New South Wales, Australia — State legislative leaders from both the majority and opposition parties unveiled a permanent display for the Parliament of New South Wales’ prized silver Chanukah menorah.
Gunmen abducted an American Jew after breaking into his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in an unusually brazen raid that illustrated the threat to foreigners in this militancy-wracked, US-allied country.
Zalmy Pinson (Crown Heights) and Esther Leah Munitz (Monsey, NY)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the sixth class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on Graphology”.
Levi Blizinsky (Crown Heights) and Menucha Wisnefsky (Jerusalem, Israel)
As former New York Gov. Hugh Carey was being interred Thursday in Shelter Island, Rabbi Yisroel Rubin recalled the man as an effectual leader whose dedication to the citizens of the Empire State served as a lesson in public service.
After 10 months of learning two hours a week at their local Chabad houses, 120 students from throughout Brazil, including Bahia, Recife, Belem, Manaus, Tocatins, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, embarked on an inspiring trip through Southern Europe.
Featured on the religeon page of the Huffington Post: Aug. 9 this year marks the saddest day on the Jewish calendar (Tisha b’Av) when the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. But however much the Jews have been battered throughout history, they always seemed to bounce back. Here are the seven most powerful ideas in Judaism that have catalyzed Jewish renewal, time and time again. I’ll teach you how you can apply them to your life.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a five-step plan on Wednesday to update the technology that powers the 911 emergency response system.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos the Rebbe talking with Rabbi Pupko in the front of 770.
Several City Council members who bankroll volunteer patrol groups in Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods with their discretionary funds say they will continue to do so amid some recent criticism of how such groups operate.
A new video from Jewish.TV features expert mechanech, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, along with Tenafly Chief of Police, Michael P. Bruno, answering parents’ questions about how to protect their children from predators.
Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
860 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yossel and Mushka Gerlitzky
313 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Mendy and Nechama (nee Baras) Minsky
510 Crown St Apt 3E [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
A family of four from Florida visiting relatives in New Jersey got an unwelcome surprise at the Customs gate — all because of some forgotten fruit and vegetables.
In the spring of 1956, faculty of the central Chabad-Lubavitch grade-school yeshiva in New York, including its dean, Rabbi Chaim Meir Bukiet, sought a solution to the distinctly modern problem of summer vacation: They had no place to send their students to continue their studies during the summer months.
