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.
A video detailing the unique niche Yeshivas Tzeirei Hashluchim fills among the children of Shluchim was shown at their 13th anniversary gala dinner.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish man sitting in his car waiting for someone had his world suddenly rocked when his minivan was struck from behind. Eyewitnesses said that the driver that caused all the wreckage got out of his car and fled the scene.
Bay Area medical professionals and clerics have mobilized against attempts by a local anti-circumcision group to enact a citywide ban against the practice. If activists have their way in municipal elections this November, when voters will be asked to vote on the measure, circumcision of a boy under the age of 18 years of age for religious reasons would be classified as a misdemeanor and punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Meir and Hadassah Geisinsky (Cedarhurst, NY)
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