
10th Annual Chag HaSmicha in Los Angeles
This past week saw the 10th annual Chag HaSmicha for the new rabbis of Kollel Tiferet Menachem – Los Angeles at Moshe Ganz hall B”H.
This past week saw the 10th annual Chag HaSmicha for the new rabbis of Kollel Tiferet Menachem – Los Angeles at Moshe Ganz hall B”H.
Rivka Goldman couldn’t sleep last night, the putrid smell of smoke seeping into her house in Los Alamos, where a raging wildfire that in the space of a day has consumed more than 44,000 acres led authorities to order the evacuation of the New Mexico town. Goldman and her husband packed up and boarded a plane for Chicago today to visit their daughter.
Recently, Anash of Los Angeles, CA gathered at Cheder Menachem, the Chabad Elementary boy’s school for their 7th annual Chayolei Tzivos Hashem Grand Expo.
Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman puts down the phone, leans across his desk in Peabody, Massachusetts, and smiles. “The Alter Rebbe said men darf lebben mit der tzeit. I think we’re taking that from catchphrase to reality.”
The first of the boy camp busses rolled out of Crown Heights Monday Night. CGI Montreal campers drive all night from Brooklyn to the camp in Montreal; kicking off the summer camp months!
Shua and Estee (nee Shapiro) Lurie (Montreal, Canada)
Moishe and Rochie Liberow (Monsey, NY)
Michoel Rose (Manchester, UK) and Aidele Shkedi (Scranton, PA)
Yanky Borenstein (Crown Heights) and Ahuva Rivkin (Crown Heights)
The European Parliament hosted a somewhat different group of men in suits last week, when over 100 European rabbis attended discussions under the banner “Is Multiculturalism Sustainable in 21st-Century Europe?” The talks were part of a two-day conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE), an organization representing over 700 European rabbis. In attendance were also Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger and Religious Affairs Minister Ya’acov Margi.
Ganeinu, a Chabad-Lubavitch run Early Childhood Development Center in Jacksonville, Fla., was designated as an “Eco-Healthy” center by the National EHCC – Eco-Healthy Child Care Agency for meeting at least 25 environmental standards.
City Hall has decided that New York is too confusing. In an effort to redirect wayward pedestrians, the city’s Department of Transportation is looking for a contractor to set up a new signage system in four different neighborhoods to tell people where they are and where they might go from here.
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat Evergreen Produce brand alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts because they may be linked to 20 cases of salmonella poisoning.
You want a wild ride? Come to Brooklyn! Borough motorists are wildly violating the city’s vehicular traffic rules, according to stunning traffic data released by the NYPD this week.
Tonight at 9:30 PM, will be the first of 5 weekly Global Achdus Teleconference Calls in the merit of Sholom Rubashkin. This is the first time such an initiative has ever taken place.
Three rabbinical students set off on a cross-country bike ride on Sunday morning, the first part of their journey a testament to the true meaning of friendship. On the track of Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston, 100 special needs cyclists joined them to raise awareness for the Friendship Circle.