The Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah – Melbourne) hosted a communal Kinus Torah on Sunday the tenth of Sivan (May 19, 2013). The Kinus was convened in conjunction with Shavuos, as per the Rebbe’s directive that a Kinus be held on, or immediately after, each Yom Tov.
Looking down Eastern Parkway from Grand Army Plaza’s Memorial Arch, past the Brooklyn Public Library, past the Botanic Garden and McKim, Mead and White’s Brooklyn Museum, you might be reminded of Paris and the broad avenues that radiate from the Arc de Triomphe.
Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, has big plans to keep on growing. About seven years ago, organizers drew up blueprints to expand the sanctuary and social area. The former was completed, and now they have moved on to the latter—a social hall that will double its capacity, from 200 people to 400.
Mendel and Sossia (nee Charytan) Kramer (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights children were treated to a carnival and show by the French Twins on Montgomery Street in honor of Isru Chag. The outing was sponsored by local businesses.
Zalmy and Yehudis (nee Kaminetsky) Futerfas (Crown Heights)
Dovy Reisner (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chaya Gutnick (Los Angeles, CA)
Despite the number of cooks in the kitchen, preparations to create a Shabbat dinner were moving smoothly. That’s no small feat, and this was no small event – not just because the Mangels are a family with eight children, ages 3 to 19.
Yankel and Pessa Rochel (nee Katz) Lipsidge
1276 President St, [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Motti and Rivkah (nee Kulik) Torenheim
272 Kingston Avenue [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Zalmy and Yehudis (nee Kaminetsky) Futerfas
1395 Carroll St, [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Mordy and Sammy Greenstein (Crown Heights)
Mordy and Nechama Dena (nee Loshak) Dinerman (Crown Heights)
Elchonon and Pnina (nee Abush) Komar (Sydney, Australia)
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo go the Rebbe Davening Mincha during a children’s rally, in the winter of 1973.
Shalom Rice (Marin County, CA) and Bashy Klyne (Manchester, England)
Should we all abstain from physical pleasures in order to become more “Holy” before the Almighty? This week’s Parsha, Nasso, presents two somewhat peculiar laws back to back: The law of the Sotah – the wife suspected by her husband of committing adultery and the law of the Nazir – one who takes a vow of abstinence.
Health officials have reported 30 cases of the Victorian-era scourge — with 26 in Borough Park and another four in the Hasidic quarter of Williamsburg.
Yaakov Frankforter (Montreal, Canada) and Esther Kadoch (Montreal, Canada)
An explosion near the Chabad House in Katmandu, Nepal turned out to be an airplane crash. Earlier reports of a fire in a hotel were incorrect. 21 people were injured in the accident, where a small airplane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip.
Mordy and Sammy Greenstein (Crown Heights)
In the 1950s, when I was a young man, I befriended Rabbi Moses Rosen, who was the chief rabbi of Romania. Whenever he came to New York, he prayed in my shul, which was the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, and when we discovered that we both spoke French, it brought us together. We became good friends, our wives became friends, and it was a great friendship for friendship’s sake, as the saying goes.
A celebration marking students’ memorizing 118,547 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and more, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the Cheder Menachem of Los Angeles dedicated by the Menlo family.