Lidl, the rapidly growing supermarket chain in Brooklyn, has nabbed a coveted 33,000 square foot piece of Crown Heights Real Estate in a deal that will bring the supermarket to the edge of Crown Heights.
The U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.
It’s midwinter vacation at many Jewish day schools and yeshivahs across North America, and in the warm and sunny Caribbean island of Aruba, Rabbi Ahron Blasberg is hard at work koshering two restaurants in anticipation of the many Jewish families he’s expecting to arrive at the small island over the next few weeks.
Moti and Zlata (nee Nisselevitch) Levin from Caen, France had a baby girl!
In the spirit of Hakhel and Chassidim Ein Mishpacha, Bachurim from YTTL and OT energized a Bar Mitzvah celebration for a French boy who came to have his Aliya by the Rebbe
Harav Dovid Moshe Rosenbaum, the Rebbe of Kretshnif who lives in Kiryat Gat, is on a visit to New York and made a visit to 770 earlier on this week. He also made a stop at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
Areivim USA has announced that they are raising the payout amount per orphan, to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Crown Heights Shomrim has released an Alert notifying the community of a series of incidents that have taken place near the Schenectady/Eastern Parkway subway station, and are asking people to be vigilant.
Terrible news has surfaced Thursday night with reports from the FAA that a small plane that took off from JFK crashed near Westchester Airport. Two Jewish men were allegedly on board.
The Kharkov Jewish community had a lot to celebrate this past week as four members of their community, including a 6-month-old, a 4-year-old, a 9-year-old and a man in his 50s received a brit milah.
In his letter, the Rebbe addresses the age-old question of why it is that the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. Tragedies which our people have endured over the centuries of our history – have not deterred us from fulfilling our mission.
If you’ve ever walked past the warm and brightly lit waiting room of Kamin Urgent Care while walking or driving late at night near Lefferts and Kingston, and noticed the comfortable chairs and large screen playing kosher entertainment and thought “Hmm, that place seems nice” before moving on, today I’d like to invite you to take a second look.
Rabbi Sholom & Dinie Ciment established Chabad in this central Palm Beach County region over 28 years ago. They arrived to a spiritually desolate region with nothing in terms of Jewish infrastructure existing. Now, this Sunday, the Siyum on Sefer Taharah also saw hundreds gathered to dedicate Chabad’s newly remodeled Mei Menachem Young Family Mikvah of Greater Boynton, Florida.
Oholei Torah launches an auction emphasizing the vital importance of a timeless חסידישע חינוך.
Kalman Ezagui (Palm Beach, FL)t o Miri Shanowitz (Crown Heights)
A few weeks ago moments before Shabbos a simple sign was hung on the bulletin board of Yeshiva Bais Shalom Postville “Rabbi Karp will be Farbenging after the Seudah in the dining hall”. That Farbrengen led to a debate on the question, “Does the world really exist?”
A fine bronze coin, dating from the second year of the Bar Kochba Revolt (133 CE), was discovered in the Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological excavations carried out with the help of volunteers in four caves in the Nahal Darga Nature Reserve.
