New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities

Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question-and-answer clips and other spots featuring his grandmother “Bubby,” is being wooed by the site’s competitors, including Metacafe, ManiaTV and others, with promises of guaranteed exposure, a share of advertising money, or both.

Home used for Worship draws Neighbors’ Gripes

West Boynton — Dozens of Jewish congregants observing the Sabbath and worshipping daily gather in a two-story home less than a half-mile from the mammoth Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton synagogue.

But neighbors want them to stop.

The irritated residents say they want no more daily religious services conducted in the cream-and-champagne-colored home in the 6200 block of Madras Circle in the Indian Wells subdivision.

Exclusive interview with the Commissioner of the Crown Heights Softball League

Zevi S. talks about the Red Heifers’ big win, about the question of sports and bitul torah, and his gratitude to the CH Softball sponsors.

CrownHeights.info: As commissioner of Crown Heights’ only organized sports league tell me a little bit about how you got started.
Zevi S.: I was previously part of a secular league in Bayridge.We were about twelve guys who used to play twice a week. Then we saw how many people in Crown Heights were searching for this kind of recreation and we – Danny Cole and me – decided to start our own league here.

Emotional Celebration in Romania

Bucharest, Romania — In a scene not seen in Romania since before WWII, thousands gathered to the festive grand opening of a newly restored 200 year-old Bucharest synagogue and the dedication of two new Torah scrolls, as Romanian national TV televised the event.

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New Chabad center aims to ease transition for Central Asian emigres

Vienna, Austria — As a slender violinist with flowing black hair played “Oseh Shalom” to an audience peppered with at least a dozen long-bearded rabbis, Bukharian Jews in this capital city ushered in a new era.

Their cause for celebration: Unlike many of those from Central Asia who came to Austria more than 25 years ago, immigrants to the country now have a new center to help them find their way.

U.S. Congressman Visits Jewish Community Center in Moscow

Moscow, Russia – Senior American congressman Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, visited the Moscow’s Jewish community center while paying a visit to Russia. In a meeting with Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar, the two discussed issues affecting the growth of the Russian Jewry while praising continued governmental support and growth efforts of the community. They also discussed the removal of Russia from the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment which denied normal trade relations between the US and Russia, and was put into place because of restrictions on Jewish community members right to emigrate during the soviet regime.

This Motzoai Shabbos the Soul II Soul Concert!

The annual Soul II Soul concert is set to take place this Motzoai Shabbos Parshas Trumah in the George Wingate Auditorium on Kingston Ave. The proceeds of the concert go to the funding of education and summer camps for special children with special needs.

This year the concert is featuring Mordechai Ben David as its featured performance as well as a special performance by the Temimim Boys Choir under the direction of Rabbi Yossi Goldstein. Producers of the Soul II Soul concert have informed us that ticket sales are moving at an incredible rate selling out some sections of the George Wingate Auditorium.

Yeshiva Academy gets $2 million Bequest

Worcester, MA — A gift of nearly $2 million from the estate of Max and Ida Fallman will allow the Yeshiva Academy day school to offer college scholarships for the first time, Rabbi Hershel Fogelman said yesterday.

Mr. Fallman, whose family fled the Nazis in Austria to the United States in 1939, was a member of the Yeshiva board and a trustee of the Congregation Tifereth Israel Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Rabbi Fogelman said. Mr. Fallman was a photographer by trade and died in 2001.

“He valued education very much,” the rabbi said in an interview yesterday at the school on Newton Avenue.

Chasidic Tunes Inspire Rockers

New York, NY — The last few years in mainstream music have seen an explosion of bands influenced by Eastern European melodies and songs. From Jdub Record bands Balkan Beat Box and Golem to indie bands DeVotchKa and Beirut, everything from Roma lautari to klezmer music has been fair game. Recently, though, artists have been finding inspiration from a more mystical source – the niggunim of Chabad Lubavitch.

Gutnick Targeted in Second Terror Plot

Melbourne, Australia — Prominent Chabad identity Rabbi Joseph Gutnick has been named for the second time as the target of a terrorist assassination plot.

A French court last week heard that Rabbi Gutnick’s name was listed in a notebook filled with coded messages belonging to terror suspect Willie Brigitte.

The court heard that the notebook, found in Brigitte’s home in the Sydney suburb of Lakemba, also contained the names of Jemaah Islamiah spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir and Jack Roche, who is serving a nine-year jail sentence for conspiring to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.