With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of yet another member of the Rebbe’s army: Rabbi Motty Gal, OBM, head Shliach to Ramat Gan, Israel. He was 62 years old.
With great sadness, shock and deep pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, Shlucha to Alpharetta, Georgia. She was 37 years old, and left behind a grieving husband, eight children and community. Levaya Times Added.
Position: Executive Secretary
Requirements: Comfortable composing letters, scheduling visits, communicating with clients. Intuitive and self-starter.
Experience: Previous office experience preferred.
Long term commitment only. Based in our Crown Heights office. Must be legal to work in the U.S.
Please send your resume to jobs@ok.org, subject “Executive Secretary”.
Sholom and Shaina (nee Rabiski) Rapoport (Crown Heights)
Steadfast to its continued commitment to offering the most wholesome summer camp experience both b’gashmius and b’ruchnius, Camp Emunah B’nos Yaakov Yehudah has just announced the hiring of a new Ruchnius Team for its Jr. Division.
For two years Rabbi Hershy Bronstein tried to buy the vacant Buffalo Southwestern Café building in Coral Springs, Florida to convert it into a Chabad synagogue. But it took the help of an evangelical Christian and divine providence to make the purchase happen.
A little over a week ago, Leah Lipszyc left Simferopol, the Crimean city where she and her husband have been the Chabad emissaries for the past 22 years.
In honor of Tes Adar, the day the Frierdiker Rebbe arrived in America, the girls of Cheder Lubavitch of Morristown and Cheder Menachem Shluchim School in New Jersey joined together for a special program.
On this day, 9 Adar II, in 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe stepped of the boat that took him from war-torn Europe onto the Piers of New York City and declared “America iz nisht andersh” (America is no different). Here too would a network of Yeshivos, Chadorim, Shuls and Chasidishe institutions be built, despite the overwhelming secularism of America’a Jewish population.
Shmulik (ben R’ Moshe) Moscowitz (Chicago, IL) and Yael Michaan (S. Paulo, Brazil)
L’chaim will be tonight at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
When I read the news this morning that two teenage girls of the Lev Tahor sect are undergoing a hunger strike after being separated from their parents by Canadian authorities, I came to the conclusion that I could no longer remain silent in the face of such a grave injustice. After all, if we don’t speak out for them, who will speak out when they come for our children?
On Monday evening in the Oholei Torah ballroom, 100 member of the Crown Heights community, mother and fathers, gathered to receive guidance from a panel of veteran educators on the topic ‘Raising Chasidim in America Today.’
Chabad of Hunterdon County hosted its fifth Annual auction at the Beaver Brook Country Club in Annandale, NJ on Sunday, March 9th with over 200 in attendance. Auction winners in the Extended Article!
Just in time for Purim, the Rebbe’s entire Farbrengen of Purim, 5732 (1972) has been restored and released on DVD by JEM.
At a Rosh Chodesh Kislev Farbrengen in 770 in 5750 (1989), Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, OBM describes how the Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day School in Chicago was bought with a miracle from the Rebbe.
400 female students packed into the Chabad Center of Binghamton University Thursday evening for the sixth annual Fashion for a Cure event, raising money and awareness for cancer. The fashion show raised $5,173 for Sharsheret, a nonprofit organization that promotes awareness and offers support to women battling the disease.
“More than the Jews have kept the Shabbos, Shabbos has kept the Jews,” our sages declared. Rarely was this more apparent than this past Shabbos, when a Malaysia Airline flight mysteriously disappeared without a trace.
While in New York City at the beginning of the year, Rabbi Levy Wineberg made a purposeful stop to pick up a very important item: a brand-new Sefer Torah.
Avraham Chaim (AC) and Chana (nee Porter) Bronstein (Crown Heights)
After an intense two days, 13 Shluchim couples are heading back to their communities and families, invigorated, energized, rested and armed with new insight and inspiration. These 13 couples were participants in Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe’s 6th Regional Parent Respite Retreat in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Members of the Crown Heights community are invited to the annual Purim sale, the proceeds of which will benefit Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah.
Moishe Kramer (Montreal, Canada) and Shaina Brocha Epstein (Columbia, SC)
L’Chaim will be tonight, Monday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm.
The cars rolled in and excited chatter filled the air, hugs were exchanged and the 2nd Mayanot Alumni retreat Shabbaton was underway. Over 200 adults and almost 100 children took over the Berkeley Hotel on the New Jersey Shore for a Shabbos of inspiration, learning and farbrengens.
