LOS ANGELES, CA — An orthodox Jewish prayer observance by three passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight on Sunday alarmed flight attendants unfamiliar with the ritual, prompting them to lock down the cockpit and issue a security alert, officials said.
The flowers are blooming; the birds chirping; and the sun is shining. Yup, springtime is once again upon us!
After Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow on Groundhog Day, we’ve ushered in the thawing-out season, delightedly, a little early.
Shaya Gorkin (Crown Heights) and Chayale Blachman (Crown Heights)
Maple Street Shul, 612 Maple St, [between Kingston and Albany Ave].
Chaim Lipszyc (Alabama/Ukraine) and Chaya Miller (Chicago. IL)
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Pre-1a students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street received their first siddurs in a special ceremony with their proud parents in attendance!
Students in Oholei Torahs second grades have been engaged in a Tanya Baal Peh campaign lezchus Nosson Deitsch. Students have accomplished as much as 70 lines by heart, and as a reward they received a tour of a Hatzalah ambulance.
For the first time, United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Crown Street and Bais Rivkah are working together to offer Shalach Manos to the community.
This Sunday, the 7th of Adar 2, the young talmidim of classes of Rabbis Yossi Goldstein and Mendy Barnett received their very own Siddur, and celebrated it with a grand Siddur Party.
Building on the success of Jewish Heritage Night at the Miami Heat basketball game last season in Miami, the Florida Panthers management contacted Rabbi Pinny Andrusier of Chabad of Southwest Broward and asked him if the Panthers could host a Jewish heritage event at Bank Atlantic Center for the Jewish community.
Twenty-thousand people escorted the bodies of the five members of the Fogel family, killed over the weekend in a gruesome terror attack, as they were laid to rest Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem.
Levi and Esther Draiza (nee Levitansky) Raices (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Chaim (ben YM) Lipszyc (Alabama/Ukraine) and Chaya (bas Eliahu) Miller (Chicago. IL)
L’Chaim Tonight, Sunday at FREE
1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Zaki Tamir, chairman of the Vaad Hakohol, posted a lengthy post on his personal blog clarifying his personal stance on the matter of the Ikkul issued by the Krauss Beis Din, and declared his confidence in Rabbi Yosef Braun.
JERUSALEM [AP] — Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of settler homes in the West Bank, the prime minister’s office said Sunday in a stern political message to the Palestinians after three children and their parents were murdered in a remote settlement over the weekend.
NEW YORK [AP] — There’s something about the guy leaning on a post and checking his phone that catches Brandon Stanton’s eye. So he stops, asks if he can take a photo, clicks and continues on his way.
Rivky Levertov, 12, is looking forward to this weekend. The seventh grader, who lives in Santa Fe, N.M., will be spending it in Long Beach, Calif., with about a dozen girls from the online school she attends.
LAS VEGAS [AP] — Yuri Foreman, the aspiring rabbi-to-be who briefly held a piece of the 154-pound title, took a beating Saturday night at the hands of Pawel Wolak and lost for the second straight time.
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