Libyan Regime Collapses
Haaretz
Libyan rebels have captured two of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s sons, and his presidential guard has surrendered, said the rebel National Transitional Council.
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Sun, Surf and Shabbos on Spain’s Sun Coast
A Jewish concert sponsored by Chabad drew 2000 people to a bullring in Estepona last week.
For the kosher traveler, vacationing often requires more careful packing and planning. Outside of well traveled Jewish destinations, kosher restaurants—prevalent and popular as they are—are still few and far between. And staples like glatt kosher chicken, meat, and even dairy products (of strict kosher certification standards) are not readily available in local supermarkets.
Residents of Be'er Sheva documented events in their city Saturday as Hamas launched a large-scale attack, with rockets raining down upon the city. The Iron Dome system's intervention was also caught on film.
Videos: Be’er Sheva Residents Document Missile Attack
Residents of Be’er Sheva documented events in their city Saturday as Hamas launched a large-scale attack, with rockets raining down upon the city. The Iron Dome system’s intervention was also caught on film.
Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, but residents of the neighborhood are coming together to celebrate how far they’ve come.
Community Marks 20th Anniversary of CH Riots
Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, but residents of the neighborhood are coming together to celebrate how far they’ve come.
NY1
Officials from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs are warning shoppers to keep their eyes peeled at checkout.
City Proposes “Shop Act” To Combat Overcharging
NY1
Officials from the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs are warning shoppers to keep their eyes peeled at checkout.
Conejo Valley in Spiritual Bloom
Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Artist’s rendering of the new Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Agoura Hills, opening September 2011.
One year after they opened Chabad of Agoura Hills in 1986, Chabad officials decided to hold a Chanukah festival at an Agoura Hills mall. They put up a menorah and, soon thereafter, received an anonymous phone call demanding its removal.
Friends of Chabad Five Towns Have Kumzitz
Friends of Chabad Five Towns’ Levi Yitzchak Gemilas Chassadim interest free loans fund gathered Wednesday for a kumzitz with Jerusalem musician Chaim Dovid.
Amidst ’91 Coup, Russian Jewry Kept Summer Camps Open
Children and their counselors pose for a group photo at a Chabad-Lubavitch run summer camp outside Moscow in the early 1990s.
As the world watched hard-line Communists make their last-ditch effort 20 years ago to reclaim control of the fracturing Soviet Union, a young Rabbi Berel Lazar was due to return to Moscow. Lazar, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was then rabbi of the Russian capital’s Marina Roscha district, had been in New York attending to his wife and newborn baby. The August coup of 1991 – known popularly as the Putsch – began a day before their scheduled return.
A Night with Sliwa’s Posse of Crime-fighting, Neighborhood Heroes
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and Daily News reporter Mark Morales patrolled through Coney Island on June 10, 2011.
As soon as I heard one of the Guardian Angels yell, “Fight! Fight!” I knew our nice, quiet patrol of Coney Island was over.
Daily News
The Rev. Al Sharpton joins black demonstrators marching in protest after days of rioting in Crown Heights in 1991.
Twenty years after the Crown Heights riots, the city has grown, and I believe I have grown. I'd like to share a few of my reflections about the choices I made, including the mistakes, with an eye toward advancing racial understanding and harmony.
Al Sharpton Defends Himself in Daily News Op-Ed, Refuses to Apologize
Daily News
The Rev. Al Sharpton joins black demonstrators marching in protest after days of rioting in Crown Heights in 1991.
Twenty years after the Crown Heights riots, the city has grown, and I believe I have grown. I’d like to share a few of my reflections about the choices I made, including the mistakes, with an eye toward advancing racial understanding and harmony.
CBS, ABC 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.
Video: Days 1 and 2 of the Crown Heights Riots
CBS, ABC 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.
Photos: Evergreen Hosts MBD for Exclusive Kumzitz
LOCH SHELDRAKE, NY [CHI] — After spending an uplifting and farbrengen filled Shabbos the residents of Evergreen Estates were treated to an exclusive Kumzitz style performed from Mordechai Ben David accompanied by a full band.
Over 800 Attend Jewish Retreat in Old Greenwich
Greenwich Time
People listen to David Nesenoff’s lecture, “To Catch an Anti-Semite” at the sixth annual National Jewish Retreat, hosted by the Chabad-Lubavitch Rohr Jewish Learning Institute at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich.
As the smell of Kosher cooking wafted from the hallway, a silent audience sat captivated while political pundits Mark Mellman and William Kristol, a frequent commentator on Fox News, joined Rabbi Levei Shemtov at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich to discuss the effect of American news on the Jewish community.
PA Approves $1.50 Increase for E-ZPass Drivers
NY Daily News
The Port Authority, its proposed huge toll hikes dialed down by Govs. Cuomo and Christie, approved an increase Friday of $1.50 for E-ZPass drivers beginning next month. The PA board unanimously voted yes on the proposal following a 60-minute meeting largely devoid of drama or disgust. The new prices are effective Sept. 18.
Baby Girl!
Mendel abd Gutey (nee Brashevitzky) Engel (Crown Heights)
NYC Food Stamps Soda Ban Struck Down
NY Post
Mayor Bloomberg’s having a hard time swallowing this one. The feds yesterday rejected his attempt to get soda and other sugary drinks banned from the list of products one can buy in New York with food stamps.
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