Last week the plans for the new womens Mikvah on Lefferts and Troy were approved and this Sunday there will be a groundbreaking. The entire community is invited to watch, say Mazal Tov and have a Lechaim!
Over the past few months Arele’s Bagels, formerly Crown Hot Bagels, has reshaped its store and menu. Yesterday it added another touch, changing its 23 year old sign and joining in the many Kingston Avenue stores who have invested in beautiful facades.
Chaya Tzirel Druk, Berel Junik, Shmuel Junik and Aaron Junik are sitting Shiva for their mother, Mrs. Sara Junik.
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Shachris 7:00am and 9:00am
Mincha and Maarive B’zman
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who at the age of 28, became the youngest member ever to serve as a judge in the Israeli rabbinical courts, and later served for a decade as Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi, succumbed Monday afternoon to a prolonged illness. He was 81.
Born in 1929 in Jerusalem’s Old City, Eliyahu was orphaned from his father at the age of 11. He spent his childhood in poverty, and devoted his energies to studying Jewish texts night and day under the tutelage of the city’s leading scholars and Kabbalists. He became proficient in rabbinic law under legal authority and future Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissam.
Have you ever walked in to a restaurant to have a quiet peacefull meal and there is an annoying kid next to you? Watch what happens.
The campaign to save 1,000 interviews for the My Encounter with the Rebbe oral history project is in full swing, with people around the world donating and promoting the project.
To date, 366 people of diverse backgrounds have been interviewed about their encounters with the Rebbe. But there’s still so much more to learn!
Rhonda Greenberg, a prominent psychologist from Pennsylvania describes her experience at the National Jewish Retreat.
Yuri Foreman suffered a torn meniscus and stretched a ligament in his right knee when he fell awkwardly in the seventh round of his championship fight with Miguel Cotto Saturday night at Yankee Stadium. He will have surgery soon to repair the injuries, but once he’s healed he’d like a rematch.
This past Tuesday night, four hundred members of Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side’s community, joined ten IDF soldiers on a grand two hour cruise along the Hudson river. The cruise was an opportunity for the community to meet and thank ten hero’s of Am Yisrael in a fun, relaxing and enjoyable setting while enjoying music, great food, open bar, and a variety of entertainment booths.
David Habibi of Chabad Academy spelled both of his words correctly in the second and third rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but the fifth-grader failed to make it to the semifinals of the contest in Washington, D.C.
The Glenmorangie Company and Moet Hennessy USA announced today that Glenmorangie Original, Scotland’s favorite single malt, has become kosher certified by the Orthodox Union (OU), the world’s largest and most respected kosher certification agency. Additionally, its pioneering new expression, Glenmorangie Astar, has also become kosher-certified.
As he looked out at the audience of teenagers in the sanctuary on the Kushner campus in Livingston on May 25, Israel’s consul general in New York smiled and spoke of his nation’s president, Shimon Peres.
BROOKLYN — They endured the most horrifying persecutions imaginable…witnessed the murder of family and friends by their Nazi oppressors…yet somehow they managed to survive the Holocaust that had destroyed their world, emigrating to America to raise families and build a promising new world for themselves.
As with the candidates for Vaad, the candidates for Gaboim of 770 were also given the opportunity to present their platform and mission for the Shul.
This Wednesday Oholei Torah is hosting an evening of awareness, dubbed ‘Protect Your Child.’ The evening is all about educating, guiding and supporting parents and educators on the topic of safeguarding children,
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