Hundreds of guests – Bochurim – coming to Crown Heights from around the world for the month of Tishrei were set up with accommodations they could have only dreamed of in the past. This year Yeshivos joined with the Vaad Talmidai Hatmimim, and arranged proper accommodations around the neighborhood for the Bochurim, as well as a meaningful curriculum for their time here.
NEW YORK — The Chabad House Serving NYU, a Jewish organization on campus, is expanding. The group recently purchased two floors at 52 E. Fourth Street.
CHISINAU, Moldova — Moldova’s interim president and the leader of the country’s Jews on Wednesday condemned Nazi graffiti scrawled on synagogue walls in the capital.
This Erev Rosh Hashanah, tens of thousands of Jews globally were the proud recipients of a unique electronic Shana Tova Card created by acclaimed filmmaker, Michael Kigel. The card featured greetings and well wishes for the coming year from a diverse spectrum of over 30 Rabbis, politicians, public leaders and noted lecturers.
Yossi Friedman (Kfar Chabad) and Chaya Zalmanov (Tzfat)
Levi Lesches (Monsey, NY) and Malka Fishman (Los Angeles, CA)
L’Chaim Tonight, Wednesday at the JCM 2nd Floor
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
It’s getting less kosher to wave a chicken over your head to take away your sins.
A Brooklyn man said the ASPCA all but forced him to stop the controversial tradition at his feather-strewn business yesterday.
New regulations allowing the cars of red-light scofflaws to be towed have resulted in more than 1,100 vehicles being hooked on the first day — more than double the daily average, The Post has learned.
NEW YORK [AP] — Chase’s online banking service was restored just after 1 a.m. EST on Wednesday after being down all day Tuesday.
NEW YORK [NY1] — After considering the issue for months, Mayor Michael Bloomberg today is expected to announce the expansion of the city’s Smoke Free Air Act.
The Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim has released three beautiful Kovtzim for the crowd of Bochurim that are spending Tishrei in Crown Heights and by the Ohel.
NEW SQUARE — Volunteer firefighters were battling a raging house fire tonight on Truman Avenue off Washington Avenue, the village’s main access road. No injuries were reported.
Shmulik and Chana Zalmanov (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher man was struck by a reversing car on Kingston Avenue this evening. Eyewitnesses said that the man was standing in the middle of the street, and was struck by a car that was backing up.
Rabbi misses Rosh Hashana in Palm City for a very small reason
Students at the first Jewish preschool to open in Serbia in more than 50 years learn how to make challah bread.
A group of Brazilian Jews met with their Shliach, Rabino Yossi Schildkraut, all of whom happened to be in New York today, and did Kapores in front of the Shlichum Office on Eastern Parkway.
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