Rabbi Kaplun Elyashiv, a member of Hasidic movement Chabad, discovered one day that he is the star of a Landwer advertisement. He says it happened in 2010 while he was talking with friends and suddenly saw his picture on the café chain’s website.
The weather in Seattle was reminiscent of Manchester. Summer seemed to have been too busy with the east coast to get around to those north-west coast folks. The weather had no effect on the city spirit however. We visited the oldest “farmers only” market in america which opened August 17, 1907, and the people there were in full summer swing. We stayed again by the Morozov household (if you may recall they were the same ones who left their doors open for us after the tire blowout episode on our way to Vancouver). We met some bochurim from Morristown running the local Gan Yisroel.
A 25-year-old Queens man was stabbed to death in a stairwell of Albany Houses in Crown Heights last night, police said.
Avrumy Cagen (Houston, Texas) and Yehudis Cohen (Toronto, Ont)
Ari Mochkin (Melbourne, Australia) and Mushkie Weiss (Los Angeles, CA)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Two days after American surfer Daniel Bobis vanished beneath the waves off western Indonesia, his family is urging people to pray for the 32-year-old’s safe return.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Yesterday, a Crown Heights man surrendered himself to authorities after a number of victims came forward and accused him abuse spanning a number of years.
The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday it is mulling the closure of thousands of post offices nationwide, including dozens here in the city.
“An event like this is so beyond the scope of life – so, so foreign, that it will probably take some time to recover.” Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm, Director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center in Oslo, Norway told the Algemeiner on Tuesday afternoon.
Believing that modern technology can be harnessed to create an atmosphere imbedded with holiness and beneficent human values, Chabad-Lubavitch schools, aided by the Judaism website Chabad.org, are working diligently to ensure that cyberspace continues to be a safe place for their students and teaching staff.
A Washington federal judge granted Chabad-Lubavitch permission Tuesday morning to execute a judgment against the Russian Federation for the return of thousands of religious texts seized in the early 20th century.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority has long been planning to bring cell phone and WiFi service to New York City subways.
Shua and Muki (nee Simpson) Rivkin (Crown Heights)
In May 2010, Jacob Lefkowitz received a kidney donation that changed his life. He was on dialysis, going from state to state to get on lists for a donation, but the wait was long – about 10 years in New York alone. But thanks to Renewal, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that acts as a comprehensive resource for kidney donors and potential recipients within the Jewish community, the Manhattan resident received a kidney in just six months. He’s since returned to work and good health.
Hundreds of Israeli doctors spent the night in Kfar Chabad on their way to Yerushalayim. They are participating in a country-wide protest march which began in Ramat Gan. They are planning to set up a protest tent opposite the government complex in the capital.
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