Police officers traveling on Empire Boulevard were involved in a head on collision last night, Monday. The incident took place at around 11:00pm at the intersection of Empire and Bedford, where a turning SUV collided with the police car.
Over the past couple of days there has been a petition circling the internet requesting that former CEO of Agriprocessors Kosher slaughterhouse, Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin be allowed to spend Pesach with his family in Postville, IA.
TACOMA, WA — Reading Brent Emery’s On Faith column in November 2009, “Learning to pray from a Jewish perspective,” and the recent first anniversary of the terror attacks in Mumbai, where the murders of the young Rabbi and his wife, Gabbi, and Rivki Holtzberg occurred, motivated me to introduce Chabad, an organization probably little known to Gateway readers.
Benyamin and Chanie (nee Newman) Kosofsky (Crown Heights)
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Tinok ben Chana Sara Rivka
An extremely premature born baby that needs all the help he can get.
In honor of the sixtieth year of the Rebbe’s neshius and inspired by the Rebbe’s call to reach the “fifth son”, six hundred bochurim will be going out on Merkos Shlichus to over two hundred and eighty cities this Pesach in the largest group ever sent.
In the week since a massive flood devastated the Wellesley-Weston Chabad House, community members have rallied together to help clean up and rebuild. Dozens of community members donated their time to completely gut what was once the Chabad House’s finished basement, including several guest rooms, storage rooms, and the Rabbi and Rebbetzin’s offices.
This Thursday, March 25, Sixty Mitzvah ‘Tanks’ will parade through the steets of downtown Manhattan in honor of the 108th anniversary of the Rebbe’s Birth. The annual Mitzvah Tank Parade, a project of the Mitzvah Tank Org, will begin at 11:00 am at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn.
From the flames of the Menorah, to the flames of the Matzah oven. The 120 Stones used to build a grand menorah on the square of “29 of March,” in Curitiba, Parana – for this year Chanukah, has now been reused.
ISRAEL [INN] — The Israel Agriculture Association has announced that dairy cows will begin receiving kosher for Passover bedding this week, and beginning next week, will get kosher for Passover food as well.
Zalman Menache (Michael) Linder (Pompano Beach, FL) and Elanit Kayne (Crown Heights)
Dovid Leib and Baily (nee Geisinsky) Silberstein (Montreal Canada)
The widow of a Brooklyn-born rabbi, murdered two years ago by terrorists in Mumbai, is facing an immigration nightmare that threatens to keep her from seeing her eight children in New York.
Chabad of Simcha Monica and the “Mitzvos on the spot for people on the go” cart were spotted at the finish line of the LA marathon, in which over 25,000 runners participated. They put on Teffilin with the runners as well as friends and family who came to congratulate them.
OTTAWA — The Sinai Scholars Society study program was honoured to have Rabbi Reuven Bulka address the graduates and award them each with a certificate and gift. The graduation ceremony was held at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Tuesday, March 16.
Chabad on Campus UK is proud to announce the opening of a new Chabad Lubavitch House serving Jewish students at Liverpool universities.
In the next academic term, Rabbi Shmuli Brown and family, will open their home as a ‘home away from home’ for Jewish students from all backgrounds, as well as offering a full program of exciting events, including weekly Friday night Shabbat dinners, educational classes and social programs
Joined by regional chief rabbis from throughout central Ukraine, Jewish residents of Krivoy Rog celebrated two milestones this month when they laid the foundation stone for a future kindergarten and sports complex, and commenced writing a new Torah scroll to be used at a nearby synagogue.
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