On Chaf Mar Cheshvan, the birthday of the Rebbe Rashab (the 5th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch), the English speaking Chabad community of Ramat Beit Shemesh (Alef), Chabad on Dolev of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel, held a wonderful farbrengen.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Parshas Chaye Sarah came to life in the classrooms of Beis Rivkah. The children were engaged in various different creative and educational activities that captured their excitement of discovering new concepts.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Mispalelim of the early Minyans in 770 celebrated the completion and dedication of a new Sefer Torah last night in honor of the Rebbe Rashabs 150th Birthday. The Torah was sponsored by the mispallalim of the 7:30am Minyan in 770, fondly known as the “Happy Minyan”, and mispallalim of the 7:15am Minyan.
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Earlier this week the Rambam community, lead by Rabbi Shlomo Sabbah, had the privilege to welcome a brand new Torah scroll donated by Mr Patrick Sabbah & family (Los Angeles CA).
Hundreds of candles glinted off wine glasses while a burnished chandelier hanging from a 70-foot-high ceiling cast a rosy glow over the packed marble-clad ballroom of New York City’s Gotham Hall.
The MTA board has approved increases on tolls at certain New York bridges and tunnels. Crossings that only collect one-way tolls will increase by $1, while round-trip tolls, like those on the Verrazano Narrows, will increase by $2. E-ZPass users will only see an increase of 5 percent.
An elderly motorist plowed her Mercedes Benz into a Queens Kosher grocery today, mowing down a customer and giving everyone else in the store the scare of their lives.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has denied a motion for a new trial for a former kosher meatpacking plant executive convicted of financial fraud following an immigration raid on the Iowa plant.
After Tishrei’s marathon of simcha and spiritual elevation, many people find themselves faced with the daunting task of returning to another kind of race – the rat race.
Zalman and Chani Wolowik (Woodmere, NY)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, Crown Street Preschool held a package party, for the mothers of the yeshiva children.
Last month, four men allegedly surrounded an Israeli man who was visiting Crown Heights for the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and punched him in the face. The man, 36, knocked on the door of a nearby Jewish home at midnight. The residents called Shomrim, a group of orthodox Jewish men who patrol the neighborhood. The Shomrim arrived at the scene and called police, who are investigating it as a possible hate crime. All four assailants were black.
Isser and Devorah Leah (nee Kirschenbaum) New (Crown Heights)
We are pleased to present our twenty-first online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
NY1 — Two of the men convicted in the 2007 shooting death of a police officer in Brooklyn are now being charged in another shooting that happened 24 hours earlier.
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