Close to 500 Homeless individuals attend a BBQ, hosted by the Chabad Student Network . Close to 25 students gave up hours of their weekend to give back to the community. The BBQ was organized by Ariella Singer Vice President of the CSN ( Chabad Student Network) and was sponsored by generous donors in the Ottawa Jewish community.
WASHINGTON, DC [CBS] — A massive egg recall has consumers scrambling to check their pantries for eggs that might be contaminated with salmonella.
Redemption is something that usually happens only to characters in movies. But sometimes it happens for athletes. The last time he was in the ring, Dmitriy Salita suffered a crushing first-round loss at the hands of Amir Khan in England. Next month, the boxer looks to get back to his winning ways at Oceana Hall in his hometown Brooklyn on September 1.
Some of the Big Apple’s brightest buildings are joining a campaign to dim the lights while millions of migrating birds pass through town this fall.
Starting in November, a motorist who passes too close to a bicyclist on the road could be slapped with a ticket.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – Opening game 1 of the Crown Heights Softball Leagues finals were the three members of the Vaad Hakohol, who together all threw out the first pitch, opening up the game for the Heifers to beat the Tribe.
At the tail end of two weeks of Torah study led by visiting bochurim Mendel Jacobs and Mayer Gurkov, Rabbi Shais Taub farbrenged with the participants at Chabad of Northbrook, IL.
We were in Aruba, a small Caribbean island that is home to about 35 Jewish people. Sunday morning, we started with calling the “Jew of the island.” Tony is his name. He knows everyone and everything and waits a whole year for the Roving Rabbis to come.
As every year, throughout the 6 weeks of the camp season, campers from Camp Gan Israel Florida worked to prepare a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe with their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program; together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 34,000 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and Siddur.
While many are still enjoying camp, Bochurim in Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto enjoy a shuir Chasidus. The Yeshiva run by Rabbi Wagner and Menahel Rabbi Oster is the first Chabad Yeshiva in Northern America to resume studies on Rosh Chodesh Elul.
At a summer rally, the Rebbe puts charity in a tzedoka box held by a camper in Machane Yisroel in the year 5736. This photo is from the archives of Reb Shmuel Zalmanov.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Candidate for New York State Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman, currently serving as a NYS Senator for the 31st district, met today with Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, chairman of Merkos Leinyonai Chinuch.
The first Shabbos of the spiritual month of Elul was intensely uplifted at Aliya. Aliya’s annual Shabbaton this year was held at the beautiful East Hamptons.
Much talk about been generated over the controversy of the 770 court case leaving many with questions if it will ever end, or how it even started to begin with, and who brought whom to court?
MORRISTOWN [CHI] — Many will be surprised to learn that after thirty years in existence, the community Shul of Morristown, Bais Hamikdash, Bais Haknesset, Congregation Levi Yitzchok, is still without its own Sefer Torah.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Sarah Shemtov, 74, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
She is survived by her children; Rabbi Yossi Shemtov, Shliach in Tucson, AZ, Mrs. Feige Duchman (Crown Heights), Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov (Crown Heights), Mrs. Bassie Treitel (Montreal), and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Shliach in Detroit, MI.
The Levaya will take place today, Tuesday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chaples at 12:00pm and passing by 770 at around 12:45pm
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