At the Great Parade on Lag Baomer, Darchai Menachem made sure that as many of their students as possible could participate in the drumming band, welcoming boys from fourth grade all the way through Mesivta.
Crown Heights photographer Mendelsphotography captured the moments at the Crown Heights community Lag B’Omer Bonfire 5783.
The most recent AreivimUSA collection was on behalf of a Crown Heights family that has lost a parent. The notice also identified Rabbi Chaim Fogelman of Itchke’s Shteibel as the Crown Heights Rov that will oversee the funds.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that 32 alleged members of the 8 Trey Crips and its affiliate, the 9 Ways gang, were indicted for possessing guns, and using stolen cars during shootings, to eliminate rivals.
The Jewish Future Alliance (JFA) is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individuals responsible for a reported robbery at Railroad Pizza on Monday night, May 8th.
Every afternoon, between 1:30 and 4:30 pm, you can walk into a small shul across from 770 and find a group of ten women sitting at tables across from each other with seforim open in front of them, engrossed in lively discussion and debate over the texts they are learning. These are the students of the Batsheva Learning Center’s Brookly Beis Midrash.
Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz—co-director of Chabad of Nepal with his wife, Chani—went to the base of Mt. Everest together with a group of British Jews on a group trek. Can you imagine praying in a place like this?
In a true display of unity and compassion, over 500 women of all ages came together for a Hakhel Breakfast aimed at celebrating the remarkable Bikur Cholim community. With inspiring speakers, a heartfelt video presentation, beautiful decor, and an outpouring of generosity, this event was as uplifting and meaningful as it was enjoyable.
An enormous, rare cargo of 1,800-year-old marble artifacts, borne in a merchant ship that was shipwrecked in a storm, was uncovered in the coastal waters of Moshav Beit Yanai, north of Netanya. This is the oldest sea cargo of its kind known in the Eastern Mediterranean.
A man was shot in the back on Kingston Ave Tuesday morning. He was transported to the hospital by a NYC Ambulance.
A historic Siyum Harambam event took place on the rooftop of the Rambam’s home in Fez Morocco, as a regional Kinus Hashluchim with representatives from Europe and Africa is underway in the city.
Oholei Torah recently hosted a heartfelt dedication ceremony at its newly opened Popack Beis Medrash on the Remsen Mesivta Campus. The event honored the memory of Rabbi Yisroel Meir Popack, a”h, who served as the Head Shliach to the State of Colorado.
liezer Shefer serves as chairman of the World Organization of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora. In 1971, he and two of his colleagues had an audience with the Rebbe.
After ten years of providing programming for women, Living Chassidus has opened a seperate men’s division.
Author and Historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin gives a moving tribute to Rabbi Yona Pruss OBM, a Shliach in London who brought much simcha to others.
Two masked thugs looking for trouble in Crown Heights found some on Sunday, harassing a person and attempting to hold up a store.
Meny Stambler (Kamensky, Ukraine) to Chana Besan (Tel Avivm Israel)
