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’ Levi Yitzchak Gemilas Chassadim interest free loans fund gathered Wednesday for a kumzitz with Jerusalem musician Chaim Dovid.
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.
As soon as I heard one of the Guardian Angels yell, “Fight! Fight!” I knew our nice, quiet patrol of Coney Island was over.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mendel abd Gutey (nee Brashevitzky) Engel (Crown Heights)
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.
Palestinian rocket attacks sent Israelis in the coastal city of Ashdod rushing to bomb shelters Friday night just before the onset of the Jewish Sabbath.
Continuing season two of Torah in Ten, we are pleased to present the seventh class by Rabbi Chaim Miller, Editor-in-Chief of Kol Menachem on this week’s topic, “The Rebbe on Modernity”.
The United Nations will not condemn as “terrorism” the attacks near Eilat in which eight Israelis were murdered after Lebanon’s representative rejected the measure.
While 10 people were injured after a Grad rocket hit an Ashdod yeshiva’s courtyard, a much bigger disaster was averted just several blocks away. A rocket which landed near a synagogue where several worshippers prayed failed to explode on Friday.
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