Two weeks ago, Tal Cohen of Kiryat Bialik stood before the Torah and uttered the words common to bar mitzvah boys around the world. For Tal, whose speech and learned abilities lag far behind due to pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), it was an uncommon accomplishment.
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New York — The efforts of three trailblazing young rabbis were recognized by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who issued an official proclamation yesterday declaring July 6, 2011 to be “Bike 4 Friendship Day.” The proclamation pays tribute to Bike 4 Friendship, the cross-country fundraising and awareness bike tour for the Friendship Circle.
Some 1000 people from all walks of life gathered at Chabad of the Valley Headquarters in Tarzana on Tuesday evening, Gimmel Tammuz, to observe the 17th Yahrzeit–Hilulah of the Rebbe. A full meal was served.
Manny Waks’s behaviour started to change part-way through his schooling at Yeshivah College. ”I wasn’t listening to the teachers and was getting into trouble,” Mr. Waks says.
An off duty FDNY firefighter was struck and seriously injured in a Wednesday evening smashup on Eastern Parkway. Eyewitnesses said that he flipped off his motorcycle multiple times, and came to rest some 300 feet from his bike in the opposite traffic lane.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Shmuel Lewis OBM of Kfar Chabad at the age of 58.
He is survived by his wife Shainda; children Dina Goldshmid (Crown Heights), Yehudis Mitnitzky (Crown Heights), Rabbi Matisyahu Lewis (Baku, Azerbaijan), Rochel Yemini (Los Angeles, CA), Chana Raskin (Beijing, China), Michal Levitin (Lod, Israel), Mendy Lewis (Kfar Chabad), Levi and Davidi. He is also survived by his mother Ettel Lewis (Jerusalem, Israel), and siblings Yonoson Lewis (Crown Heights), and Chaya Rappaport (Jerusalem, Israel).
State environmental officials are trying to nip a huge, dangerous plant in the bud.
On Gimmel Tammuz there was a Siyum Sefer Torah held for a Torah written in memory of Rabbi Tzvi Yosef Kotlarsky OBM by his children and grandchildren in conjunction with Chabad of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Friendship Circle International personnel from across the United States and Canada descended on the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, Mich., for the chance to inspire one another and strengthen efforts to increase awareness and acceptance of children with special needs.
NORWALK, CT — More than 150 Torah educators from across the US, and from as far away as, Melbourne, Australia, Moscow, Russia, and S. Paulo Brazil, convened at the Dolce Conference Center in southern Connecticut earlier this week for a two-day conference on education.
Berel Hassan (Wesley Hills, NY) and Shternie Stock (Crown Heights)
Duty-free shops were once a hidden gem in airports, with the best deals a country could offer.
Lubavitch on the Palisades is preparing to seek expansion approvals, and history shows it’s gotten the routine down seamlessly, from passing municipal reviews to communicating with the community.
Shmuel and Raizel (nee Babushkin) Stange (Montreal, Canada)
Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday.
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