A select group of 23 directors of Chabad preschools from around the country spent three inspiring days at the beginning of May with Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School master educators at a conference organized by CECE, the Chabad Early Childhood Education network, a project of the Shluchim Office.
“Brooklyn” was the 34th most popular name nationwide for baby girls in 2010, and in Utah, South Dakota, and North Dakota, it was the SIXTH most common. Brooklyn, according to ParentsConnect, comes from the Dutch word “Breukelen,” and probably means “broken land,” which means it’s sort of an odd baby name. Its popularity, at least according to a Utah mayor, can be attributed to 9/11.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A comment to a drunken man walking on Lefferts with an open beer in his hand, prompted him to fly into a rage and attack a Jewish storekeeper.
Four-year-old Yoily Englander OBM was killed by a truck as he rode a tricycle in Brooklyn. The driver apparently could not see a boy whose head barely reached the bumper.
Ten severely wounded IDF soldiers arrived today in New York for a 10 day vacation around the US, accompanied by Chabad Terror Victims Project, and hosted by Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side under the auspices of Rabbi Uriel and Shevy Vigler.
Time is not on the side of Big Apple residents calling 911 to report crimes. Police response times have increased every year since 2007 — and it now takes an average of 8.4 minutes for officers to respond to reports of crimes in progress, city stats show.
Yesterday, Sunday, the Mayor of Jerusalem visited the Ohel, where he was greeted by a delegation from Chabad. At a reception following his time in the Ohel, the Mayor spoke about his appreciation for Chabad and mentioned his special connection.
The following was written by Reb Meilech Bindinger, from the Tokyo High Court, Chamber 410:
In a display of amazing Kiddush Hashem Rabbi Chaim Miller, editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, had a column of his featured as the lead item on the Huffington Post’s Religion page. The column is based on a Sicha of the Rebbe concerning man’s connection to Hashem.
Shloime Coleman (London, UK) and Chayala Friedman (Pittsburgh, PA)
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A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has jolted the U.S. art world, threatening an end to major cultural loans between the two countries.
As tens of thousands of children prepare for next week’s Jewish unity parade through the streets of the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., newly released footage of a similar 1984 event captures the energy surrounding observances of the minor holiday known as Lag B’Omer.
Menachem Mendel Silverberg (Monsey, NY) and Altie Maness (Crown Heights)
he allegations against Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana are fairly straightforward: He helped a former boarding school friend serve as a scout for terrorists who carried out a 2008 rampage that killed more than 160 people in Mumbai.
If you had encountered him back in the ’90s near Jerusalem’s Zion Square, chances are you would have crossed the street to avoid him. Shneur Hasofer was one of the lost ‘kids of the wall’ who spent his teen years loading up on drugs and alcohol in downtown Jerusalem.
Michoel Liverson (Mexico City) and Chaya Mushka Marcovich (Mexico City)
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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the Ohel this afternoon. The Mayor, who is in New York for a visit, made it a point to drop in and Daven.
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