Photos: ESU Animal Control
After doing their tree cutting service the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit changed into their animal control uniforms to capture yet another raccoon on President Street.
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Photos: ESU Tree Cutting Service
Emergency Service officers were hard at work this morning cutting up a massive tree limb which collapsed on the corner of Crown Street and Brooklyn Avenue. Thankfully no one was hurt, and there was no damage to property when it fell.
The Super Large Tefilla-Shel-Rosh by 7th Grade ULY
7th grade of Lubavitcher Yeshiva marched at the Great Parade with a Tefilla-Shel-Rosh almost big enough to fit Og Melech Habashan – Here, just days later the students bunched together for a class picture with their oversized Tefilla-Shel-Rosh.
Des Moines Register
The court schedule of a federal judge who faces allegations of bias in the financial fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin has raised fresh questions about judicial impartiality.
New Questions Surface About Judge Reade
Des Moines Register
The court schedule of a federal judge who faces allegations of bias in the financial fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin has raised fresh questions about judicial impartiality.
Chabad of Mineola Awards LI Teens
“Hero Intern” Daniel Hernandez and “Chocolate Thunder Darryl Dawkins” joined Rabbi Perl at Mineola Chabad’s 18th Annual Good Deeds Awards for LI Teenagers
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe": Every year before Shavuos the Rebbe would give a special sicha to women.
Weekly Video: Torah Scholarship – Not for Men Only
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: Every year before Shavuos the Rebbe would give a special sicha to women.
New Engagement!
Yossy Weiss (Pittsburgh, PA) and Yittie Bayzman (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Groceries in NYC Are Cheaper than Most of the U.S.
WABC
This may be tough to swallow, but a study by economists at Columbia University shows that groceries in New York City are actually cheaper than in other parts of the country.
by Boruch Sholom Wolf
Binyamin Netanyahu speaking before congress.
There was a great buzz of excitement when it was announced that Netanyahu had been invited to deliver an address before the entire congress. It was to be his second congressional address since he was first invited 15 years ago. On the evening following his address, I was told by a friend that it was one of the greatest speeches he’d heard in his life, featuring 29 standing ovations. I eagerly went to watch the speech, anticipating a great rebuttal to Obama’s pressure on Israel to give away our G-d given land to the Arabs. To my sorrow, it was anything but.
Op-Ed: Have We Lost It?
by Boruch Sholom Wolf
Binyamin Netanyahu speaking before congress.
There was a great buzz of excitement when it was announced that Netanyahu had been invited to deliver an address before the entire congress. It was to be his second congressional address since he was first invited 15 years ago. On the evening following his address, I was told by a friend that it was one of the greatest speeches he’d heard in his life, featuring 29 standing ovations. I eagerly went to watch the speech, anticipating a great rebuttal to Obama’s pressure on Israel to give away our G-d given land to the Arabs. To my sorrow, it was anything but.
Chabad of Highland Mills Celebrates Mother’s day
The Chronicle
Top left and right: Highland Mills Chabad Hebrew School’s Mother’s Day Program. Bottom left: Marching with Rabbi Pesach Burston at the Great Parade.
Highland Mills, NY Chabad Hebrew School recently hosted a program in honor of Mother’s Day.
Leicester Mercury
Illustration Photo
A rabbi's home has been targeted in a series of suspected anti-Semitic attacks. Rocks have been thrown through the windows of Rabbi Shmuli Pink's house in Leicester, where he lives with his wife Rivkie and their seven children.
UK Shliach’s Home the Target of Anti-Semitic Attack
Leicester Mercury
Illustration Photo
A rabbi’s home has been targeted in a series of suspected anti-Semitic attacks. Rocks have been thrown through the windows of Rabbi Shmuli Pink’s house in Leicester, where he lives with his wife Rivkie and their seven children.
Every Friday as the sun sets across the earth, Jewish women light a candle or two and surround the planet with a ring of light. It's an auspicious time to request blessings for good health, for ample livelihood, and for children whose good deeds will light up the world. It is an opportunity to connect to the transcendent power of your soul, and to envision an era filled with true peace, joy and tranquility.
JLI Video: Shabbat Candle Lighting Meditation
Every Friday as the sun sets across the earth, Jewish women light a candle or two and surround the planet with a ring of light. It’s an auspicious time to request blessings for good health, for ample livelihood, and for children whose good deeds will light up the world. It is an opportunity to connect to the transcendent power of your soul, and to envision an era filled with true peace, joy and tranquility.
Crown Heights Donates Over $30k
CROWN HEIGHTS — Each day that passes brings a rising awareness to the case of Sholom Rubashkin in the Crown Heights community. The response has been more doors opened, and more money raised for his cause. Thursday evening Sholom Across America volunteers raised almost $12,000, bringing the Crown Heights total to more than $30,000 since Lag Baomer, all from small donations.
10th Annual Kinus for the Family of Campus Shluchim
On Monday, Chai Sivan, the 10th Annual Chabad on Campus International Kinus will open at the Hudson Valley Resort in upstate New York. This year the conference will be held for four days and will host over 250 Shluchim and Shluchos, and 300 children. Organizers say their goal is “to involve the entire family in the shared work of Shlichus.”
JNet a Hit at Lag B’Omer Parade
Photo by TuvelPhotography.com
Setting up a Mivtzoim booth at a fun fair is commonplace among Lubavitch Bochurim. A Mivtzoim booth in Crown Heights, however, is quite unheard of. Yet amid the crowds of children dragging their parents from ride to ride at Sunday’s Lag B’Omer fun fair, bochurim were seen asking fellow Chassidim to take part in Mivtzah Torah.
Passport Services Coming Soon to Brooklyn Library
Clinton Hill Patch
The list of reasons to never travel to Manhattan seems to keep growing and growing for Brooklyn residents. Now, even getting a U.S. passport is about to get easier.
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