The New York Police Department plans to step up enforcement of bicycle safety in parts of the city that have seen a disproportionately higher rate of collisions involving bicyclists, city officials said Thursday.
Mordechai Ben David sings Yerushalayim is Not For Sale in November 1986 at Brooklyn College.
About an hour south of Cancun and an hour north of Tulum, Mexico – smack in the middle of the Riviera Maya – sits the scuba-diving haven of Playa del Carmen. With an infusion of capital and visitors, the once-sleepy fishing village is undergoing a rapid transformation into a tourist’s paradise.
Earlier this month, Jewish chaplains employed by various Federal, state, and local prisons serving the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio regions, together with more than fifty Aleph Institute volunteers convened for a conference at The Aleph Institute’s Northeast Regional Headquarters.
Rabbi Shmuly and his wife Shaina Feldman of Crown Heights will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Clay County, FL where they will launch a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish population.
Pessy Matusof, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who as director of the Jewish girls high school in Casablanca influenced the educational and spiritual development of thousands of Moroccans, passed away Oct. 11 at the age of 86.
Designed to further the camaraderie that exists between shluchim and their supporters, the Lay Leadership Conference of the International Kinus Hashluchim will open on Sunday, November 7th with a focus on “Partnering with the Growth of Chabad”.
Ten Yad held their annual Auction Sunday in Crown Heights, with entertainment by French singer Méléha and Kineret.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Three Bochurim were the victims of a group of overzealous cops late last night. They were talking outside an apartment building, when cops stopped them and gave them all a criminal summonses for ‘blocking pedestrian traffic.’
Meir Piekarski (Brooklyn, NY) and Tzippy Levinger (Brooklyn, NY)
The graffiti has been replaced by advertising. The tokens have been replaced by MetroCards. But the subway preachers are a constant. They were there before I was born and will likely be there after I die — unless, of course, their occasional prophecy of the exact date that the world will end turns out to be accurate.
As a culmination to a whirlwind of a Shabbos, students attending the annual Chabad on Campus Shabbaton were treated to a grand ‘Melaveh Malkah Carnival’. Attractions ranged from Jousting and Rock Climbing to creative Jewish craft projects.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was slashed across his face during a verbal argument aboard a local city bus, and the attack is suspected of being gang related.
Rabbi Berel Zaltzman, Shliach of the Fairlawn Russian community in New Jersey, farbrenged last night with a group of Monsey yungeleit at a Melava Malka at the home of Tzili and Chaya Ehrenreich.
As Jewish singers & artists from around the world gathered to celebrate the release of a song in support of Sholom Rubashkin on Thursday, 29 Tishrei, one of the biggest stars was nowhere to be found. Singer and co-composer, Mordechai Ben David, was in Cincinnati, OH visiting a little boy, who needed some support and cheering up of his own.
Zalmy Langsam (Crown Heights) and Sara (bas R. Moshe & Chaya) Klein (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
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