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Amidst ’91 Coup, Russian Jewry Kept Summer Camps Open

Children and their counselors pose for a group photo at a Chabad-Lubavitch run summer camp outside Moscow in the early 1990s.

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.

TRAGEDY: Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mrs. Suri Crawford OBM

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.

The Long Road Back From Boxing Oblivion

The Wall Street Journal

Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita prays next to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site in Jerusalem’s Old City, on Dec. 9, just days after losing a WBA lightweight title bout to Great Britain’s Amir Khan in Newcastle, England.

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.

Archaeologist: Structure Beneath Temple Mount is 2nd Beis HaMikdash

World Net Daily

Dr. Eilat Mazar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeologist, points to the tenth century excavations that were uncovered under her direction in the Ophel area adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo: Sasson Tiram

One of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists declared today that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple period – including the Second Temple itself – lie underneath the Temple Mount surface, just waiting to be excavated.

NYC to Use Phone Data to Track Public Services

NY Times

When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand.