This past Sunday, Crown Heights residents gathered for a breakfast thanking and saluting the New York Methodist hospital for its support of the Jewish Community. The event was arranged by ‘Ahavas Chesed’ under the directorship of R. Avrohom Leider, and was attended by doctors and directors of the hospital.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photo By: Webby and Eli Blachman)
Chicago, IL — Rabbi Yoseph Chazan speaking at the Cheder Dinner February 2007. Spiced with good humor!
Ottawa, Canada — Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn, the first Orthodox Rabbi to serve in the Canadian Forces (CF) since the end of the Second World War, was sworn in today at the National Defence Medical Centre Auditorium in Ottawa.
Video in Extended Article!
Rochester, NY — The Model Matzah Bakery opens on Wednesday for the 25th consecutive year at the Jewish Community Center.
The program, sponsored by the Chabad Lubavitch organization, has had thousands of visitors over the years and has received the Elmer Louis Award from the Jewish Community Federation. The bakery offers people a look at why matzah has become the food associated most with Passover, which begins April 2.
Pictures in the Extended Article!
Bozeman, Montana — A Jewish rabbi is moving here to serve Orthodox Jewish families in Montana.
Chaim Bruk, 25, and his wife, Chavie, 22, are members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a branch of Hasidism founded in Russia in the 1700s. Its followers are Orthodox Jews.
The Bruks, with seed money from Jewish philanthropy group the Rohr Family Foundation in Florida, intend to set up a base in Bozeman.
“We’re really a statewide organization based out of Bozeman,” Bruk said Monday in a phone interview from his native Brooklyn, N.Y. “Our primary focus will be adult education.”
Tzfas, Israel — What a way to end the zman!
It all started Purim at the Seuda when Hatamim Sruly Friedrich made a Siyum on Meseches Megillah. What a treat it was for him when his father flew in special from England to schep nachas from his son.
On Sunday at around 9:00pm a Bochur (19) attempted to cross Eastern Parkway near the intersection of Albany Ave and was struck by a passing vehicle, which did not stop. The Bochur tried to make his way to a bench but lost consciousness. Hatzalah was called and responded immediately and transported to Kings County Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.
Another driver who witnessed the Hit & Run followed the car and got his license plate number, and gave it to police. They are investigating.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
The annual Melava Malka of Congregation Ahavas Moische, known to most as The Maple Street Shul, took place this past Motzei Shabbos Parshas Ki Tisa in the Reb Berel Junick Simcha Hall at the 612 Maple Street. It was well attended and had a very interesting program.
Eli Blachman the president of The Shul for over 35 years chaired the evening. He opened the evening with welcoming everyone present and told a story how everything that a person does is important and accounted for even though you don’t see results immediately. But the end always bears fruit.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos By: Yanky Junick)
On March 1, 1994, Rashid Baz a Lebanese national opened fire on a van carrying more than a dozen Hasidic students as it began to cross the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, one of those passengers was Ari. He sustained a mortal injury to his head which resulted in his very untimely death five days later, on Chof Gimmel Adar, at the age of 16.
A chronicle of the events that had taken place can be read in the Extended Article. (Taken from the ‘Ari Halberstam Memorial Website’).
Brooklyn, NY –- An attempted mugging took place earlier tonight in Crown Heights, a Yungerman in his mid 20’s was walking at around 9:10pm on Lincoln Place between Kingston and Albany when he was approached by two black males who demanded his money, he didn’t have any and the two assaulted him, one punched him in the head, knocking him to the ground while the other kicked him in the head.
The Yungerman then made his way to 770 seeking help, and Hatzalah and police were called. A police report has been filed with the 77th precinct and he was then transported to Kings County Hospital where he was treated for a swollen eye along with cut and bruises to his face. He was discharged at around 12:30am.
Miami, FL — Once the bane of Jewish continuity, today, with the proliferation of Chabad campus student centers, Jewish students going off to colleges and universities stand a good chance of actually growing in their religious identity and commitment.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
This letter was sent out by the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, we are republishing it as it affects every single motor vehicle operator in New York State.
Dear Friend:
Each year hundreds of people within our community are arrested while driving with a suspended driver license. The Department of Motor Vehicles can suspend your driving privileges for a variety of reasons. The most common reason a license is suspended is if you don’t answer a traffic summons, or if you fail to pay the full fine or surcharge listed on the summons. If your license is suspended, it will remain in effect until you correct the condition that led to the suspension. All too often – hard working individuals end up in jail simply because they have neglected to answer traffic summonses.
Camp Gan Yisroel Montreal is pleased to announce their wonderful head staff for the upcoming summer season, summer 2007.
Head Counselors: Levi Levertov, Levi Wolvovsky and Shalom Ber Kesselman
Learning Directors: Shmuelly Gurary and Mendy Rabin
Section C Directors: Avremel Matusof and Avremy Zaltzman
Masmidim Directors: Shimon Tzillerman and Levi Itkin
Salem, OR — A Midwestern couple became the latest rabbinic family to move to Oregon to open a Chabad Center.
Chabad of Oregon now has centers in five cities: Portland, Ashland, Eugene, Hillsboro and now Salem. All of the centers are non-judgmental and devoted to reaching out to all Jews regardless of their level of observance, said Chabad of Oregon Director Rabbi Moshe Wilhelm.
Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Perlstein and his wife Fruma moved to Salem at the end of February with their two children 17-month-old Tzvi and 2-month-old Chaya Mushka. The couple had been serving as program directors of the Chabad Center in Bayside, Wisc. The rabbi is originally from Chicago and his wife grew up in St. Paul, Minn.
Vancouver Island, Canada — Nearly a century old, the annex of Quadra school is now home to a far older heritage of learning.
Reflecting the festive theme of Purim, the Friendship Circle at the Jewish Children’s Museum hosted a grand carnival on Monday, Shushan Purim for over 150 children and their families. What was introduced as an event quickly ballooned into a no-holds-barred Purim bash!
Many more pictures in the Extended Article!
When I Wanted You Did Not – By Simon Jacobson
Today I attended a tragic funeral. All funerals are tragic, but some appear worse than others. Especially when a beautiful man, 61 years old, is killed by a drunken driver, leaving a grieving wife, ten children and countless relatives and friends traumatized.
Every tragic death reminds us (or should remind us) of all other senseless losses – and unbearable pain – beknownst or unbeknownst to us. How many broken hearts are crying around the world at this very moment? How do we respond to the millions of tears shed and the piercing screams echoing through the corridors of history?
The timeless question – why? why do terrible things happen to good people? – resurfaces its naked head in these timely moments of agony.
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