Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to charge religious institutions and nonprofit organizations a fee for garbage pickup beginning in July 2012 drew stiff opposition at a City Council hearing Thursday.
These are the first images of the alleged terrorists who plotted to attack New York synagogues dressed as Hasidic Jews.
Over the past two months, the boys in Cheder Chabad of Monsey were busy learning Mishnayos By Heart! Many boys would bring their Mishnayos to recess and lunch and use their free time to study.
A group of Netura Karta from Williamsburg bussed in to Crown Heights a short while ago to protest in front of a local beauty salon. The group shouted ‘gevald gevald’ whiling maligning Chabad and the Rebbe.
Shmuly Simon (Manchester, England) and Devora Leah Tzarfati (London, England)
We are pleased to present our Forty Eighth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
In a moving ceremony last week held at the SUNY Downstate Auditorium, Rabbi Moishe Feiglin, Executive Director of A.L.I.Y.A. (Alternative Learning Institute for Young Adults), together with two other honorees, were awarded a Youth Advocate Proclamation.
NEW YORK [ABC] — Two men trying to buy guns and talking about attacking Manhattan synagogues were arrested, and city officials say a potential threat was thwarted.
When talk begins about the Lag B’Omer parades in New York, some of the memorable moments with the Rebbe come to mind; the joy that radiated from the Rebbe’s face, the keen interest he had in each and every child that marched by, the encouragement the Rebbe gave as the floats and marching bands passed in the parade’s grand procession.
Solar energy pioneer Yaacov (Jack) Hanoka, who held patents for 56 of his inventions and was known for his passion and optimism in finding alternative energy sources to fossil fuels, passed away Sunday at the age of 75.
Yossi and Chanie Garelik (Crown Heights)
Simmy and Shoshe (nee Wudowsky) Ben-Abou (Crown Heights)
Avremi and Rochie (nee Chayo) Orimland (Crown Heights)
A bill raising fines for taxi drivers who unlawfully overcharge or refuse to take passengers to a destination in the five boroughs has passed the City Council.
It was a hair’s breadth escape by a woman from a bank robbery suspect in northern New Jersey last week.
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