CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An impatient driver was the cause of a serious accident between her Toyota sedan and an 18-wheeler. Eyewitnesses to the accident said that the tractor trailer was making a left turn from New York on to Lefferts Avenue when the car attempted to pass it and the two collided.
After hosting the banquet of the International Kinus Hashluchim in the armory in Crown Heights last year, and at Manhattan’s Pier 94 two years ago, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky has announced on behalf of the Vaad Hakinus that this year the banquet will take place at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, located at Pier 12 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
Chaim and Chanie (nee Kesselman) Brod (Crown Heights)
Mendy and Esther (nee Rosenfeld) Schapiro (Monroeville, PA)
Akiva Plutno (Miami, FL) and Tova Adler (Toronto, Ontario)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Aliyah Shul
527 E. New York Ave between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave
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On Sunday, Chabad of Ho Chi Minh moved to a new building double the size of its previous location in one of the city’s busiest areas. The new move makes room for the growing number of Jews drawn to Vietnam’s attractive economic opportunities and alluring beaches, to participate in Chabad’s activities.
On the 4th day of Chol HaMoed Sukkos the Rebbe’s Diamond Daveners – Kol Yakov Yehuda of Los Angeles – boarded “a genuine London double Decker convertible bus” to go Sukka hopping in the metropolitan Los Angeles area.
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A reader tipped us off to seemingly out of place image on a wraparound mural on a Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue construction site.
Monsey’s massive Sukkah at the Tzemach Tzedek Shul collapsed after taking a serious beating during the storm on Shmini Atzeres, two people who were in the Sukkah at the time suffered light injuries.
Kilauea, HI — A huge simcha (celebration) was held at Papa‘a Bay Ranch on Wednesday.
The celebration marked the arrival and blessing of the first orthodox torah scroll made in Israel specially for Chabad of Kaua‘i, members said.
BAKU, Azerbaijan — About 200 people, including Azerbaijani President Ilhem Aliyev, Israel’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and businessman Lev Leviev, gathered in the capital of this moderate Muslim country just north of Iran on Monday for the inauguration of the new campus of a Jewish school.
For the last few years of his life, actor Tony Curtis enjoyed a close relationship with Rabbi Mendy Harlig at Chabad Green Valley, in Henderson, NV, where he lived. The famous film star passed away on September 29 at the age of 85.
Preview of the ground breaking music video, starting dozens of Jewish music superstars, for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who was unjustly convicted.
It was one of the most elevating scenes of those years. Every Sunday thousands of people from all sorts of backgrounds, origins and beliefs crowded at the front of 770 Eastern Parkway, Chabad World Headquarters, stood in line to receive a dollar. The Rebbe would stand there in front of his holy room for many hours, giving out dollar bills accompanied with blessings for success.
Moshe and Esther (nee Harrison) Laber (Chicago, IL)
Shauli and Chaya Sara (nee Zirkind) Ben Shachar (Jerusalem)
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