city.
As Ari Walters and Benyomin Klipper switched on a power saw and tore through the tip of a ram’s horn, about 18 Hebrew school pupils at Chabad of Augusta looked on with awe.
Chabad-Lubavitch mourns the passing August 18, of Jerry Shestack, a distinguished attorney and outspoken activist for human and civil rights, Israel and Soviet Jewry.
All the attention to and fuss over bike lanes has obscured a bigger issue affecting the public rights of way, namely the use of our sidewalks.
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.
Healing racial tensions between the black and Jewish community of Crown Heights is imperative for the two groups to co-exist. No one disputes that. I certainly don’t. In fact, after the 1991 Crown Heights riots the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in looking toward the future, told Mayor Dinkins that the black and Jewish communities are “one side, one people, living in one city.”
Binyamin Deren (Lod, Israel) and Sara Rudolph (Pittsburgh, PA)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Motty Hershkowitz (Crown Heights) and Chaya Musya Nerenberg (Oak Park, MI)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shafran, one of Israel’s leading poskim, writes that it’s forbidden for Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba to sit with Rabbi Yosef Braun, due to pressure, and community members should not be asking Braun questions in Isurim and Heterim until issues are clarified.
Hollywood actor Jon Voight visited Soroka Hospital in Beersheba Sunday in an effort to cheer up victims of the recent violence from Gaza – Thursday’s terror attacks as well as the still ongoing rocket attacks that followed.
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