While the debate about bill banning kosher slaughter continues in the Dutch parliament, the Jewish community of Amsterdam enjoyed a historic experience when the old Gerard Dou street Synagogue, located in downtown Amsterdam, hosted Friday night services for the first time since the Holocaust.
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De Voce, a weekly Brooklyn Hasidic magazine, has dropped Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason from its pages, much as the Der Tzitung newspaper did. The magazine does leave somewhat blurry lines to suggest the photo was altered, as if a ghost Clinton still lingers, but the females are nevertheless scrubbed from the room.
Israel’s kosher cellular phone market has a new model, a device with a Yiddish interface to help devout Jews combine tradition with modern technology.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has jumped into the NYPD ticket-fixing controversy, demanding the city’s top cop come clean over allegations that some officers covered up busts for crimes a lot more serious than minor motor-vehicle infractions.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A wild shootout in a Crown Heights apartment building left one man fighting for his life, and police searching for three assailants – one of them possibly shot.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Terrance Nelson, Crown Heightses most infamous car burglar, was arrested last night after an encounter with a group of Bochurim. Nelson was attacked and beaten after they accused him of breaking into a car, police later arrested him based on his history and the allegations.
Muslim leaders in a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb are upset over a homeowner’s sign insinuating that bombs are being made next door at a newly opened mosque.
On Monday, about 60 men and women gathered at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel for an evening of growth and inspiration through a workshop titled “Stillness, Awareness and Growth” led by renowned Kabbalist and lecturer Rabbi Laibl Wolf.
Over 260 people gathered for a ceremony marking the completion and dedication of a brand new Sefer Torah at the regional headquarters of Chabad of Arizona. The new Torah was written in honor of Nazine Sarraf to have a complete recovery, and was donated by her husband Bob Sarraf. Rabbi Moshe Klein completed the writing.
The uncut footage from the 1984 Lag BaOmer parade in Crown Heights is now available on DVD. It features military salutes to the Rebbe, bagpipes playing “Moshiach Now,” and tens of thousands of kinderlach reciting the 12 pesukim together. Topping it all – two beautiful Sichos that the Rebbe tailored specifically for his young audience.
Reservations for this year’s parade are coming in fast, Boruch Hashem many more schools and Chabad houses will be joining the parade than ever before, so therefore unfortunately space is limited. Reservations will close on Sunday May 15th or earlier if we fill up. This is for schools reservations and the general public.
While Israel celebrates Independence Day today, Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine will have a hard time ignoring the hatred and hostility towards the Jewish state and its Jewish citizens that poisons the air on their campus. UC Irvine’s annual Israel Apartheid Week, organized by the Muslim Students Union (MSU) is now in progress, making this an especially difficult time for the school’s estimated 1,000 Jewish students.
Levi Grossbaum (Long Island) and Noami Tauger (Israel)
L’Chaim Tonight Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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Yaakov and Malka (Nee Davidov) Richman (Sydney, Austraila)
CROWN HEIGHTS — Some residents in Crown Heights say they are on high alert due to a series of unusual auto thefts in their neighborhood.
Today, Tuesday the 6th of Iyar marks the 22nd Yortzeit to the passing of Reb Yisroel HaLevi Duchman OBM. Reb Yisroel was known for his unique relationship with the Rebbe, and his special love and Ahavas Yisroel for every single Yid.
Educational Institute Oholei Torah, the Flagship school of Chabad Lubavitch, is in its final stages before their 56th Annual Dinner to be held this Sunday, May 15th, 2011, at the Gutnick Ballroom in its Eastern Parkway Campus.
