Joseph Esposito, the department’s highest-ranking officer and its third in command, will leave the force after more than 44 years, more than 12 of them as the longest-serving chief in department history, with a reputation as a steady strategist, a cop’s cop and a loyal defender of the agency with enough charisma to doff his hat at protesters.
March 25th at sundown begins the holiday of Pesach. The Jewish community in Ulyanovsk is in full swing preparing for Pesach. Much has been done. Every member of the community is involved in cleaning and getting rid of Chametz. After cleaning the kitchen in the cafe, the kitchen was Kashered and lined with silver foil.
Prospect Park officials are urging Jews to stop throwing bread into the green space’s massive lake as a Passover rite, but religious Brooklynites insist that’s not even part of their holiday tradition.
Reb Zalman Shimon Dworkin, the Rav and Mora D’asra of the Crown Heights community for twenty years, was born in 1901 in Rogotchov to Reb Yerucham and Rivka. Reb Zalman Shimon’s father was a G-d fearing person and a teacher of unique caliber who taught children unable to afford tuition. Despite his resultant poverty, Reb Yerucham moved his son from the cheder where he was learning to that of Reb Elozor Garelik. Reb Elozor was an expert and searched after teacher whose students generally were from more affluent families.
When Julio Acevedo was arraigned last month on a drunken driving bust, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Gary refused to set bail and declined to suspend the ex-con’s license, even though he told it was mandatory. ‘I don’t believe that I must do it,’ he said, saying a judge presiding Accevedo’s next court date on April 10 could ‘correct’ him if he was wrong. He should have never been behind the wheel.
To write about Reb Gedalia is not an easy task. Many people in the community described him as a Baal-Habos working to support his family, whereas his main interest in life was studying Torah. Reb Gedalia was a person who by example taught people the value of time. He conducted himself as a Baal Midos par excellence and kept religiously to a structured schedule. Sitting at the computer and waiting for the program to load, he would have a sefer in front of him, so as not to waste even a minute or two of time
Up until a short while ago, that’s how your typical Russian University student would respond to the suggestion he go to Yeshiva. Me? Yeshiva? Enter Yeshivacation. A ten day getaway, packed with intellectual stimuli and excitement.
Park Slope has not been home to a kosher restaurant, well, ever. That changed when owners of a popular authentic French Bistro decided to make a change. Along with a new name, a French chef and Kosher certification, Chagall reopened earlier this week.
Chernigov is a picturesque city in the north of Ukraine. Before it was struck by the twin Hamans of Stalin and Hitler, Chernigov had a thriving Jewish population. It was a Chassidic city, led by illustrious rabbis, and full of a rich Jewish life.
Preparations for this year’s Lag Bo’omer parade are well underway at NCFJE headquarters in Crown Heights.
At the southern tip of the west coast of Canada, in Surrey British Columbia, Jews celebrated Purim al Italia II.
For many Jewish college students, Chabad organizations on campuses around the world provide a home away from home. There are Chabad centers on more than 140 campuses worldwide, and Lehigh’s campus is no exception. Alumni, faculty and students suggested to the […]
Students from the Oholei Torah Mechina division enjoyed a grand breakfast in honor of Tes Adar, commemorating the auspicious day in which the Frierdiker Rebbe came to America.
On Motzei Shabbos, Shluchim Rabbi Schneur and Chanie Wilhelm of Chabad of Milford and the Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont held a event to kick-off the restoration and building of their new Jewish Center.
An individual with a colorful history in his short time in the neighborhood was captured on surveillance video stealing an iPad from the backpack of a man who was attending a Simcha in Crown Heights.
The question presented at the Hadas Gallery at the Rohr Jewish Center serving Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., was “What is Jewish Art?” Since it was an artists’ talk, a diverse palette was to be expected. The answers, of course, ran the gamut of Jewish art history, style and perspective.
Moshie was distraught. He sat in his office, head in hands, willing the numbers to go away. They just didn’t add up. Months of work, thousands of dollars invested, and a brilliant idea lay shattered before him.
