After it’s major success this past year, Yeshivas YNS of New Jersey announced its new summer program this season with director Rabbi ‘O’ and head counselor Moishe Orimland. The program is geared for boys ages 14 to 17.
New York developer Bruce Ratner announced a plan to fill 2,000 jobs at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, near Crown Heights. Full Story
by Faye Davis – Chabad.org When I was 16 years old I decided I didn’t want to be Jewish anymore.
The Jewish group enjoying a full day at the Legoland theme park is being called California’s largest Chol Hamoed field-trip. Full Story, Photos, Video
by Anonymous File Photo: Farbrengen for lone soldiers at Mordy Botnick’s ‘the Rebbe’s Infantry.’ I’m a soldier, AKA I.D. # 7756395. While that’s my identity on base, this letter is to convey my appreciation of and gratitude to the people who remind me of my true identity.
A pedestrian crossing Empire Blvd. on the corner of Kingston Ave. was struck by a vehicle this morning. The victim was an African-American female in her late 20s. A city ambulance took to her to Kings County Hospital for treatment.
by Mordechai Lightstone – Lubavitch.com Cabo S. Lucas sits at the tip of the Baja California peninsula. Once a small fishing town, it’s been reborn in the last decade as a tourist hotspot.
by Esti Karniel Photo: Shturem Busy roads, choking air and thousands of people wandering the streets, tired after a tedious day at work. Children and homeless toddlers are scattered between sidewalks and begging mothers.
Years ago Rabbi Meir Kessler couldn’t believe there were Jewish drug addicts. Now, he hosted a Florida Shabbaton for them. Full Story
Chassidim and bochurim walked up to 3 hours to visit shuls in New York’s five boroughs on the last days of Pesach. Full Story
by Shmuly Yanklowitz – LA Jewish Journal An AJWS volunteer in Ghana, Africa. This is the story of two Jewish organizations. Neither receives the proper credit they deserve for the global diaspora revolutions they are inspiring.
by Rabbi Michoel Seligson Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Eizik Hodakov was born in 1902 and passed away in 1993 * Was the Rebbe’s chief secretary for more than 40 years * Became principal of a Jewish school in Latvia at the age of 18 * Was appointed the head of Jewish education for the…
Thousands from around the tri-state area have visited the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights this Chol Hamoed Pesach, being the first to experience the all new exhibit “A Voyage Through Jewish History.” Photos
by Rabbi Michoel Seligson In honor of his yahrzeit on the tenth of Nissan * Reb Yitzchok Nemes was a great Yireh Shomayim with refined midos. His entire life was an unbroken circle consisting of concern for others, being mzake horabim and involving himself in activities that…
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A few weeks ago an accident in the intersection of Empire and Albany sent a pickup truck smashing through the storefront of the liquor store on that corner. It nearly happened again, and surveillance video captured the incident.
by Adam Dickter – Jewish Week The Mitzpe Ramon Chabad House, a replica of 770 Eastern Parkway. When it came time to observe my mother’s first yahrzeit last week, I was in Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev.
by Bentzion Elisha The Holocaust shattered both their spirit and any sense of spirituality. Even though their bodies made it alive out of the German murderous ashes of death, any visible connection to Judaism or the Creator did not survive the war.
KSCVK and Nechama’s Closet have announced the winners of their raffle – the top winner receiving $100,000. Winners
by Rabbi Michoel Seligson Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shemtov, fondly referred to by Anash as Reb Mendel, was born in Poltova on the 28th of Sivan in 1933 to Horav Hachossid Reb Benzion and his wife Golda.
