Have you ever been to Dagan’s Pizza before? If yes, then you surely know Mel the pizza man, and he is in Crown Heights for the day working in Kingston Pizza. Also behind the counter was Avi, the owner of Dagan’s Pizza who is now a partner in the Kingston shop as well.
Rabbi Hassan, the Lag B’Omer marching band instructor, asked the boys to practice in their free time. They did just that during their recess, using their desks, a garbage pail and water bottle!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A woman was injured after she was struck by a minivan on Eastern Parkway. The vehicle stopped briefly, and then fled the scene.
It’s 7pm on a Monday night, and Darchai Menachem is buzzing. Hours after the students are usually long gone, there are scores of boys covering two floors and three rooms, sawing wood, drilling planks together and painting boards. It’s five short days before Lag Ba’omer and staff and students are hard at work on the Darchai Menachem float.
We are pleased to present our Forty Ninth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Today, Yud Gimmel Iyar, marks the yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib,OBM, the brother of the Rebbe. Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib was born in Nikolaev on the 16th of Sivan, 5669. That same year, the family moved to Yekatrinaslav, as Rabbi Levi Yitzchok took up the position of Rov of the city. He was known as a genius and child prodigy, and was famous for his diligence.
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, an immigrant from the Soviet Union who, as chairman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, spearheaded many educational campaigns instituted by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 84.
Reiterating his promise to keep in better touch with the community, Yossi Hackner wrote a ‘tell-all’ style letter which he titled ‘a cry for help,’ in which he laments the lack of any real change, Rabonim still fighting, and being promised funds and assistance which never came. He concludes with an appeal for the desperately needed money to pay the Rabonim.
Levi Yusewitz (Crown Heights) and Rivky Levin (Kensington, NY)
Commuters face major disruptions Tuesday morning following a derailment of a work train at the Dekalb Avenue Station.
Bracha Leah Sassonkin’s front door stands just over 300 feet from Israel’s border with Lebanon. The view she had yesterday of the attempt by Palestinians pouring out of buses trying to breach Israel’s border was too close for comfort.
Students from across Russia gathered in Rostov for a weekend Chabad-Lubavitch run program designed to foster Jewish pride and strengthen participants’ connections to their heritage.
DES MOINES, IA [AP] — A hearing seeking a new trial for a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive convicted of financial fraud is scheduled before the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
This will be the century of disasters. In the same way that the 20th century was the century of world wars, genocide, and grinding ideological conflict, the 21st will be the century of natural disasters and technological crises and unholy combinations of the two.
Schneur Zalman Borenstein (Crown Heights) and Mushkie Bronstein (Andover, MA)
Kids, join the fun! Send a photo or design of an original poster you will be holding at The Great Lag B’Omer Parade, or a poster promoting The Great Parade. Viewers the world over will vote on their favorites.
One out of every ten Americans is addicted to something, and chances are that every person reading this article knows someone first hand who is struggling with some form of addiction: substance, alcohol, internet, or otherwise.
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