DETROIT, MI — Battered by waves of layoffs as the home of the auto industry saw unemployment levels rise to an astonishing 28.9 percent last September, Detroit was at ground zero in the national economic downturn.
RUSSIA — The Zharinov family didn’t know much about Judaism. Irina (now Chana), the mother, knew she was Jewish, but that was about it.
The completion of the first Torah scroll inked from beginning to end in South Africa has stirred massive pride, a fierce sense of excitement and unprecedented joy for dwindling Jewish communities once thought forsaken.
Yisroel and Chaya (nee Dahan) Uzan (Crown Heights)
Sharing his own birthday with the boys from Cheder at the Ohel, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Shaliach from Mineola Long Island came to farbreng in honor of Moshe Rabbanu’s birthday and Yartziet.
Steve Samuels, owner of Work With Your Brain, who is the designer and project manager of the 4th floor of the Jewish Children’s Museum gave us a walk through what is shaping up to be the next floor of the already amazing museum.
As JLI launches in Israel, hundreds flock to 20 Chabad Houses chosen to host JLI’s first course this week.
A fugitive with a knife, who the police said had left behind a calamity of murders and broken lives in Brooklyn, was captured by officers at Times Square on Saturday morning after stabbing another victim on a subway train, investigators said.
Each penny represents a life. The children at Marion Manor Elementary School have been on a mission since August to collect 6 million pennies representing the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945.
Sruly Edelman (Crown Heights) and Goldie Hershkowitz (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Ben Cotlar (Houston, TX) and Miriam Peysin (Chicago, IL)
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Sholom Ber Cunin (Crown Heights) and Zeldie Hecht (Chicago)
JCM, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Alternate side parking has been in effect since Monday, but to little avail as massive piles of frozen snow still take up many parking spaces, and the sanitation department did nothing with the cleaning rules being in effect. This did not stop the traffic cops from issuing tens of thousands of tickets.
Now playing, exclusively on CrownHeights.info, the Jewish Kids Radio! Kids of all ages can now listen in to a meaningful program which includes a few chances to win great prizes, a few special story’s connected, and more!
Chabad @ the Beaches’ Jewish recovery program recently brought bestselling author and world renowned speaker Rabbi Shais Taub here to Ponte Vedra Beach.
Chabad Chayil’s Hebrew after-school program at the Aventura Waterways K-8 Center was recently rated as one of the best in Miami-Dade County by A Gift for the Soul, an educational consulting company hired by the county.
Ben Cotlar (Houston, TX) and Miriam Peysin (Chicago, IL)
Avremy and Shifra (nee Rockford) Chein (Crown Heights/Florida)
Rivkah, 44, of Jerusalem gives birth to her 18th baby, who is already an uncle of two and evens out score in household which is now comprised of nine girls and nine boys. ‘They came one by one,’ she says.
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