Video: NYPD Blows Up Confiscated Fireworks

Huffington Post

The 4th of July is a special holiday weekend for all Americans, but perhaps more so for the NYPD bomb squad. That’s because each year they get to blow up all the fireworks the department has confiscated in a grand, fiery spectacle.

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Are You Having a Hard Time Motivating Your Campers?

After three years of successful programming in Chabad schools worldwide, Tzivos Hashem constantly get requests from shluchim to use the Chayolai Tzivos Hashem program in camps and Hebrew schools. This year ten camps are eagerly piloting the new system.

Dodgers Coming Back to Brooklyn? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Journal Inquirer

With the Los Angeles Dodgers filing for reorganizational bankruptcy, some people, encouraged particularly by the New York Sun, are musing about returning the baseball team to Brooklyn, where it was central to the identity of the working-class borough, smashed racism with the hiring of Jackie Robinson and other great black players, and contributed the best part of the golden age of New York baseball.

Inspiration for 3 Tammuz

With Gimmel Tammuz coming, many of us are searching for ways in which we can prepare ourselves for the day. In the newest edition of the JEM Farbrengen Club, viewers can receive inspiration directly from the Rebbe.

Daily Kosher Meals Coming to University of Florida

University of Florida undergrads enjoy a kosher meal at the Tabacinic Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center in Gainesville.

An 18-wheeler semi frequently pulls up in front of the Tabacinic Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student & Community Center at the University of Florida, delivering massive amounts of kosher food. During the school year, Rabbi Berl and Chanie Goldman serve upwards of 400 students for Sabbath dinner – that number drops to about 150 each week during the summer – and their weekly Café Chabad draws between 30 and 60 students every Tuesday night.

Working and Still Getting Unemployment Benefits? The Feds are Coming After You

AP

A nationwide crackdown is coming for people fraudulently drawing unemployment payments — those who were never eligible and workers who keep getting checks after they return to work — a $17 billion benefits swindle last year alone, say federal officials.