Tennessee’s latest woes include high unemployment, continuing foreclosures and a battle over collective-bargaining rights for teachers. But when a Republican representative took the Statehouse floor during a recent hearing, he warned of a new threat to his constituents’ way of life: Islamic law.
“When everyone else was leaving the neighborhood, we stayed,” said Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council. “We said, ‘we have nothing to be afraid of; this is our community too, we can work together.’”
The brutal murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky continues to break New York’s heart. Shocking details of his death have brought home the fears of many parents about raising kids in the city. The Daily News convened a group of readers with young children and grandchildren to explore the impact of the tragedy:
Two special Crown Heights organizations will be pooling their talent to raise money by running the ING New York City Marathon this November. Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights and the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn will join together to accomplish more than they can on their own.
Ask people what their favorite place is in America, and you will get many and varied answers. For some, the answer will be sites of natural beauty, such as the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone National Park. For others, the answer will be places of historic interest in Washington, D.C., such as the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, and the Washington Monument. For those who live for life’s excitement, the answer will be the dazzling skylines of Manhattan or Chicago.
You will get your most unusual answer from me: My favorite place in the United States of America is Brooklyn, New York, for its present, past, and future!
Can students learn, understand and remember what they learned cumulatively, for weeks? Perhaps the best answer to that question resides with the master torah program. At the Kinus Hamechanchim Rabbi Meir Pagrow will teach the Melamdim how.
Over the past few years, images of the Rubashkin family have been freeze-framed in our consciousness: The meat plant. The raid. The living room. The courtroom scenes. The rallies…These scenes have been seared on our collective memory. The Rubashkins, though, have chosen to move forward. They’ve relocated and recalculated, adjusting the rhythm and routine of daily life to meet new challenges.
She was not in the public eye. Yet, the Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka’s inspiration is widespread—a result of her quiet ways and nuances of influence.
Northeast Pennsylvania saw the largest Lag B’Omer celebration in its history on Sunday, May 22 in Wilkes-Barre, where the local Chabad community organized a day of Jewish Pride and community unity.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Terrance Nelson, Crown Heightses most infamous car burglar, was arrested last night after an encounter with a group of Bochurim. Nelson was attacked and beaten after they accused him of breaking into a car, police later arrested him based on his history and the allegations.
This year’s annual Jewish Children’s Museum dinner will feature a sneak preview of the highly anticipated fourth floor.
Genetic engineering is only permissible by Jewish law when it is used to preserve life, and it should not be used in pursuit of specific personality and physical traits, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Chabad’s scholar-in-residence from Harvard University, said during a talk in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.
KAWKAWLIN, MI — In a shop just off M-13, in a small township called Kawkawlin Township, Michigan, a team of six artists has worked for the past month to recreate an ancient and significant piece of history now on its way to Crown Heights.
Apparently, the black pinched Borssalino, a familiar sight on the heads of Lubavitcher Chassidim in Crown Heights and worldwide, is the latest fashion craze in town.
It was a beautiful sunny day as I recall. An early spring breeze licked eagerly at passersby like a hungry cat lapping up a bowl of milk. I flipped up the pressed collar of my finest holiday shirt to ward off the affectionate but persistent gust of nature.
Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.
The Rebbe’s call of “Ufaratzta” – reaching out to every Jew wherever they may be, was heard yet again in Crown Heights. This past Motzei Shabbos 30 of the Rebbe’s “Tankistin” gathered together for a special Melavah Malkah.
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