Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe talking to someone between Sichos at a Farbrengen in the late 1960s.
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40 Years to Mivtzah Taharas Hamishpacha Spawns New Organization
“in the beginning G-d created man and woman in Gan Eden. How do we get back there? …only G-d knows!” is the title of an event being hosted by The Jewish Bride Institute, a brand new Crown Heights-based Jewish women’s organization, to take place this Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Friendship Circle Moms Have a Night Out
The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn treated its “super moms” to an enjoyable program and some well deserved time out: an evening with Mrs. Shifra Klein of Joy of Kosher Magazine. The program was titled “Shabbos in an Hour.”
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Samuel Klein, 91, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing today of Mr. Samuel Klein, a holocaust survivor and one of the foremost supporters of Chabad institutions in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was 91 years old.
Weapons Bound for East Jerusalem Intercepted
A large amount of knives, tasers, and fireworks were intercepted by Israeli Police shortly after arriving from China to the Ashdod Port. The packed container was supposed to be transporting “X-Mas decorations.”
Rabbi Mendy and Mushkie Kesselman, and their son Nosson, now 6 months old, packed up their belongings this summer and left the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to establish a Chabad House in Frisco, Texas.
90 New Couples to Move Out on Shlichus
When Mushkie Kesselman was growing up, the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—was a big part of her life, despite the fact that the 22-year-old was just a toddler when he passed away in the summer of 1994.
JCW Relaunches with New Website
After shuttering its website in back in February, followed by a successful crowd-funding campaign of over $150,000 in July, Jewish Community Watch has made good on its promise and launched a new and improved website dedicated to combating child abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community. Included in the new site is the organization’s controversial ‘Wall of Shame,’ bearing the names of 93 alleged child abusers, along with over 150 pages of educational material.
The scene of the attack. Inset: The victim, Chaim Ovanounou.
Cops Arrest Teen in Brutal Subway Attack
A teenager was arrested and charged with beating a cancer-stricken Chasidic Jewish man while hurling anti-Semitic insults at him in a Brooklyn subway station.
2425 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn. Inset: Lipa Lieberman.
Lubavitcher Brokers $236M Real Estate Deal
Lipa Lieberman, a Lubavitcher real estate broker, has just recently closed a deal on behalf of a buyer for a portfolio of Brooklyn and Queens properties worth $236 Million.
Monday: Siyum Sefer Torah for Reb Noach Bogatin
On Monday, the 2nd of Kislev, 5775 (November 24th), the completion of a Sefer Torah will take place in memory of Reb Noach Bogatin, OBM.
Utah Rehab Center Gets Kosher Kitchen
Shouts of “Mazel Tov” followed the ribbon cutting on a new, fully functioning kosher kitchen Wednesday at the Heritage School, a residential treatment center for teens just off University Avenue near the mouth of Provo Canyon in Utah.
Provo Herald
In Wake of Synagogue Attack, Rebbe Video Goes Viral
In the hours following the barbaric murder of four Jews and a Druz police officer in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, Mendel Gourarie and Levi Treitel were shaken, like so many others around the world. Working at JEM, they discussed the most appropriate response. “On a day like today,” they decided, “everyone’s crying. Let’s hold the strong message for a day or two.”
Op-Ed: “They Heard Such Amazing Things, But They Don’t Think It’s Shayech”
CrownHeights.info received the following op-ed form a Shidduch-aged girl who is frustrated that parents of eligible boys keep turning her down for reasons that have nothing to do with her – nor with what should matter to the prospective Bochur.
Mourners at the funeral of Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Levine at Har Menuchot in Jerusalem. Inset: Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Levine.
Kansas City Mourns a Son Slain in Shul Massacre
“Our Talmudic scholar in Israel”—that’s how Bernie and Joan Levine of Kansas City referred to their son, according to friend and neighbor Rabbi Yitzchak “Itche” Itkin, co-director of Chabad on the Plaza in Missouri.
Wedding: Hackner – Sinclair
Pictures from the wedding of Leibel Hackner (Crown Heights) and Sharon Sinclair (Sydney, Australia), which took place last Thursday night at the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
Videos: Mivtzoim Done Right
An Israeli tourist visiting Pittsburgh came across a couple of young Lubavitcher Bochurim doing Mivtzoim last Friday afternoon. Their warmth, sincerity and joy touched the man, who filmed the encounter and posted the videos to his Facebook page under the title “Ashreinu Sheyesh Lanu Am Kazeh” (How lucky we are to have a nation like this).
Rabbi Yossi Jacobson Headlines Telshe Yeshiva Dinner
Renowned Chabad lecturer and writer Rabbi Yossi Jacobson was the keynote speaker at an honorary dinner hosted by the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.
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