LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — In the beginning of the month Hatzolah of Los Angeles held its first Dinner, celebrating 10 years of service to the Los Angeles community. The dinner honored Rabbi & Mrs. Uri Mandelbaum, Dr. & Mrs. Martin Kay and Mr. Alex Friedman, who donated the first three ambulances to Hatzolah respectively.
The number of black murder victims surged at an alarming rate last year – a key reason for a citywide spike in homicides, police officials said.
SPRINGFIELD, IL — A state lawmaker doesn’t want drivers to stop and take pictures or videos of vehicle accidents.
As an international effort representing 70 countries and a host of non-governmental organizations directs aid to the troubled island nation of Japan, locals who survived an initial 8.9-magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami only to face the prospect of the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown are living in a near constant state of fear, doing what they can to make it through the day.
Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour (Great Neck, NY)
Shmully and Sarah Leah Eber (S. Diego, CA)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Campers who attended Camp Emunah this past summer go together this afternoon for a grand reunion, where staff members reunited with their campers and reminisced about past summers, and planned for the upcoming ones.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a Shiva call to the home in which the Fogel family are sitting Shiva after 5 members of the family were brutally murdered on Friday night. The heart wrenching scene unfolded with Netanyahu promising to continue building.
What a fun-packed Shabbos it was! Starting with pick-up on Friday afternoon in front of the Schneersohn square, the girls headed in to the cars to what would be a weekend of a lifetime!
LOS ANGELES, CA — An orthodox Jewish prayer observance by three passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight on Sunday alarmed flight attendants unfamiliar with the ritual, prompting them to lock down the cockpit and issue a security alert, officials said.
The flowers are blooming; the birds chirping; and the sun is shining. Yup, springtime is once again upon us!
After Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow on Groundhog Day, we’ve ushered in the thawing-out season, delightedly, a little early.
Shaya Gorkin (Crown Heights) and Chayale Blachman (Crown Heights)
Maple Street Shul, 612 Maple St, [between Kingston and Albany Ave].
Chaim Lipszyc (Alabama/Ukraine) and Chaya Miller (Chicago. IL)
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Pre-1a students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street received their first siddurs in a special ceremony with their proud parents in attendance!
Students in Oholei Torahs second grades have been engaged in a Tanya Baal Peh campaign lezchus Nosson Deitsch. Students have accomplished as much as 70 lines by heart, and as a reward they received a tour of a Hatzalah ambulance.
For the first time, United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Crown Street and Bais Rivkah are working together to offer Shalach Manos to the community.
This Sunday, the 7th of Adar 2, the young talmidim of classes of Rabbis Yossi Goldstein and Mendy Barnett received their very own Siddur, and celebrated it with a grand Siddur Party.
