The NYPD has announced that they are beefing up security around the city, and are in close touch their French counterparts and the FBI, following the horrific terror attacks in Paris.
Thursday, the first day of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, was celebrated in a chassidishe manner and exciting spirit in the East Flatbush Kindergarten of Oholei Torah.
A 40-year-old Israeli man was attacked and stabbed multiple times while walking in Milan, Italy. Initial reports say he attacked by three Arab assailents – one of whom may have been a woman. The victim was rushed to the hospital in serious condition.
Released just in time for the International Kinus Hashluchim, ‘Bring Out the Light’ is the title track from singer Menachem Levy‘s debut album.
Rabbi Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin, OBM, who passed away yesterday at the age of 62, related the following story that he experienced while on Shlichus in Erezt Yisroel during the Lebanon war in 1982. The story was transcribed by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne, who heard it from Rabbi Ceitlin at a Farbrengen, and later shared the transcription with him to review for accuracy.
Police are investigating an incident where a ‘Molotov cocktail’ was thrown at two Yeshiva students who were walking on a busy street in midtown Manhattan. UPDATE: NYPD sources confirm this incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The perpetrator reportedly said “I will come back with a knife and kill you”.
In the ultimate celebration of life, a band made up of Holocaust survivors debuts in their first music video, sharing the spotlight with Chasidic superstar Lipa Schmeltzer.
A notorious Lefferts Avenue drug den was raided by the NYPD on Thursday night and a large stash of drugs was found. Five people were taken into custody while a sixth managed to escape and police mounted a massive search.
The wave of Palestinian terror continues, as another three stabbing attacks occurred in Israel today, following three similar attacks that occurred yesterday.
Update: Fourth stabbing attack today occurs in Afula.
In the third such attack today, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed a 25-year-old Lubavitcher man from Kfar Chabad in the central Israeli city of Petach Tikvah.
A portion of a “seemingly never-ending dispute” in New York Federal Court came to an end when a district judge dismissed a major part of a lawsuit filed by Vaad L’Hafotzas Sichos and Zalman Chanin against Merkos and Aguc”h over the printing of the Rebbe’s Sichos.
While many Haredi and Chassidic communities continue to reject modern technologies, the Rebbe always maintained that the “ultimate purpose for which these new technologies were developed is that they be used for holy purposes“. This position dated back in the 1960s, when the Rebbe pioneered broadcasting of Torah and farbrengens around the world.
Ben-Tzion Davis is an Orthodox-Jewish Electronic Engineering Technician living in New York. After learning of the tragic story of the Sassoon family of Flatbush, in which a Shabbos hotplate caused a fire that lead to the death of seven children r”l, he was determined to reinvent the appliance to be as safe as possible, so as to prevent such tragedies from ever reoccurring.
When Menachem Mendel Rosenblum turned 12, his father began calling Sofrim to purchase Tefillin. “I received several estimates over the phone,” Rabbi Yisroel Rosenblum recalls, “but one offer stood out.”
It’s been almost two years since Jewish children were introduced to Bella Bracha, and have been singing “I’m going to a wedding” on endless loops ever since. Bella Bracha Vol. 2 is almost ready, and some of the cast recorded a quick update for their little fans.
On Friday afternoon, mere hours before Shabbos, the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, a suburb of Jerusalem, sent a tractor to dismantle a makeshift Chabad Shul that had been erected the night before on municipal land. But swift and brave action by members of the community prevented its destruction.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of R’ Yossi Piamenta, OBM, a well-known and talented musician who merited to bring joy to hundreds of thousands of Jews with his music. He was 64 years old. Update: Levaya times added. Passing by 770.
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