On March 1st, 1994, a Lebanese terrorist named Rashid Baz opened fire on a van full of Lubavitcher Bochurim on the Brooklyn Bridge. In the attack Ari Halberstam HYD was killed. 18 years after the murder, which shocked the world, we present a collection of photos and news broadcasts which gave broad coverage to the incident.
Israel’s Iron Dome rocket shield has aced its first serious test. Gaza’s Hamas rulers have been careful to stay on the sidelines. And Islamic Jihad — now closer to Iran than is its larger rival Hamas — is taking the lead in this round against Israel.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Konstantin Grishchenko, visited the Kotel (Western Wall) on Sunday. He was accompanied by Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Reuven Dinel, and Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel, Hennadii Nadolenko. The three were led by Rabbi Mordechai Elihav, the Director-General of the Wall Heritage Foundation and Rabbi Yossi Kurzweil of Chabad, who was recently appointed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to oversee the relations between the Jewish organizations in Ukraine and the Foreign Ministry.
He is a 30-year-old college student who gets by on loans and freelance jobs as a legal assistant and public notary. He does not have a bank account. He does not have a credit card. When he says he lives paycheck to paycheck, he means it quite literally: If he runs out of the money he keeps in the (sometimes torn) pocket of his pants, it means he has nothing until his next check comes along.
Yeshivas Kayitz – Tzeirei HaShluchim Tzfat concluded another fun, powerful, and exciting summer program. For six incredible weeks the Yeshiva’s Yisroel Aryeh Leib – Colel Chabad campus in Tzfat was filled with the sound of 80 talmidim and 20 madrichim from 770 learning and playing.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is shrugging off a report that the squeegee men have returned to the streets of New York.
As toll hikes took effect Sunday on bridges and tunnels between New York and New Jersey, drivers complained they would look for alternate routes to save money. But there appeared to be little they could do to escape higher costs except stay home.
There are radiation detection boats in the waters, cameras that have been placed all over lower and Midtown Manhattan and there are cops with guns and tanks and all kinds of weapons, because in New York a terror attack could come from anywhere, and anyone.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a terror threat against the city is credible but not corroborated.
New York City officials say they’re preparing for the total shutdown of the nation’s largest mass transit system.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today declared a state of emergency in New York in preparation for the potential impact of Hurricane Irene, which may hit New York State this coming weekend.
As the world watched hard-line Communists make their last-ditch effort 20 years ago to reclaim control of the fracturing Soviet Union, a young Rabbi Berel Lazar was due to return to Moscow. Lazar, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was then rabbi of the Russian capital’s Marina Roscha district, had been in New York attending to his wife and newborn baby. The August coup of 1991 – known popularly as the Putsch – began a day before their scheduled return.
The Port Authority, its proposed huge toll hikes dialed down by Govs. Cuomo and Christie, approved an increase Friday of $1.50 for E-ZPass drivers beginning next month. The PA board unanimously voted yes on the proposal following a 60-minute meeting largely devoid of drama or disgust. The new prices are effective Sept. 18.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority has long been planning to bring cell phone and WiFi service to New York City subways.
A pair of bizarre trespassing incidents at two of the region’s major airports, including one in Newark on Saturday, have heightened concerns about airport perimeter security.
With great pain and sadness we inform you of the tragic and untimely passing of Mrs. Suri Crawford OBM, longtime resident of Crown Heights, at the age of 60.
Suri is survived by her three children Nechama Witriol (Kirias Joel, NY), Yitzchok (Jerusalem, Israel), and Yisroel (Crown Heights), as well as her mother and two sisters Barb, and Judy.
Seventy-six seconds. That’s how long it lasted. On Dec. 5, 2009, Dmitriy Salita, a Brooklyn native, faced Amir Khan, the WBA light welterweight champion, at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England.
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