CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last week, on 29th of Cheshvan OK Kosher Certification held its 11th annual Mashgiach Conference in Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights. Over 100 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
President Obama’s pick for a U.S. attorney slot is facing some last-minute criticism over her prosecution of several hundred illegal immigrant workers arrested in a 2008 raid of kosher meatpacking plant Agriprocessors.
IOWA CITY, Iowa [AP] — Prosecutors have dismissed all 72 immigration charges against a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager.
The move came after Sholom Rubashkin’s conviction last week in federal court on financial fraud charges.
The carnage of the Mumbai terror attacks was still fresh as film director Dan Reed scoured India’s largest city looking for clues.
Reed was bent on finding out how 10 gunmen managed to pull off one of the worst urban assaults of the 21st century – carried live on TV around the globe.
In the course of their short lives, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, Chabad emissaries in Mumbai, India, radiated love, kindness and inspiration to their surroundings.
Watch the 25th-annual International Conference Gala Banquet of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries live on CrownHeights.info. Made available by Chabad.org and Jewish.TV. This years banquet is in Crown Heights at the New York State National Guard Armory.
In a session dubbed “critical for all directors of Chabad institutions in the US or abroad” leading security experts from the United States Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, NYPD, and the ADL shared invaluable lifesaving information on concrete steps to take, to secure Moisdos and safeguard members of Chabad Shluchim’s communities.
This Shabbos, before the Yahrtzeit of the Shluchim Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivkah Holtzberg hy”d, Crown Heights Shuls will be Farbrenging with Shluchim from around the world.
Grand Prize – Netzer
Split the Pot – Shayna Borenstein
1. Jewelry – Miriam Kestenbaum
2. Dining Room – Wircberg
3. Silver Set – Yehudis Neuschloss
4. China – DLP
5. Car Lease – Rochel Merefeld
SIOUX FALLS, SD — Sholom Rubashkin awakens early in his downtown Sioux Falls motel, prays at 6:45 a.m., chats with his lawyers and heads four blocks south for the legal fight of his life.
Behind him, in a wood-paneled federal courtroom, throngs of Orthodox Jews with beards and skullcaps gather to watch his trial.
Next week’s Kinus Hashluchim will bring to Crown Heights an influx of shluchim coming to recharge and reconnect with their comrades around the world.
The Kinus also affords shluchim the opportunity to stock up on resources for their Chabad Houses.
Devorah Benjamin and Levi Shemtov are two Lubavitcher that were selected and are among the five finalists in the Jewish Federations ‘Jewish Community Heroes’ contest. Each of the finalists will receive $1,000 towards their cause.
SEOUL, South Korea [AP] — The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive.
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — or ICANN — voted to allow such scripts in so-called domain names at the conclusion of a weeklong meeting in Seoul, South Korea’s capital.
Since its inception fifteen years ago, the Friendship Circle has built a dynamic international community to support children with special needs and their families. With over seventy centers around the world, the organization has initiated a host of meaningful and educational programs, all centered around teenage volunteers visiting the homes of children with special needs and involving them in a world of friendship they are all-too-often left out of.
And now, Friendship Circle is singing a new tune.
No, that’s not a metaphor. The Friendship Circle is proud to announce its new song called, “My Friend,” that will inspire Friendship Circle members and raise awareness in the community at large.
Presented by Sameach Music and produced by Avi Newmark, this has been one of the most anticipated albums in recent memory, featuring 12 tracks sure to satisfy all musical palettes.
A variety of talented artists team up to bring you this masterful musical production. Selections include compositions from such famed composers as Yitzy Waldner and Elimelech Blumstein, and relative newcomers like Meshulum Greenberger and Oriel Avraham. Arrangers range from Good ol’ Mona and Moshe Laufer to the always incredible Leib Yaakov Rigler and Avremi G, along with some great surprises from Ian Freitor, the album’s engineer.
These words were recently spotted all over many Facebook and Twitter statuses as well as many websites. Now they are appearing on street poles in crown heights. The words are Taamu Ureu Ki Tov Haveiah … Farzucht Vet Ir Zen Az Der Aibishter Iz Gut! and then the words “It’s Coming …”
A beautiful Teshura was distributed at the Markowitz-Lokshin wedding on Sunday evening in Crown Heights.
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