The United States District Court has rescheduled the trial date for 60-year-old Ron Hirsch aka Israel Fischer, who was arrested in April. He has been linked to a deliberate explosion outside a Chabad in Santa Monica.
A drunken Hasidic Jewish man who assaulted his Turkish neighbour – pouring beer on her and calling her a ‘terrorist’ – hid in a synagogue and tried to fight policemen when they came to arrest him, sources said.
On Tuesday, the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission approved the creation of a new historic district in Brooklyn’s predominantly West Indian-American and Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights: the Crown Heights North II Historic District.
City police officers who stop and frisk people on the street will soon have to give a better explanation for their actions, according a published report.
Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, joined by rabbis from across Germany, Israel and the United States, presided over the ordination of the latest class of rabbis to graduate in Berlin.
They may not often grace the pages of Vogue, but strictly Orthodox women regularly reinterpret celebrity and catwalk fashion – with a modest twist, according to research by the London College of Fashion.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A robbery on a subway platform had police hold up a train in the Kingston Avenue Station Monday afternoon.
The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Mordechai Schapiro OBM of Crown Heights at the age of 35.
He is survived by his wife Leah and four children Mussie, Mendel, Rivka and Basya, as well as his parents Rabbi Gavriel and Malya Rochel Schapiro.
State senators may need to name themselves the official state vegetable! In the worst redefinition of the word “vegetable” since the Reagan Administration briefly suggested that ketchup was one, the Senate voted last week to name corn the state vegetable – even though corn is a grain.
This past week saw the 10th annual Chag HaSmicha for the new rabbis of Kollel Tiferet Menachem – Los Angeles at Moshe Ganz hall B”H.
Rivka Goldman couldn’t sleep last night, the putrid smell of smoke seeping into her house in Los Alamos, where a raging wildfire that in the space of a day has consumed more than 44,000 acres led authorities to order the evacuation of the New Mexico town. Goldman and her husband packed up and boarded a plane for Chicago today to visit their daughter.
Recently, Anash of Los Angeles, CA gathered at Cheder Menachem, the Chabad Elementary boy’s school for their 7th annual Chayolei Tzivos Hashem Grand Expo.
Rabbi Nechemia Schusterman puts down the phone, leans across his desk in Peabody, Massachusetts, and smiles. “The Alter Rebbe said men darf lebben mit der tzeit. I think we’re taking that from catchphrase to reality.”
The first of the boy camp busses rolled out of Crown Heights Monday Night. CGI Montreal campers drive all night from Brooklyn to the camp in Montreal; kicking off the summer camp months!
Shua and Estee (nee Shapiro) Lurie (Montreal, Canada)
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