Rabbi Dovid Raskin, dean of the Central Lubavitcher Yeshivah in Brooklyn, and a senior member of Chabad’s central leadership, passed away yesterday, Tuesday, May 10 after a lengthy illness. He was 84.
“They say 20,000, and I say where?” tour guide Claudia Kravetz says of Chile’s Jewish population as we drive through the intersection of Las Condes and La Dehesa streets in Santiago’s Lo Barnechea neighborhood. With its wide, palm-tree-lined boulevards, reminiscent of Los Angeles, the area is nicknamed Little Israel for its concentration of synagogues.
The Aliya Youth center located in Crown Heights,Brooklyn. Open for nine years, the center serves as a support system, for troubled Jewish teenage boys that fall through the cracks of the Lubavitcher Hasidic Jew community.
Mendel and Kayla Feldman (Crown Heights)
Mendy and Sternie Mellul (Montreal, Canada)
Better known for Apple than challah, Cupertino, Calif. – as headquarters to some of America’s top high-tech companies – has rocketed from a post-war suburban enclave to an important link in the Silicon Valley economy, fueling the growth of a local Jewish community as well.
A poll out Wednesday from Quinnipiac University shows that most city voters still give Bloomberg failing grades. Just 40% of voters approve of the way he runs the city and only 25% say he’s doing a good job of running the schools.
The U.S. Postal Service continues to hemorrhage money, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the most recent quarter.
Children and parents from New Zealand to New York, stunned by the March 11 massacre of five members of Itamar, Israel’s Fogel family by Palestinian terrorists, have penned countless letters of support to its orphans, extending words of comfort, love and support.
With sadness we inform you of the passing, after a lengthy illness, of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav Hatomim Rabbi Dovid Raskin OBM, Menahel of Tomchei Tmimim 770, Menahel of Tzach and a member of Aguch. He was 84 years old.
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.
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.
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