Running in the annual Golani Brigades run across Israel, Crown Heights Bochur Shalom Lakein, who is a ‘lone soldier’, explains what the run is about and why he choose to volunteer in the Israeli Defense Force.
Someone will get $18,000 richer tonight at the Hatzalah Raffle Drawing, taking place tonight at Lubavitcher Yeshiva at 8:00pm. At the event there will be a light buffet and door prizes for all. Come and show your support for the Hatzalah volunteers.
In what has become an annual tradition for Rabbi Borenstein’s eighth grade class, they all got together in the backyard of his Balfore Place home for a Siyum and a barbeque.
Trying to make Tefilla interesting and inspiring to children is a challenge all mosdos chinuch face, most often leading to frustration. A chinuch day opens with Tefilla because it is essential that a child learns that that Tefilla is the way a Jewish day begins.
Marty Markowitz is “strongly considering” a run for mayor in 2013, sources close to the Brooklyn borough president told The Post.
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A middle-income family could spend an average of $226,920 to raise a child born in 2010 to the age of 18, the US Department of Agriculture reported yesterday.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced he will introduce new legislation that will crack down on drivers caught using a portable electronic device including Blackberrys, iPhones, iPads, laptop computers, gaming devices and any other portable device, or talking on a cell phone without a hands free device, while driving.
Writing a thumbnail biography on Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky is no small challenge, at least if one follows the rabbi’s own guidelines. By his own definition, the rabbi is not a leader, though he is the primary figure responsible for running the remarkably extensive Chabad-Lubavitch international network of slichim, or emissaries.
At 1:30 p.m. this Wednesday, June 15th, in the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, an appeal will be argued before three judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in one of the most bitterly contested and controversial criminal trials in many years.
Uri Cohen (London/Miami) and Chana Zeidman (Raleigh, NC/Crown Heights)
Lipa Benjaminson (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Gansburg (Coconut Creek, FL)
L’Chaim Tonight at 647 Montgomery Street
Uri Cohen (London/Miami) and Chana Zeidman (Raleigh, NC/Crown Heights)
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
The Bloomberg administration is seeking state approval to install cameras on some of the Sanitation Department’s street cleaners in a pilot program aimed at taking the burden off traffic agents in enforcing alternate-side parking rules.
Yankel and Looly (Nee Majerczyk) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Daniel Dorn (Los Angeles) and Mollie Lorberbaum (Amherst, MA/ Crown Heights)
Baltimore’s former Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Weber is settling in Monsey to open a new Zal with Rabbi Simcha Werner. He’s bringing along a young Mashpia and Magid Shiur.
In Dnepropetrovsk for his grandson’s wedding, Merkos Chairman Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky and guests visited the Menorah Center and other Jewish institutions headed by Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky.
On its own, Brooklyn would be the nation’s fourth largest city. The U.S. Cenus Bureau says there are 2.5 million residents here, but borough officials say the figure is closer to 2.6 million.
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