This video was made in memory of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg HYD and played at the Oholei Torah’s 54th annual dinner.
POSTVILLE, IA — Postville’s largest rental property company, owned by the same family as bankrupt Agriprocessors, has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Nevel Properties Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, claiming assets of less than $50,000 and liabilities of more than $1 million.
KIEV, Ukraine [JTA] — Jewish leaders called on Ukrainian authorities to press charges against a politician for inciting ethnic hatred.
In letters addressed to national and local authorities, leaders of Jewish organizations in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson accused Sergey Kirichenko, a member of the Union of Left Powers and member of Kherson City Council, of systematic anti-Semitic propaganda.
NEW YORK, NY — It is nearly 70 years since the start of the systematic, state-sponsored murder of over six million European Jews. Today, with anti-Semitism on a global rise and Holocaust deniers stridently espousing their hate, survivors are facing their own enemy: loneliness and depression.
“Several years ago we realized that survivors, particularly those living in Manhattan, were isolated and often without friends or family,” explains Sheva Tauby, co-director of Ivolunteer. Tauby and her husband Tzvi, serve as Chabad representatives to Manhattan and are the founders of this visitation program for homebound Holocaust survivors. The couple organizes volunteers–50 are currently involved–to visit survivors each week for companionship and aid.
Even by Western standards, Moscow’s Jewish infrastructure is impressive. In the Marina Roscha part of the city, a complex of buildings houses the community’s comprehensive social and educational institutions catering to Moscow’s Jewish population.
The erosion of Jewish life during communism makes Jewish population numbers hard to evaluate, but by the country’s Chief Rabbi’s estimates, there are approximately half a million Jews in this city of 10 million.
OSWIECIM, Poland — Car part supplier Schaeffler, one of the pillars of the German industry, used hair shaven from prisoners at the Auschwitz Nazi extermination camp to make textiles during World War II, historians working at the Auschwitz museum in Poland said Monday.
The researchers said they found rolls of fabric at one of the company’s former factories in southern Poland made of the hair of over 40,000 inmates.
Many more pictures in the Extended Article! (By Israel Bardugo – Shlager.net)
Gan Yisroel Detroit would like to announce our Girls Head Counselors for the upcoming summer.
Head counselors:
Mushky Lifshitz – Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussie Shemtov – Crown Heights
Chaya Deren – Pittsburgh, PA
BROOKLYN, NY — Major repairs to the crumbling Brooklyn Bridge, which are scheduled to begin this summer and close parts of the span for three years, will now cost up to $200 million more than originally anticipated.
Rehabbing the degrading bridge will cost up to $500 million, according to the Department of Transportation — a hike from the $300 million that the agency said it would need to fix approaches, ramps and anchorages, repaint the bridge and replace barriers and railings, the New York Post reported on Sunday.
Sunday afternoon on Albany Ave between Eastern Pkwy and Union St, a Jewish man was stopped by police as he was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. The Israeli man didn’t know it was illegal to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk, as he had recently moved here. However, after arguing with the officer and the officer calling for backup to restrain him, he was issued a summons for biking on the sidewalk.
Lately the police have been giving out all types of nonsense summonses. We would like warn all residents thirteen and older DO NOT ride your bicycles on the sidewalks, you can be summonsed and your bicycle can be seized and impounded.
Rabbi and Mrs. Chaim and Kaila Danzinger have just moved on Shlichus to Rostov, Russia. The couple will be running day to day Chabad operations serving the very vibrant Jewish community numbering over 10,000 Jewish residents. The new Shluchim were appointed by Russia’s Chief Rabbi and head Shliach Rabbi Berel Lazar.
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
More than 500 people packed a Long Island banquet hall to honor a Chabad-Lubavitch center and its emissary couple who had worked tirelessly for almost 15 years to strengthen Jewish life in Nassau County, N.Y. But the couple, Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolowik, was noticeably missing.
The Wolowiks, directors of Chabad of the Five Towns, were observing the traditional mourning period – known as shiva – for their nine-year-old son Levi, who had tragically passed away just two nights before.
Presenting the (real) Miami (LEC) Boys Choir… lead by choir master and teacher Rabbi Yaakov Garfinkel. Starring the talented singers from the 4th -6th grade. Enjoy!
GOLETA, CA — In the aftermath of a fire that ravaged the UCSB Chabad House three weeks ago, the Orthodox Jewish religious center has remained at the service of the local community.
According to the Santa Barbara Fire Dept., the fire began in a bedroom at the home – located at 779 Camino Pescadero – on Feb. 8. The flames then proceeded to scorch entire portions of the first and second floors, ultimately rendering the Chabad House unfit to provide services to the community.
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine [FJC] — The two largest hospitals in the east Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk – the Regional Clinical Hospital named for Metchnikov and the Third Children’s Municipal Hospital – have received much-welcomed assistance from the U.S.-based organization “Action in Support of Post-Soviet Jewry” (otherwise known as ‘Action for Post-Soviet Jewry’).
BRIGHTON — The beautiful Queen Esther made an appearance Sunday at the Jewish Community Center.
Actually, she made several.
Lots of little girls dressed up as the historic queen during Purim Palooza, a celebration of the upcoming Jewish holiday which commemorates how Esther convinced the king of ancient Persia to spare her people.
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