The mini-spike in murders that has pushed the homicide rate up 15 percent so far this year continued with three more killings this morning, following four on Saturday night and Sunday. Through Sunday, there were 459 murders this year, compared with 399 at this time last year, the police said this morning. Here are the seven new killings:
Tonight I attended the international Chabad emissary conference – the Kinus Hashluchim HaOlami – for the first time in sixteen years. When I was the Rebbe’s emissary at Oxford University I came annually. But with my split from Chabad over my inclusion of non-Jewish students at Oxford, I stopped.
Recently I had the z’chus to attend a bar mitzvah out-of-town in the U.S.A. Shluchim made it for their son. And while there I witnessed something so beautiful, and sadly, so rare. Let me tell you about it.
I’ll call the Shliach who made the bar mitzvah Shliach A and his friend, Shliach B. Shliach B came, of course, Shabbos to Shul to celebrate the bar mitzvah. The boy lained, and spoke, and then came the grand Kiddush. As a gesture of closeness with his buddy, Shliach A, Shliach B took L’Chaim a few times and got the whole crowd, most of whom were not frum, to singing and dancing.
Young Shluchim attending the Tzeirei Hashluchim camp enjoyed a great trip to New Roc City.
More than 4,000 rabbis from all over the world gathered in Brooklyn over the weekend to celebrate their culture and religion.
Levi Rabin (Edgware, England) and Mushkie Loschak (S. Barbra, CA)
L’Chaim Tonight Monday at FREE
1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
On Rosh Chodesh it is customary that we add a number of Tefilos, one of them is we add Yaaleh Veyavo during Shmoneh Esreh. What if one forgot to say it or is unsure if he did?
The largest teen program in New York, Neshama Cteen of Chabad of Brighton-Manhattan Beach, proudly displays the toys they have collected and wrapped to distribute to special needs children in our community to make their Chanukah celebrations especially happy.
Four-term Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman talked politics and spirituality in Oklahoma City, Okla., taking the dais at the Chabad Community Center for Jewish Life and Learning to celebrate 13 years of full-time Chabad-Lubavitch activities in the state.
The NYPD says there’s no such thing as a ticket quota, but memos posted at a Brooklyn stationhouse say otherwise.
Two notices obtained by the Daily News clearly spell out how many moving-violation summonses cops should be handing out.
Following the conclusion of the Banquet in Redhook, Shluchim poured back into Crown Heights where they made their way to 770 and sat down for a lively fargrengen amongst fellow Shluchim.
Nachi Shusterman (Monsey, NY) and Rikki Baron (Columbia, MD)
L’Chaim Tonight Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Several minutes ago a photographer walked into JEM’s offices, finding JEM’s video editors still hard at work. After weeks of work preparing over ten unique videos which were featured throughout the Kinus Hashluchim, JEM’s video editors are spending yet another night at work – this time to edit the DVD in the banquet in time for the morning.
Running parallel to the Kinus Banquet, the Tzeirei Hashluchim held their own banquet, complete with a roll-call, dancing, and entertainment in Crown Heights.
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