The first annual Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah awards dinner took place on Motzoai Shabbos, October 20th 2012, Hey Cheshvan 5773, with almost four hundred people attendance. The dinner celebrated KSCVK’s founder Devorah Benjamin’s Ruby birthday.
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CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Chasidim during Krias Hatorah. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
It was the Rebbe’s custom to meet one-on-one (‘Yechidus’) with each guest who arrived for Tishrei, before they traveled home. In late 1981, when the volume of guests made it impossible to meet with all of them, a general meeting (‘Yechidus Klolis’) was instituted in its place, which lasted for about 10 years until the Chof Zayin Adar.
The charges against Ehud Halevy, the 21 year old Jewish youth who made international headlines after a video of him being violently beaten by NYPD officers surfaced online were dropped today.
As the Levaya of Mrs. Sarah Deitch, OBM, passed by Oholei Torah this afternoon, students and teachers alike came out to give their last respects to one of their institution’s main benefactors.
We’ve just finished celebrating the Yom Tov of Sukkos, but we’re just beginning to learn Mishnayos Masseches Sukkah with ‘Visual Mishnayos’.
Active members of Chabad at USC gathered together for the groundbreaking of the new renovations to the Chabad House. The event featured a home-cooked brunch, a self-guided tour of what changes will be made to the house and speeches by leaders in the Jewish community.
This past Motzoai Shabbos, Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah held their first annual dinner benefiting the organization which helps Kallahs and Chassanim make their weddings. At the dinner a video presentation was played featuring the story of Baruch and Zahava (nee Akinade) Arky, a newly married couple who were helped by KSCVK.
Next weekend, Shabbos Parshas Vayeira (November 2nd), over 800 students and 100 Shluchim and Shluchos will be coming to Crown Heights for the largest Pegisha of its kind. Shluchim are still looking for gracious residents who can host students for the weekend, for sleeping (Friday and Motzoei Shabbos) and/or Friday night Shabbos dinner. If you have any space for either boys or girls please email ndd@chabad.edu or call 718-510-8181. Thank you!
Oak Park’s Mae Boyar Park celebrated what would have been its namesake’s 99th birthday in a manner in which the philanthropist would have appreciated: having a picnic and feeding the hungry.
With great sadness and deep emotion we announce the passing of Mrs. Sarah (nee Kunavskia) Deitsch, OBM – fondly known as the “Mameh of Oholei Torah.” She was the wife of Reb Dovid Deitsch, OBM, who passed away in 2002.
Mrs. Deitsch was a pillar of support and a true partner in all of Reb Dovid’s endeavors, and showed herself greatly devoted to the Rebbe, encouraging her husband to immediately do what the Rebbe asked of him.
After nearly two decades of hosting a guest conference alongside the Kinus Hashluchim, the newly renamed and revamped Chabad Leadership Forum will offer new and innovative ways to connect Jewish communities around the world.
In a 1958 letter released this week by Vaad Hanachos B’Lahak, the Rebbe responds to a man who wrote about a proposed Shidduch between a bochur of Sefardi origin and a girl of Ashkenazi origin, and the opposition they were facing from apprehensive family members.
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