New Engagement!
Eli Leib Rubin (Edgeware, UK) and Miri Kudan (Hollywood, FL)
L’chaim will be Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
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A group of public school children gathered on East New York and Albany Ave. in Crown Heights to protest mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget, which includes funding cuts to the after school program. A Crownheights.info reporter was at the scene.
Video: Public School Children Protest Budget Cuts
A group of public school children gathered on East New York and Albany Ave. in Crown Heights to protest mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s budget, which includes funding cuts to the after school program. A Crownheights.info reporter was at the scene.
Wounded Female IDF Soldiers Honored with VIP Trip
Gender issues and the woman’s role in Jewish culture is a hot topic in Israel’s media, but for one group of women on a dream ten-day trip to NYC hosted by Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side and accompanied by Chabad Terror Victims Project, it’s a non-issue.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic, the Migadef: Who was he? What did he do? What can we learn from the story?
Shabbos at the Besht: The Blasphemer
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic, the Migadef: Who was he? What did he do? What can we learn from the story?
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Mendy and Miriam (nee Andrusier) Rosler
408 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Michy and Shainy Marosov
467 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Mendel and Friady Sufrin
1339 Union St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Tzali and Rochel Laufer
1468 Union St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yaakov and Shaindel (nee Keselman) Siev
Jews Parade with Pride Down Kharkov’s Streets
Despite the fact that Lag Ba’omer fell out on a workday, hundreds of Kharkov Jews were able to proudly parade down the busy main streets of Kharkov – Pushkinskaya and Sumskaya St.
Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic - coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.
French Students Get Boost of Jewish Life in UK
Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic – coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.
Photos: Lag Ba’omer on the River Thames
Cheering, dancing, laughing… as the Golden Flame cruised along the River Thames, the girls of Lubavitch Senior School in London were entertained and amused by a fantastic series of games and challenges, and of course extremely lively dancing!
Photos: Lag Ba’omer Parade, Bonfire in Wilkes-Barre
The Jewish community in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania had their own Lag Ba’omer Parade and Bonfire, arranged by Yeshiva Beis Menachem in conjunction with Cheder Menachem, the local day school, and Cong. Ohev Tzedek.
New Engagement!
Ron David Hershcopf (Windsor, CT) and Minna Chava Caplan (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Yaakov and Chaya (nee Kotlarsky) Wilansky (Crown Heights)
Tories Overrule Officials to Fund Chabad Project
The Conservative government overruled federal bureaucrats and gave $1-million to a social hall project submitted by an Ottawa rabbi with close ties to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
Hidden in this brief clip from a show on the Canadian City TV Channel is something that most Lubavitchers - and perhaps New Yorkers - would consider a familiar sight. Can you spot it?
Video of the Day: Familiar Sight on NYC’s Streets
Hidden in this brief clip from a show on the Canadian City TV Channel is something that most Lubavitchers – and perhaps New Yorkers – would consider a familiar sight. Can you spot it?
Photos: Lag Ba’omer in Tasmania
Lag Ba’omer was celebrated for the very first time in northern Tasmania, an island south of Australia, in a town called Jackey’s Marsh.
Google Inc. has cleared a major road block in its quest to introduce self-driving cars to the roads of the world.
Coming Sooner than You Think: Driverless Cars
Google Inc. has cleared a major road block in its quest to introduce self-driving cars to the roads of the world.
For the first time since the municipal government replaced a memorial to the World War II slaughter of 27,000 local Jews with a separate installation that mentioned neither Jews nor the Holocaust, Jewish community officials in Rostov-on-Don joined Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Barada in persuading regional Gov. Vassily Golubov to erect a more ethnically-sensitive plaque.
Rostov Gov. Considers Revamping Holocaust Memorial
For the first time since the municipal government replaced a memorial to the World War II slaughter of 27,000 local Jews with a separate installation that mentioned neither Jews nor the Holocaust, Jewish community officials in Rostov-on-Don joined Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia president Alexander Barada in persuading regional Gov. Vassily Golubov to erect a more ethnically-sensitive plaque.
