Jerusalem, the “city united together” according to King David’s Psalms, is truly replete with daily and hourly acts and displays of kindness, brotherhood, and unity. Certainly very high up on this list was the Friendship Circle of Central Jerusalem’s annual “Day of Enrichment and Empowerment” for its 89 dedicated volunteers this past Sunday.
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On the evening of Chof Beis Shvat, over 120 Lubavitch women gathered at Beth Rivkah in Montreal to remember Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. Everyone was seated in designated seating in order to facilitate getting to know new people.
An overflow crowd of approximately 200 people gathered on Feb. 1 to honor the memory of Shaina Charitonow, who passed away two years ago at the age of 55. The memorial event for the second yahrtzeit took place at the Bais Haknesset Hagadol-Lubavitch synagogue in Buffalo, N.Y., where Mrs. Charitonow served as rebbetzin, and where her husband, Rabbi Shmaryahu Charitonow, is rabbi and director.
The newly appointed Chief of Staff of the IDF, Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, paid a visit to the Western Wall yesterday to offer prayers of thanksgiving for the miracles and successes in the recent Cast Lead operation in Gaza. He replaces Lt.-Gen. (res.) Benny Gantz.
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, the Rebbe’s Mazkir and chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, was honored as Sandek this past Thursday, 23 Shvat, at the Bris of Yakov (“Kovy”) Burston, the newborn son of Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, Shluchim to Orange County, New York.
In this latest episode of the new interview series Between Two Jews, produced by theCoolJew.com, comedian Moshe Karvitsky interviews one of the Twins from France (Part 2).
Over 3,000 Chabad Shluchos and their guests gathered last night in the Hiltion Hotel in Manhattan for a Gala Banquet marking the culmination of the 5-day International Conference of Shluchos.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, February 17, to facilitate snow removal. Alternate Side Parking will also be suspended on Wednesday, February 18, for a Christian holiday, and Thursday, February 19, for Asian Lunar New Year. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
Writing for the Jewish Press, columnist Mordechai Bulua, a member of Monsey’s Orthodox Jewish Community, describes his experience encouraging non-observant Jews to put on Tefilin, after being challenged to do so by a Lubavitcher friend this past summer as part of the ALS ‘Tefillin challenge.’
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 56, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Healing from Molestation and Dealing with Violators (Part II).
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, February 16, for Presidents Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
On Motzei Shabbos, as the fourth day of the International Kinus Hashluchos came to a close, the thousands of emissaries attending the convention were treated to a lavish Melave Malka.
This humorous production by the five Rodal sisters – all Shluchos in different parts of the world – highlights the stark difference between young women who just arrived on Shluchus and their more experienced and seasoned counterparts, in the way they approach various aspects of their day-to-day Shlichus.
A public university set against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, the University of Colorado Boulder holds the number one spot nationally for its atomic/molecular/optical physics program. Twenty two hundred of its 30000 students are Jewish, but CU’s distance from major Jewish centers means that Jewish life is less accessible to them.
There is a school of thought that in order to bring close “alienated” Jews we must go to them with an abridged and reformed version of Torah. But others have tried this approach before them.
More than 1,000 people turned out Thursday night to hear former President Bill Clinton at a fundraiser for the Philip Berley Preschool of the Arts, a school run by the Chabad Center for Jewish Discovery, with five locations in Lower Manhattan that combines a solid foundation in both Judaism and the arts.
Frigid temperatures and bone-chilling wind chills gripped the New York area on Friday, and meteorologists say it’s only going to worsen over the weekend, with some snow on Saturday and the coldest temperatures in 20 years before the weekend is over.
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