Sunday concluded JLI’s six-day National Jewish Retreat at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. The retreat was attended by over 600 participants and featured 152 inspirational classes by 36 guest speakers.
A city bus and three cars were involved in a serious multi-car crash on Eastern Parkway last night, send drivers and passengers to the hospital.
NEW YORK [AP] — The amount consumers owed on their credit cards in this year’s second quarter dropped to the lowest level in more than eight years as cardholders continued to pay off balances in the uncertain economy.
According to police, a taxi driver had his throat slashed last night after he told a passenger he was Muslim.
Huge photo gallery of another successful Lman Achai summer.
A new global series will be launched this Wednesday, 15 Elul, in Likkutei Torah by the Alter Rebbe.
University students heading back to school in the United Kingdom will find their Chabad centers on campus expanding in new directions. Opening a daycare, Hebrew schools and mikvahs, Chabad on Campus UK is serving students as their lives take on the complexities of adulthood and family.
Naftali and Esther Rivka Salomon (Crown Heights)
A police car crossing the intersection of Carroll Street and Bedford Avenue was involved in an accident which sent an officer to the hospital.
Three Lubavitch owned companies were ranked in the top 1000 of Inc. Magazines fastest growing private companies of 2010.
A fast moving fire broke out in an apartment building this morning. The incident took place in the upper floors of 693 Albany Avenue, which is on the corner of Rutland Road, where the fire forced resident out onto the fire escapes.
What can be wrong with a simple handshake? Especially when it is a widespread custom? The Avner Institute would like to present a letter of the Rebbe written in 1976 to a woman who asked why observant Jews refrain from any physical display of greeting to certain non-family members. With special thanks to the Nissan Mendel Archive.
Two additional candidates will be running in the elections for the position of third Rov in Crown Heights. After the Beis Din gave an extension to submit new candidates, two new candidates, Rabbi Yeshaya Braun and Rabbi Emanuel Chaviv, were added.
First it was the Vaad Hakohol members who opened the finals, and tonight it will be the sponsors who will throw the first pitch in game 1 of the championships, where the Landmark Funding Red Heifers will square off against the Advantage Wholesale Supply Skullcaps.
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