
Torah Café Mixes Business and Pleasure
After Tishrei’s marathon of simcha and spiritual elevation, many people find themselves faced with the daunting task of returning to another kind of race – the rat race.
After Tishrei’s marathon of simcha and spiritual elevation, many people find themselves faced with the daunting task of returning to another kind of race – the rat race.
Zalman and Chani Wolowik (Woodmere, NY)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Crown Street Preschool held a package party, for the mothers of the yeshiva children.
Last month, four men allegedly surrounded an Israeli man who was visiting Crown Heights for the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and punched him in the face. The man, 36, knocked on the door of a nearby Jewish home at midnight. The residents called Shomrim, a group of orthodox Jewish men who patrol the neighborhood. The Shomrim arrived at the scene and called police, who are investigating it as a possible hate crime. All four assailants were black.
Isser and Devorah Leah (nee Kirschenbaum) New (Crown Heights)
We are pleased to present our twenty-first online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
NY1 — Two of the men convicted in the 2007 shooting death of a police officer in Brooklyn are now being charged in another shooting that happened 24 hours earlier.
Tens of thousands of times over six years, the police stopped and questioned people on New York City streets without the legal justification for doing so, a new study says.
A new guidance letter issued by United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) explicitly warns federally assisted schools that they will face punitive actions if they fail to respond to hostile environments that target students because they are Jewish, Muslim or Sikh.
Dovid and Chaya (nee Gopin) Margolin (Crown Heights)
SECAUCUS, NJ [CHI] — Despite the recession economy, thousands packed the Medowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ for the annual Kosherfest, with hundreds of companies from food makers to distributors with insurance and credit card processing all in the mix touting their wares.
University of Illinois Men’s basketball team with couch Bruce Weber hosted the 4th Annual Alley-oop for autism a Philanthropy project by the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity in partnership with the Chabad Center for Jewish life in support of the The Stuart I Raskas Friendship Circle of Illinois.
FT. COLLINS, CO — On Friday, Jewish and non-Jewish students gathered in the Lory Student Center’s West Ballroom to celebrate what many felt was the largest family dinner in Fort Collins.
Rabbi David Masinter director of Chabad activities at Chabad House in Johannesburg South Africa putting on Tefillin with Jordan Belfort. Belfort is known as the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ after his two bestselling novels which he authored after being released from a 22 month stint in prison.