She only lived until the age of eight. But the impression Allison Rosenfield left on friends, family, and the others whose lives she touched is now memorialized with a day camp named in her honor that is run by the Friendship Circle for special-needs children.
A natural disaster creates the perfect climate for a young chasidic couple to meet.
In the chasidic world, matchmakers bring young men and women together.
In the case of Rabbi Mendy and Rachel Traxler, the shadchan was Katrina.
Mendy, 22, part of the Chabad-Lubavitch rescue-and-relief effort in Baton Rouge following the hurricane a year ago, traveled to Houston to join his parents, Chabad emissaries there, for the High Holy Days season. Rachel Kaufmann, also 22, was in Houston with her family, also Chabad shluchim, who left their home in New Orleans for temporary accommodations in Houston.
Last night at around 12:30 there was a collision between two cars, a car service and a Hyundai, what appears to have happened was on car was traveling down Empire and the other up Troy and collided at the center of the intersection. There were no serious injuries reported and passengers from the car service were transported to a local hospital. There were no Yidden involved.
Last week there was another incident where a Jewish child was struck by a car there, B”H the injuries weren’t serious. Parents and drivers please pay more attention, in the past week we nearly had a tragedy L”A with the child that got trapped in a gate and this intersection had the most accidents throughout Crown Heights.
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Scheduled to be released on Chai Elul is Avraham Fried’s new CD entitled Bein Kach Ubein Kach. The CD will include 13 tracks plus a music video.
Atlantic City, NJ — The sky was clear and the sun shone bright as Chabad At The Shore’s Kosher Cruise set sail for a scenic excursion of the back bays of Atlantic City. One-hundred-fifty people showed up and joined in making history as the first ever Kosher Cruise in South Jersey set sail.
With a huge banner declaring “Kosher Cruise” and with Jewish music blaring from its loudspeakers, the Kosher Cruise announced its presence to all. Hundreds of spectators, on the beaches along the shore and on their boats on the bay waved to the Cruise as they passed, marveling at the novel idea.
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“HaChayal – Ein Mishpachah” is the camp slogan. That is because HaChayal is nothing more then a family. The camp consisted of 30 bochurim with 7 staff members; Director – Yosef Plotkin, HC – Levi Raskin, Counselors – Yossi Bryski, Moishe Chanowitz, Levi Cole – Learning Teachers – Zalmy Lowenthal, Schneur Wilhelm.
Being the size it was gave the opportunity for every camper to receive the attention necessary. This is just one of the many advantages of HaChayal.
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Camp Gan Yisroel Detroit gathered two weeks ago for a beautiful Siyum Horambam. Based on the Rebbe’s Horaa to make Siyumim. This follows a big Mivtza Rambam, headed by the head staff and some learning teachers, in which every camper got their own set of Sefer Hamitzvos, and while they are in camp the counselors learn with them the Mitzvos every night. The kids fill out a questionnaire the next day on the day’s Hamitzvos, and enter a raffle on a set of Rambam, or a new bicycle.
Four candidates in a contentious Brooklyn congressional race addressed their chief political weaknesses in a televised debate last night. One hopeful admitted not graduating from college, while another answered charges that he was an opportunist taking advantage of a divided field in a predominantly black district.
The tense face-off largely pitted David Yassky, the lone white candidate running in Brooklyn’s 11th district, against rivals Yvette Clarke, Chris Owens, and Carl Andrews. On display were the racial tensions that have drawn attention to the campaign from across the city
Saying he’s “as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami,” Jackie Mason filed a lawsuit against Jews for J for using his name and likeness in a pamphlet.
The $2 million lawsuit seeks the immediate destruction of the pamphlet, which members of the missionary group have been handing out at various points around New York City.
“While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami,” the 75-year-old comedian said in documents filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.
A Siyum on Mesechtes Avoda Zarah took place Tuesday Chof Ches Menachem Av at Beis Shmuel, 825 Eastern Parkway.
The shiur began about 3 years ago, thanks to the efforts of R. Ari Chitrik, after various yungerleit made a Hachlata at a Farbrengen, for Kviyas Itim L’Torah.
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Infinity Productions announces the release, G-d willing, of its new CD album introducing the baal menagen – vocalist of Chasidic melodies – Mayer Simcha Rivkin, in his debut performance on a CD. Singing the Rebbe’s 14 niggunim, “EXPRESSIONS OF THE SOUL,” he performs these beautiful, reflective, mystical melodies in a sweet, heartfelt voice, sure to inspire listeners to sing along, rejoice and shed a tear of joy.
Wednesday night, At 12:13, a member of Anash on his way home was held up by three Black males with a gun at the intersection of New York Ave and President St. The victim, who was carrying a large amount of cash on him began yelling and cursing at them, which apparently scared them and they began fleeing down President St towards Brooklyn Ave
911 was called and police officers began responding form all different direction, one responding unit spotted the trio fleeing on President between Kingston and Albany, and managed to stop them all. More officers responded to the area and began searching them for the alleged gun they used for the stickup when a Bochur spotted the gun under a parked car. Police arrested the three and brought them down to the precinct along with the victim to file a complaint.
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After reporting and covering so many such stories it was only a matter of time that such trouble would find me.
Last night, Tuesday, at around 12:30am, I was on my way back from a wedding, walking with a friend on New York Ave and Eastern Pkwy when we were approached by a black youth who asked for the time, after which he asked for a dollar, we brushed him off and continued walking, thats when he began demanding money from us, at which point five of his cohorts began crossing the street towards us.
It was at this time that I pulled my Shomrim radio off my belt and put a distress call over the air and Shomrim members began responding from all over, at the same time my friend and I began chasing the would be muggers who began fleeing upon seeing the radio. The perps all fled up New York Ave, part of the group turned down Lincoln Pl while the rest turned on St Johns Pl. At the same time my friend got on the phone with 911 and was giving updates as to where we were during the chase.
What a surprise it was walking down Golders Green road in North West London on a busy Friday afternoon and seeing parked outside Carmeli bakery, a motor home with a sign “Chabad Lubavitch Mitzvah Tank. Do a mitzvah Today!”. Approaching nearer, there was Harav Levi Paris putting on tefillin with a karkafta.
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B”H after about six and a half weeks the bochurim of Yeshivas Kayitz Russia are back home. During the summer the bochurim visited most of the Mekomos Hakidoshim throughout Russia and Ukraine including Haditch, Niezen, Anepolie, Mezibuz, Barditchuv, and ovcourse Lubavitch. Beginning in Z’itomer Ukraine and ending in Petersburg Russia. Seeing the way the Chassidim lived back than inspired the bochurim greatly.
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The funeral of Sgt. Alex Assaf, 20, killed by an Israeli mine in Lebanon Tuesday night, has not yet been set. His short life took place in Chernobyl, Kfar Chabad, Bedouin tents, Carmiel and Lebanon.
Alex was one of more than 2,500 Russian children brought to Israel over the course of several years by the Chabad movement. Following the explosion of a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986, the Chabad movement embarked on a major campaign to remove Jewish children from the disaster area, and brought them to Israeli in a series of flights.
Alex arrived on the seventh Chabad flight, and was brought to the Israeli town of Kfar Chabad in 1991 at the age of 6. He lived there for five years, until his mother arrived from Russia and took him into her custody. She was unable to care for him properly, however, and lived with him in Bedouin tents and the like. Finally, Alex was placed in the care of a loving family from Carmiel. His adoptive mother, Tziporah, said that he was a very lovable boy, and was a loving younger brother to her four other children.
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