Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah has announced the appointment of Rabbi Mendel Blau to the position of Menahel of the Yeshiva for the coming year. Rabbi Blau, a maggid shiur with many years of experience and success in chinuch, is known for his good rapport with bochurim, innovative educational ideas and vast knowledge.
Izzy sat faithfully at his wife Norma’s side, every day for several months, as she slipped in and out of a coma.
One day as Norma came to; she looked at Izzy with tear-filled eyes. "Izzy, my Izzy,” she said, “You have been with me and stood by me during my toughest times:
When I lost my job, you were there.
When my first hairdressing business failed, you stood by me.
When I got hit by that car, you were with me.
When we lost our dear Jonathan, you were there for me.
When my health started to fail, you stayed by me.”
Izzy sat faithfully at his wife Norma’s side, every day for several months, as she slipped in and out of a coma.
One day as Norma came to; she looked at Izzy with tear-filled eyes. “Izzy, my Izzy,” she said, “You have been with me and stood by me during my toughest times:
When I lost my job, you were there.
When my first hairdressing business failed, you stood by me.
When I got hit by that car, you were with me.
When we lost our dear Jonathan, you were there for me.
When my health started to fail, you stayed by me.”
The new roof above Centre Court was not the only thing to debut at Wimbledon three years ago. The Chabad tennis barbeque at Wimbledon first opened for business in 2008, and like the roof it is slowly finding its place at SW19.
What a way to finish the year at the yeshiva! Bochurim at YNS NJ celebrated the end of a very successful year with many Siyumim. Rabbi Orimland, Rosh HaYeshiva, was beaming with joy and welcomed many parents and even siblings who came in special for this momentous event.
All educators want not only to teach students a particular subject but to reach and communicate with them; to mechanchim and mechanchos reaching students is not just a professional need it is an imperative. They are charged with not only teaching Torah but forging the next link in the chain from Har Sinai.
This Shabbos afternoon at the Besht Center Rabbi Naftali Silberg will lead a talk on the surprising truth about miracles.
One of the most ancient tales from the Torah has been illuminated in the newest style of CGI animation to form a three-dimensional world where characters and cities exist in an animated platform on the computer. It’s the combination of old text with modern animation that’s turning heads.
Police are investigating allegations of abuse by a former teacher at a Jewish boys’ school in Melbourne who is currently in a U.S. prison.
This is how the NYPD fights crime, by have no record of it! It seems that being taken away by ambulance after a brutal beating and calling 911 is not enough for the cops to hear about an incident in which police officers actually responded to. CrownHeights.info has learned that more than four days after the incident took place neither the local precinct, nor the Patrol Borough of Brooklyn South have any idea that this crime took place.
A Jewish wedding celebration in Dnepropetrovsk this month bound two families whose grandfathers were once persecuted by the very government now embracing the religious revival taking place in Ukraine.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — For the second time in four months the Crown Heights branch of Apple Bank was robbed. The suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Hull Hebrew Congregation will be without a full-time rabbi for the first time in its history after having to make its minister redundant for financial reasons.
Blame the potato chip. It’s the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found. Bigger than soda, candy and ice cream.
A group of 100 New Jersey children with special needs will send off a trio of amateur cyclists Sunday by riding alongside for a very short portion of their visitors’ cross-country trek.
From the Inbox: I can write about the pain of watching friends and younger siblings becoming moms, or the segulos I tried, but I’d rather talk about some of the upsides of the miserable reality of infertility.
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