Rabbi Motti Kenig, director of Chabad of Modi’in Ilit, is not easily shocked by threats and harassment. These are things he has gotten used to over the past few years, ever since he opened a Chabad House in the middle of a Litvak-Charedi town, and began to teach Chassidus to Yiden who were thirsting for the knowledge.
A consultant’s report has found that New York City’s 911 system is troubled by delays and errors that endanger callers in an emergency. Mayor Michael Bloomberg released an edited version of the report Friday, but he is fighting a court order that the original, unedited version of the report be released to the public.
In an editorial on the shifting of political and social power in New York City, the New York Times listed Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn as the group whose power and influence is rising fastest.
Yossi Lifshitz (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Leah Eizenberg (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Most people in our community consider it chassidish to make a L’chaim at various occasions. Whether it’s an engagement, wedding, bris, yortzeit, farbrengen or gathering of any type – it’s an occasion to have a drink.
From the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov, we present a never-before-seen gallery of photos of the Rebbe attending the Lag Ba’omer parade which took place in front of 770 in 1980. Additionally, we present a copy of an invitation which was sent out for the Lag Ba’omer parade in 1967, only a few days before the Six Day War.
Hundreds of Shluchim from all over France gathered in Paris today for the annual regional Kinus, where they listened to lectures and attended workshops in an effort to boost their activities and reach out to even more Jews than before.
Thieves have waltzed off with more than 30 cast-iron manhole covers from thoroughfares in Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens since March, Con Edison said Thursday, presumably selling the 320-pound discs for scrap, officials said.
The president of the French Jewish student organization has called on the University of Toulouse to combat anti-Semitism after a dialogue conducted by Israeli students last week was disrupted by protests’ hateful threats and chants.
The practice of “faith healing” carries obvious dangers, such as discouraging those who need conventional medical help from seeking it. When the “healer” charges for it, the obvious worry is financial exploitation of the vulnerable and naïve.
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Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of an outdoor gathering. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article
IYH this Monday, 15 Iyar (May 7), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
Buses will leave 770 at 5:00 PM and return at 7:45 PM. Transportation will cost $3.
Registration for the Merkos Chinuch Office summer Conferences has opened.
Shul goers were shocked this morning when they arrived for Shacharis at the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in the Old City of Tzfas. They found the Aron Kodesh broken and six Sifrei Torah stolen. Some of the Sifrei Torah were antique.
Following reports that he had disparaged Chabad in a meeting with the Satmar Rebbe regarding participation in the upcoming “antinet” gathering in Citi Field, Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva of Beis Medrash Gevohah in Lakewood, released the following statement:
A fire broke out in the Montgomery Street home of Crown Heights’ senior rov, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, leaving the rov – and another family renting out their bottom floor – in need of a place to stay only a couple of hours before Shabbos.
Travel & Leisure magazine named La Guardia the nation’s worst major air hub for customer comfort.
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