Accidents
Blogs
Camp News
Chabad News
Chanukah
Comics
Communal Matters
Crime
Crown Heights News
Farbrengens
Fires
General
Israel
Jewish News
Kinus Hashluchim
Letter and Spirit
Mazal Tov!
Merkos Shlichus
Mivtzoim
Monsey News
Notices
NYC News
Op-Ed
Photo Galleries
Picture of the Day
PSA
Real Estate
Rockland County News
Satire
Shlichus
Simcha Galleries
Something Jewish
Upstate News
Videos
Weekly Voice

Daily Archives: May 28, 2010


In a recent trip to Israel, as part of “My Encounter with the Rebbe” project, JEM interviewed Yisroel Katzover, a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels. Through the years, he consulted and received much advice and guidance from the Rebbe.

Mubarak: What does the Lubavitcher Rebbe want from me?

In a recent trip to Israel, as part of “My Encounter with the Rebbe” project, JEM interviewed Yisroel Katzover, a senior journalist who covered the IDF for several decades for numerous Israeli newspapers and media channels. Through the years, he consulted and received much advice and guidance from the Rebbe.

Posted to Chabad News on
Mazal Tov's View More
Baby Girl!

Moshe and Mimi Kulek from Chicago, IL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Ari Raskin (Melbourne, Australia) to Aliza Kravitz (Hollywood, FL)
Baby Boy!

Dov and Chani Misholovin from Miami, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yossi and Leah Moscowitz from Wimbeldon, England had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Yaffe (Longmeadow, MA) to Devorah Gindi (Brooklyn, NY)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Ahuva Coates from Chicago, IL had a baby boy!

1
New Engagement!

Yaakov David Gordon (Melbourne, Australia) to Rivka Pink (Solihull, England)
New Engagement!

Mendel New (Crown Heights) to Sara Silverman (Marietta, GA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Sholom Ber Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Mussie Baumgarten (Rockaway, NJ) L’Chaim: Tuesday, May 7th, 8:00pm at the JCM Lower Level
New Engagement!

Binyomin Wilhelm (Zhitomir, Ukraine) to Chaya Sosonkin (Brooklyn, NY)
Twins!

Two girls were born to Zalman and Chaya (nee Slonim) Phillips from East Flatbush!
New Engagement!

Levi Deitsch (Perm, Russia) to Tehilah Holtzberg (Pomona, NY)
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Amer (Moshave Mivtachim, EY) to Feiga Leah Norton (Los Angeles, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at The Shull 481 Albany Ave
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chana Genya Goodman had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Moshe Cunin (Reno, NV) to Doba Brikman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: L’Chaim: Sunday, April 14th, 8:00pm at the JCM
Baby Boy!

Bezalel and Devory Broh from Remsen Village had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 63 E. 91st Street between E. New York Ave and Rutland Road
New Engagement!

Reuben Greenberg (Crown Heights) to Sara Brown (Liverpool, UK) L’Chaim: Sunday, April 14th, 8:00pm at the JCM Downstairs

And Then the Lights Went Out

By Jonah T.

Heifers’ 1st basemen Dovid Stein dodging the raindrops. Illustration photo.

Weather last night showed no mercy as the Red Heifers faced The Tribe in an angst-filled match-up. The Tribe connected often and early, jumping to a wide-margin lead by the 3rd inning. As the rain created hazards at every turn on the field, runners were challenged to maintain their footing.

Posted to Crown Heights News on
8

LA QUINTA, CA [CHI] — A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California's La Quinta High. Shliach to the area, Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can't even be expelled.

California Teens Play “Beat the Jew”

LA QUINTA, CA [CHI] — A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California’s La Quinta High. Shliach to the area, Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can’t even be expelled.

Posted to Jewish News on
14

Have you seen those super cool Crown Heights Softball League baseball caps, with that Lubavitcher in the logo, and thought “where can I get one of those?” Well there are a limited number of them available for purchase on Kingston, and just in time for the summer!

PSA: Limited Amount of Softball League Caps Available

Have you seen those super cool Crown Heights Softball League baseball caps, with that Lubavitcher in the logo, and thought “where can I get one of those?” Well there are a limited number of them available for purchase on Kingston, and just in time for the summer!

Posted to PSA on
4

WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — The White House hosted a first-ever reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room yesterday, Thursday. President Barack Obama spoke about the important contributions the Jewish people have made in the United States and the need for America to support Israel.

White House Marks Jewish American Heritage Month

WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — The White House hosted a first-ever reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room yesterday, Thursday. President Barack Obama spoke about the important contributions the Jewish people have made in the United States and the need for America to support Israel.

Posted to General on
11
By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida
Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”

“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”

“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”

Antagonizing Our Evil Inclination – The “Misoninim” Syndrome

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Florida

Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”

“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”

“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”

Posted to Something Jewish on
5
By Larry Gordon for the 5 Towns Jewish Times
<%image(20100528-Moshe-Sasonkin.jpg|525|318|Moshe Sasonkin)%>

It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.

Growing With Moshe Sasonkin

By Larry Gordon for the 5 Towns Jewish Times
<%image(20100528-Moshe-Sasonkin.jpg|525|318|Moshe Sasonkin)%>

It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.

Posted to Jewish News on
13