MOSCOW [FJC] — The Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a ceremony in memory of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Upon opening the ceremony, the head of FJC Russia’s public relations department, Boruch Gorin, noted that this year is an important one for the Holocaust.
TUNIS [AFP] — Arsonists set fire to a synagogue in the southern Gabes region of Tunisia, a leader of the local Jewish community said Tuesday.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Shabsai ben Miriam Feiga
Chana Esther bas Tova
Crown Heights’s oldest pizza joint, Kingston Pizza, which recently changed hands, was shut down this afternoon by the New York City Health Department, after inspectors deemed it unfit to serve food in a routine inspection. Customers were ordered to leave the store, and a notice was posted on the door.
As of Friday, Rabbi Yaacov Schwei moved back into the offices of the Crown Heights Bais Din at 390 Kingston Avenue after years of divide. “One Crown Heights, one Badatz” is the new reality since last Friday, Erev Shabbos Parshas Mishpotim, perhaps signaling a new era in the Brooklyn neighborhood’s Jewish leadership.
We are pleased to present our thirty – fifth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A short while ago the Crown Heights Apple Bank branch was robbed at gunpoint, and the suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
In honor of the kinnus hashluchos, Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Crown Heights had a contest to see how many languages the kids could say hello in.
CrownHeights.info received an email from a concerned member of the community with a letter addressed to the community. Please shovel the snow from the sidewalk in front of your house or building.
NEW YORK [WABC] — Precipitation early Tuesday morning has been fairly light across the mid-Atlantic states and in the Northeast. A shortwave, or ripple of upper-level energy, will be pressing eastward across the Great Lakes and into upstate New York and western New England today. This will tend to enhance snowfall rates after 5 a.m. in areas such as in the Poconos and the Catskills, as well as in northwestern New Jersey, the Hudson Valley and southern New England.
The National Weather Service and the city are urging property owners and builders to clear rooftops, awnings and overhangs of snow ASAP, to avoid potential collapses when an ice storm is expected to hit New York Tuesday.
Yeshivat Tzeirei HaShluchim – Tzfat bochurim continued to impress with their baal peh Gemara knowledge, this time following a visit and test with Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu.
When private investor Brad Berger first stepped into Yale University’s Chabad House for a Friday night dinner during a trip back east two years ago, he was taken aback. He had heard about the throngs of Jewish students who sought out a “home away from home” at the center run by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shua and Sara Rosenstein, but this was the first time he had actually experienced such a thing at his alma mater.
On any given Shabbos at Chabad of Markham, Ontario, seven year-old Zalmy Plotkin is walking around giving out high fives. This is his way of helping his parents accomplish their Shlichus. You see, Zalmy has Down syndrome, yet he is an integral partner in his parents’ work.
A short clip introducing Kol Menachems fascinating new Megillat Esther. To order your copy visit: www.kolmenachem.com
Chabad of Mequon’s Center for Jewish Life hosted its annual winter Shabbaton, featuring scholar in residence, Rabbi Manis Friedman, and special guest Chazan and performer, Sholom Jacobs.
Jewish infrastructure in Brazil continues to expand, as Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Leib and Sara Rojtenberg, and their daughter Chana, settle in to their new home in the capital city of Brasilia.
