Once lit, a single candle can be used ignite other lights in an endless number of places. But without that initial spark, that same candle cannot light even the smallest space.
Shlomo Nadtochy ( Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) and Liora Alter (Toronto, Canada)
In recent months the drama over the election of Rabbi Yosef Braun along with the deceptions therein has been little discussed in the public. Despite the silence, however, the matter is far from resolved. In a collection of fiery letters obtained by CrownHeights.info between the parties involved, serious disrespect and contention highlight a division more serious then ever before.
Drivers in Brooklyn will have to dig a little deeper into their pockets starting Tuesday.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two young teenagers walked into Sterling Electronics this afternoon with the intention of ripping them off, only the sharp eyed store workers spotted them stuffing their pockets with electronics and called Shomrim.
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter, MySpace and Facebook.
After four summers traveling the Midwest, the pair of Roving Rabbis have become accustomed to being mistaken for Amish, or Mennonites, or in the Dakotas, Hutterites.
A conservative synagogue and its senior rabbi touched off a heated discussion after Rabbi Alan Green and Shaarey Zedek introduced a proposal to bring interfaith burials into its cemetery. Local Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Altein along with several other community members with family buried at the cemetery took issue with this proposal, and Rabbi Greens contention that the “time has come to “embrace” intermarriage”.
A Hasidic singer will release Wednesday a tribute song and music video featuring home movies of a slain 8-year-old Brooklyn boy.
HOUSTON, TX [CHI] — In Houston for Shabbos, the Bike 4 Friendship cyclists met with Head Shliach to the state of Texas, Rabbi Shimon Lazaroff at an event Sunday Morning. A city proclamation from Mayor Annise Parker, acknowledging the bike team and their educational efforts, was read to the crowd.
The FBI has launched a new app, its first mobile application, for parents to store and access pictures and other vital information about their children in case they ever go missing.
An Australian environmental justice’s decision to invalidate some rezoning plans in New South Wales has downgraded Jewish institution’s property values, in some cases by millions of dollars.
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The man suspected of abducting and killing an 8-year-old boy who was walking home from day camp has been moved to Rikers Island and is on suicide watch, NBC New York has confirmed.
While some Jews in London marked Tisha b’Av on Tuesday by lamenting the burning of the Holy Temples on that day some two millennia ago, other London Jews watched as their city burned amid widespread rioting.
Binyomin Abrams isn’t your typical university instructor.
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