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NYT: Brooklyn’s Champs-Élysées

NY Times
Neighborhood sights: clockwise from top left, the main entrance to the Brooklyn Library’s Central Building; a stroll down the parkway; an old Police Department precinct building; the Brooklyn Museum.
Neighborhood sights: clockwise from top left, the main entrance to the Brooklyn Library’s Central Building; a stroll down the parkway; an old Police Department precinct building; the Brooklyn Museum.

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.

Room to Grow in Thornhill, Ontario

by Karen Schwartz - Chabad.org
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, left, with celebrants at Chabad @ Flamingo’s current facilities. The new banquet hall will double the capacity and create an elegant environment for Jewish lifecycle events.
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, left, with celebrants at Chabad @ Flamingo’s current facilities. The new banquet hall will double the capacity and create an elegant environment for Jewish lifecycle events.

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.

Living, Breathing Faith

Philly.com
Rabbi Mendel Mangel puts the challah for Shabbat dinner on the table in his Cherry Hill home.
Rabbi Mendel Mangel puts the challah for Shabbat dinner on the table in his Cherry Hill home.

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.

6 Sholom Zochors This Week!

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)

Here’s My Story: Taking up the Rebbe’s Time

by Rabbi Solomon Trau
Trau-Solomon

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.