From Oholei Torah’s marching band, to Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s float, From NCFJE’s headquarters to 770, hundreds of volunteers have been putting in thousands of hours in preparation for the upcoming Lag BaOmer Parade this Sunday.
Nasoniel Nerenberg (Oak Park, MI) and Nechama Yaffee (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Shep Cutler feels good about helping put Columbia’s Chabad-Lubavitch of South Carolina on the map. He and his wife Joni donated $125,000 toward the establishment of a new synagogue, a permanent home for a community that has been renting space at an area country club for the past 10 years.
Moments before President Obama was due to deliver his major Middle East policy address today, Algemeiner director Dovid Efune spoke on Fox News live about the origins of the Arab Israeli conflict, why territorial concessions would endanger lives, the Arab phased plan and the dangers of the positions taken by the Obama administration.
WASHINGTON — Seeking to harness the seismic political change still unfolding in the Arab world, President Obama for the first time on Thursday publicly called for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would create a non-militarized Palestinian state on the basis of Israel’s borders before 1967.
One of eight living participants of the 1943 revolt at the infamous Sobibor extermination camp shared his story of escape and survival with locals at the Chabad-Lubavitch Center of Sudbury, Mass.
Measuring an imposing 75 feet by 30 feet, the new and updated sign replaces the signs that graced the parade from past years. Yitzy Vail together with a group of volunteers put up the sign this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming parade this Sunday.
Yesterday evening, Pesach Sheni, more than 400 women attended a Chinese Auction event honoring Mrs. Leah Rubashkin at the Ateres Charna Ballroom near Monsey.
The Lag B’Omer Parade in LA is excited to announce that they have secured the services of “Charlie Buttons”.
A CrownHeights.info fan sent us these pictures of brothers Baruch and Shalom Kalmanson learning with the French Twins in 770 earlier today.
Ari and Chanie (nee Karp) Greenwald (Crown Heights)
Sruly and Penina Meyer (Crown Heights)
Two men from the organization Jews United Against Zionism, also known as Neturei Karta, spent Shabbos in Iran to attend the International conference on Global Alliance against Terrorism for a Just Peace in Tehran. The two men wearing traditional Chasidic clothing are U.S. Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, of Rockland County, and Canadian Rabbi Yeshaye Rosenberg. On Sunday both of them met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Don’t you just hate wasting time waiting in line? The Great Parade knows how important your time is, so tickets for the fair are now available to purchase online.
Bowing to pressure from the City Council, the Bloomberg administration released Wednesday a draft list of the 20 fire companies facing closure this year.
Motzai Shabbos, the 17 of Iyar 10:00 pm, a special Kinus marking the first yartzeit of Hatomim Nosson Deitsch OBM, at the Oholei Torah Zal on Eastern Parkway.
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