Crown Heights Eruv Is Up!
Despite opposition from local Halachic authorities, an Eruv has been erected around Crown Heights for the first time in history, enabling Jewish residents who choose to use it to carry and push strollers on Shabbos.
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ULY-Flatbush Hosts Mishnayos Be’al Peh Award Ceremony
On Rosh Chodesh Adar I, the students of the United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth of Flatbush were introduced to a Mishnyaos Be’Al Peh program. The program, which ran through Yud Alef Nissan, was prepared in honor of the Rebbe’s 114th birthday.
Terrorists Dressed as Chareidim Attack Tel Aviv Market
As many as nine people were injured, some of them critically, when terrorists opened fire with automatic weapons in the area of Sarona Market in Tel Aviv, Israel. Reports say the terrorists were dressing in Hassidic garb. Update: Four of the victims have died.
Yeshiva Student Assaulted by Truant Public School Teens
A group of young teenagers who were ‘playing hooky’ from a local public school walked past the Oholei Torah Mesivta Boys High School and started an altercation with the students there, which escalated until one Yeshiva student received multiple blows to the head. To make matters worse, police officers refused to take action and as of this moment have still not charged the assailant – citing fear of riots. UPDATE: Police have charged the assailant with assault as a hate crime.
Shliach Meets with German Foreign Minister
German Foreign Minister, Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier has met let night (Tuesday) with Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin and the Shliach to the city. The meeting took place on the margins of an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of relations between the state of Israel and Germany.
Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center in Lockdown
Lubavitch Educational Center, South Florida’s flagship Chabad school, is currently in precautionary lockdown as police pursue armed gunmen after a dramatic car chase ended in the vicinity.
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Assailant: Attack on Jewish Boy ‘Was to Win a Bet’
A black youth who attacked a Jewish student and stole his hat and Yarmulka admitted to targeting the boy due to his religion, and said the attack was part of a ‘bet’ between the assailant and his friends.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R. Dovid Goldstein, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Dovid Goldstein OBM, a senior member of Anash in Tzfat and a former resident of Bnei Brak and Boro Park. He merited to attend a Yechidus with the Frierdiker Rebbe as well as his Levaya. Updated.
117-Year-Old Shiur Makes 45th Siyum on Mishna
A special ceremony was held in Yerushalaim to celebrate the world’s longest standing shiur. Chevra Mishnayos of Colel Chabad completed all six volumes of Mishnayos and celebrated with the many guests who arrived at the Eshel Yerushalaim soup kitchen to take part in this special occasion.
Stabber Found Mentally Unfit to Stand Trial
During a court appearance earlier this week, the man arrested in connection with the stabbing of Yehuda Leib Brikman on a Crown Heights street was found unfit to stand trial due to mental illness.
Community Leaders and City Reps Pledge to Fight Hate
A meeting between the mayor’s office and activists and leaders from both the Jewish and African-American communities met to discuss a recent spike in hate crimes against the Jewish community, and allay community fears of growing racial tension.
R' Chaim Parnes, OBM (L), and R' Yitzchok Rosenberg, OBM (R).
Tragedy: Two Chasidic Men Drown in Miami
Two prominent members of the Satmar Chasidic community in New York passed away this morning in a tragic accident on a Miami area Beach, where they were pulled into the sea by a riptide.
3 Additional Juveniles Arrested in Bus Burning
Three Additional Juveniles, a 12-year old and two 14-year-old’s, were arrested Thursday evening in connection with the arson burning of a Jewish owned school bus in Crown Heights.
2nd Child Arrested in Connection with School Bus Arson
Police have announced the arrest of a second 11-year-old boy in connection with the arson of a school bus outside a Jewish school in Crown Heights earlier this week.
Bais Rivkah Day Camp Announces Head Staff
Bais Rivka Day Camp is gearing up once again for an all-time exciting summer under the third-year directorship of Mrs. Sarale Blau and assistant Sarah Kupfer, who have been working tirelessly on creating a safe and stimulating camp experience for children and teens in Crown Heights.
“Financial Crisis” Forces Beis Rivkah Closure
Following Pesach vacation, some 1,500 students in Beis Rivkah will remain home on the day that should have been their first day back. A message from the school blamed the closure on a “financial crisis”.
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