Multi-Cultural Dinner Party Celebrates the Jewish Children’s Museum’s Third Anniversary

by Mimi Notik

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over 500 guests comprised of community leaders, supporters and friends gathered last night at the Jewish Children’s Museum to celebrate its third anniversary with an international food walk-through and awards ceremony.

“Tonight’s theme reflects our mission of uniting various cultures. Through foods spanning the globe, we celebrate each other’s diversity in a fun and engaging way,” said Mendy Spalter, the Museum’s Director of Development.

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Rabbi’s Attackers Identified

JTA.org

DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities reportedly identified the four attackers of a Dnepropetrovsk rabbi. (As reported here).

A special unit of the Secret Service and Ministry of Interior Affairs named the assailants who severely beat Rabbi Dov-Ber Baitman, a teacher at the Jewish educational center Shiurey Torah and the anchor of the local Jewish television show “Video-HiTaS,” on Jan. 24.

During the attack after evening classes at the educational center, the suspects also shouted anti-Semitic slurs at Baitman, a Lubavitch-Chabad emissary.

UNC Student Remembered as Force for Campus Unity

Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org

At the urging of Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Bluming, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pledged to do good deeds in memory of slain student Eve Carson. They tacked their resolutions on a wall. (Photo: NC Hillel)

CHAPEL HILL, NC — Grief-stricken students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill united last week in pledging good deeds to honor the life of slain student body president Eve Carson.

Passing the Puck for Purim

PORT WASHINGTON, NY [CHI] — Purim Celebrations will take on a new dimension this year as a unique Purim event will be held at the Nassau Coliseum on Tuesday, March 18. As a sequel to the exciting pre-Chanukah Celebration with the NY Islanders, the team has once again invited Chabad to bring the joy of the holiday to their fans.

A New Building for Chabad in Tokyo

Lubavitch.com

TOKYO, Japan — Chabad-Lubavitch of Japan announced a happy end to its long search for a new building. “After years of looking, we found a beautiful 400 square meter building that will serve as the Chabad Jewish Center Japan,” said Rabbi Mendi Sudakevitch, Chabad representative with his wife, Chana.

Early Morning Accident on Empire and Troy

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — An early morning collision between a Car Service and a delivery vehicle sent both drivers to the hospital. The incident took place a few feet from the intersection of Empire Boulevard and Troy Avenue at around 4:30am.

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Interviews at the JCM’s Dinner

Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Israel has to be very concerned about its security, CBS2’s Lou Young said his Hebrew is as good as his Arabic and the JCM’s Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson needs 5 million dollars!

Full coverage of the dinner will follow shortly!

NY Times Feature: The City Visible – In the Land of Black Coats

Gianni Cipriano – The New York Times

If you had walked into Congregation Khal Chasidim on 49th Street and 15th Avenue on a recent Sunday evening, you would have seen a Jewish bride receiving her women attendants before her wedding. An hour later, thousands of people milled outside the synagogue, near the platform on which the wedding was taking place. Photo: Gianni Cipriano

BROOKLYN, NY — Take the D train to 55th Street in central Brooklyn, and you feel as if you have set foot in a different world.

The station sits at the junction of New Utrecht Avenue, 13th Avenue and 55th Street in the heart of Borough Park, home to a quarter-million Orthodox Jews, one of the largest concentrations of Jews outside Israel. To travel to Borough Park is to journey through both space and time.

Israeli Second Grader Celebrates Birthday With Food Drive

Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org

Rabbi Yehuda Butman, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Ramat Hasharon, Israel, prepares to deliver food to the city’s Holocaust survivors.

PAMAT HASHARON, Israel — Gali Yacoby didn’t have the typical birthday party this year. Instead of presents, her second-grade classmates brought cans of tuna, sardines, oatmeal, tea, coffee, soup mixes and jelly. And the items weren’t even for the birthday girl.