Solar energy pioneer Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka, who held patents for 56 of his inventions and was known for his passion and optimism in finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels, passed away Sunday at the age of 75.
Yossi and Chanie Garelik (Crown Heights)
Simmy and Shoshe (nee Wudowsky) Ben-Abou (Crown Heights)
Avremi and Rochie (nee Chayo) Orimland (Crown Heights)
A bill raising fines for taxi drivers who unlawfully overcharge or refuse to take passengers to a destination in the five boroughs has passed the City Council.
It was a hair’s breadth escape by a woman from a bank robbery suspect in northern New Jersey last week.
Pacey Lipkind (Crown Heights) and Rivkah Shira Francis (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
A Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband were executed in Iran for undisclosed reasons, a top State Department official said.
Levi Galperin (Chicago/Detroit) and Mussie Silver (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tomorrow, Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Henya Shusterman OBM, wife of Reb Mordechai AH who was the Rebbes Baal Korah, and long time Crown Heights resident.
She is survived by her children Laya Klein (Crown Heights), Miriam Nemanov (Crown Heights), Faigy Wolf (Nachlas Har Chabad), Gershon Shusterman (Long Beach, CA), Zisel Gurevitch (Crown Heights), as well as many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, dean of the Central Lubavitcher Yeshivah in Brooklyn, and a senior member of Chabad’s central leadership, passed away yesterday, Tuesday, May 10 after a lengthy illness. He was 84.
“They say 20,000, and I say where?” tour guide Claudia Kravetz says of Chile’s Jewish population as we drive through the intersection of Las Condes and La Dehesa streets in Santiago’s Lo Barnechea neighborhood. With its wide, palm-tree-lined boulevards, reminiscent of Los Angeles, the area is nicknamed Little Israel for its concentration of synagogues.
The Aliya Youth center located in Crown Heights,Brooklyn. Open for nine years, the center serves as a support system, for troubled Jewish teenage boys that fall through the cracks of the Lubavitcher Hasidic Jew community.
Mendel and Kayla Feldman (Crown Heights)
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