“Jewish Jordan” Retires from Professional Basketball

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Tamir Goodman, the “Jewish Jordan”, announced today his retirement from professional basketball during a press conference and fundraiser at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Goodman, 27, who played his last season with the Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team (Israeli Premier League), has been named the Director of the Haifa Hoops for Kids charity program, an initiative spearheaded by Maccabi Haifa and United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ, which benefits underprivileged and special needs children in Israel.

Handwritten Note From Rebbetzin Chana

CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is pleased to present a handwritten note composed by the saintly mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson. In her note, she expresses good-year wishes to Rabbi Greenglass, a prominent Chabad Rabbi in Montreal, Special thanks to Rabbi Mendel Feller.to Learn More About the Rebbe Vist: www.portraitofaleader.org

Struck Boy is Family’s Second Tragedy

A heartbroken Brooklyn family on Sunday buried a 9-year-old son struck and killed by a car – just five years after the boy’s younger brother tragically drowned.

The sobbing father of Joshua Ganzfried escorted the small wooden coffin from Congregation Kehilas Yakov Pupa as about 500 Hasidic Jews packed the Williamsburg street.

Shlomo Ganzfried, 38, lost a 2-year-old son, Amron, on June 26, 2004.

The tot drowned in a pond in Westchester County after wandering away from a service his parents were attending at a synagogue.

My Yiddishe Tailor

Now featuring in the New York Times’s Mens Fashion for fall of 2009…. Kapotes! Mendy Sacho, a Lubavitcher yungerman living in Toronto, was ‘plugged’.

Jewish Community Copes With Massive Southern California Fire

Even as firefighters and state officials expressed guarded optimism Tuesday about their chances to contain a week-old wildfire that has consumed more than 120,000 acres north of Los Angeles, local residents remained scared. Evacuees pondered the fate of their homes, while others wondered if their turn to flee would be next.

The 2008 Chabad Telethon Now Available on CD/DVD & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Since 1980, the Chabad L’Chaim-To-Life! Telethon has supported a network of 200 community centers and nonsectarian social services that educate, comfort and provide hope to those in need.

This CD and DVD is a record of last years 2008 Telethon. Featured on this show are Avraham Fried, Mordechai Ben David, Keith David, M Generation, Ethan Bodnick, Ray Chew Boys Choir of Harlem with Ki Vo Moed, 8th Day, Mike Burstyn, Leo Chelyapov and the Lior Kaminetsky Ensemble. Also included are the comedy routines from Elon Gold and other many entertaining treats.

Music Sampler! – New Yaakov Shwekey Album!

For the first time in Jewish Music you can download the CD before it’s even in stores!
Go to MostlyMusic.com and download the CD, and the booklet for just $11.99!!

Friends Build Memorial at Accident Site

HORRY COUNTY, MD [CHI] — The Sun is setting and its getting dark, but two friends of Toby Eagle, 20, of Baltimore, MD are setting up a memorial at the accident site of where Toby eagle a then 20 year old counselor at the Chabad Camp Gan Israel day camp in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, when she was Tragically killed and another was put in critical condition after a one-car wreck in western Horry County while heading east on U.S. 501 near the intersection of Brown Swamp Road on August 3rd 2007 at 6 AM.

Friendship Circle Campaign Enlists Support of Detroit Radio Host

Preparations for an annual walkathon benefiting the founding chapter of the Friendship Circle – a Chabad-Lubavitch network of programs that pair teenage volunteers with children with special needs – is generating a buzz among Detroit-area residents thanks to the endorsement of a local radio personality and a cadre of dedicated volunteers.

Recession Means Fewer Babies; US Births fell 2 Percent

There aren’t just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.

Sobering Truths About Alcohol’s Subtle Grip

Over the course of my work, I end up treating many patients for alcohol abuse. But in the beginning, very few of them actually come to me worried about whether they might be alcoholics. Most of them come for help with depression, marital discord, stress at work or anxiety.

Many of these men and women never considered themselves problem drinkers. They don’t drink every day and don’t get drunk every time they drink. They may have stopped drinking for weeks or months at a time, without having any signs of withdrawal.

Picture of the Day! – Face Lift!

Recently Oholei Torah’s facade got a good cleaning and face lift. The old doorways and rickety aging awning were removed.

1997: German Embassy Apologizes for Customs Officers Behavior

A story recently published about a Chabad family being accosted by a German customs official in a German airport brought back bad memories for two Bochurim who were accosted in a very similar way in June of 1997, 12 years ago.

Shidduch Crisis or Shidduch Challenge?

Is there’ a “Shidduch Crisis” ? Not if you’ve been participating in the Brooklyn Ladies’ Shidduch Group. For us, well, we see only opportunities. With the motto “Let’s help each other.”, we’ve been meeting once or twice monthly for over one year. We meet in Flatbush, at Bais Menachem Mendel at 1000 East 17th St, and have developed a lively cameraderie. Mostly, ladies come and present someone single – sometimes their own child. Women have presented their siblings, their Shabbos guests, even themselves! Numerous professional shadchanim. have visited, as have a mashpiah presenting her mushpa, one mother who drove 4 hours from out-of-state to present her children, and visitors from California, Montreal, and Israel !

During the meetings, ladies present a profile of a single. General appearance, background information, style of religiosity and personality attributes are described. Other participants ask questions to clarify what the single is about or is seeking. Names of singles are not used.

The Levaya of Rivkah Lieberman OBM

Crown Heights residents came out earlier today, Tuesday for the Levaya of Rivkah Lieberman OBM who passed away yesterday in Florida.