Yesterday the maintenance staff of 770 in Crown Heights started cleaning the Shul for Pesach, moving all the benches and tables outside and going through every crack to make sure there is no Chometz.
Get ready for that time of year again when we get barred from the Shul and we all have to Daven outside and upstairs, hopefully we will at least have warm weather.
Fourteen tumultuous years have done little to heal the hurt of Fay Rosenbaum, whose son Yankel was stabbed to death in a 1991 race riot that came to symbolize a dark and angry period in the city’s history.
Rosenbaum’s family, including the 71-year-old matriarch, is back in the city from Australia, once again seeking justice in the Hasidic scholar’s death. This time, they want to show that Yankel Rosenbaum got shoddy treatment from city doctors after Lemrick Nelson left him dying on a Crown Heights street.
“I don’t forgive and I don’t forget,” Fay, 71, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview Wednesday, just before the Brooklyn Supreme Court judge hearing the family’s civil case against the city issued a gag order.
At 2:00 AM on Monday a Bochur decided to cause some trouble and went outside 788-770 to the corner stone with a blowtorch and burned the protective glass, the security guard asked him what he was doing and he ran.
The Police were called and arrived on scene at about 2:05am but it was too late as the bochur decided to do his exercise and run down the block, the police are dealing with the situation and because of Bochurim like the one today will be the cause of no one having access to touch the stone.
The highlight of the Sefer Hamitsvos Contest weekend of Tsivos Hashem was the competition’s grand finale on Sunday. The awesome event was hosted by the Lubavitch Educational Center at the Deauville Beach Resort . In front of a crowd of more than 1,000, the boys competed in a fast-paced “game-show style” quiz — a full-scale multimedia production, complete with computer-generated question boards, flashing lights, buzzers, sound effects and music. “The children’s grasp of the material was simply astounding,” says Rabbi Sholom Ber Baumgarten, Tzivos Hashem Director. “Within seconds, the children answered questions from memory that many scholars and even rabbis couldn’t answer without consulting a source.” In between the two rounds of the game show and after the second round, the audience was treated to live concert by chassidic super star Avrohom Fried. It was not your regular concert! The dancing and enthusiasm in the room was palpable.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Benjaminson, executive director of Tzivos Hashem said it was a most worthwhile investment for what these boys have accomplished is priceless. However, these children are really representing the more than 4,000 students from across the world who took part in the program, which was initiated as a means of fulfilling the Rebbe’s wish that every man, woman, and child learn the Rambam’s magnum opus Mishneh Torah or the more abbreviated Sefer HaMitzvos, which explain all of the 613 mitzvahs.
SNS has learned that Rabbi & Mrs. Schneur Zalman Cadaner of Crown Heights will IYH be moving on Shlichus to the Quad Cities where they will establish a new Chabad House. The Quad Cities consists of Rock Island and Moline in Illinois and Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.
The Cadaners were appointed by Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz of Illinois & Rabbi Yossi Jacobson of Iowa.
HATZLOCHA RABBA!
The Cadaners can be reached via e-mail @ chabadquadcities@gmail.com.
A group of Anash in Crown Heights who meet each Monday and Wednesday evening to learn Gemara with Horav Zalmam Labkowsky, Rosh Yeshiivah of 770, have just made a Siyum on Mesechtas Brochos.
The Siyum was held last Wednesday night @ the Aguda Shul on Crown St.
A festive Seuda followed the Siyum, during which Rabbi Labkowsky announced that the group will start learning Mesechtas Sukkah on when they next meet, on Monday night Ohr Le’Gimmel Nissan.
Keren Yaakov Moshe was established last year in memory of HaRav Yaakov Moshe HaKohen Friedman, z’l. Who in Crown Heights has not been witness to his countless acts of kindness on a daily basis at home, in shul or even on “Rabbi Friedman’s line” in the bank? His legendary kindness and compassion began when he was a young man in war-torn Europe, where, with real mesiras nefesh and heroism, he enabled thousands of Jews to emigrate to freedom. It was therefore fitting for the family to establish a gemach to perpetuate the chessed of this “sar hachesed”.
Now, in honor of the first Yahrzeit on 10 Nissan, SNS has learned that the family has established a new and innovative fund. Yad L’Shliach will make it incredibly easy for all Anash to help Shluchim in an ongoing and meaningful way.
“Imagine if thousands of Anash, young and old, would contribute monthly,” said Avremel Friedman (Fried), one of the fund’s founders (and its first contributor) “That will translate into so many gifts and be mechayeh so many Shluchim.”
The fund hopes to send the first checks to Shluchim on the Yahrzeit in two weeks, according to Yad L’Shliach’s organizer Rabbi Shlomo Friedman.
To find out more about this exciting project log on to: www.YadLshliach.org.
Upon the request of the Rabbis of Gush Katif and with the consent of all rabbis in Israel, a Special Day of Prayer all over the world has been proclaimed for today 27th of Adar II, 5765 at 4:30.
Jews all over the world will convene in their synagogues on this day to decry the terrible decree of uprooting families and homes from Gaza and northern Samaria. The central rally will take place by the Western Wall with the belief that Tefilas Horabim have the power to nullify all terrible decrees.
Rabbi Binyomin Klein is seen above undergoing a thorough inspection before being allowed into the wedding of the Zeiler-Zonnenfeld families from Nachlas Har Chabad – in Binyanei Haumah in Yerushalayim.
The Kehos Publishing Society has announced a forty percent sale in honor of the 11th of Nissan, the 103rd birthday of the Rebbe, Pesach The sale on Kehos Books will last from Beis Nissan until Lag B’Omer. For more information call (718) 778 0226
Rabbi & Mrs. Chesky Tenenbaum of Crown Heights will IY”H be moving out on Shlichus to Gaithersburg, Maryland where Rabbi Tenenbaum will serve as administrator and progam director for Chabad of Upper Montgomery County.
The Tenenbaums were appointed by Rabbi Sholom Raichik Shliach of Upper Montgomery County, MD.
HATZLOCHA RABBA!
The Tenenbaums can be reached via e-mail @ Cheskyt@yahoo.com
On Sunday 23 Adar II, April 3, 2005, dollars were once again distributed in 770.
According to reports, Gabbai Zalman Lipsker had hired a few Yungerleit to chase away the people in charge of the Dollars. At first, the two doors leading into the front hallway were locked and no one could enter it, so no one arrived to give out any dollars.
In order to prevent altercations, the Sefadi students had decided to hand out the dollars on the front lawn of 770.
However, an unforeseen development arose: The students wrote to the igros, which directed them in no uncertain terms, not to alter the place of the dollar distribution under any circumstances. With such a clear and definitive directive, the stalwart soldiers had no choice but to stand up to the powers-that-be and act.
At 2:50 PM, with the other students at lunch break, the Sefadi contingent managed to break through the door between the upstairs Shul and the front hallway. They placed a table with a blue cushion, sang yechi, and gave out dollars for a few minutes. About 10 Sefadi students participated.
Rabbi and Mrs. Chayim Eliyohu Mishulovin of Crown Heights will be moving on Shlichus to Portland, Oregon where they will establish a new Chabad House the downtown area. In addition, the Mishulovins will be making special programs and activities for the youth and the entire community. The Mishulovins were appointed by Rabbi Moshe Wilhelm of Chabad of Oregon.
A group of guests from Avshalom Institute for knowledge of the land visited Beis Agudas Chasidei Chabad – 770 in coordination with building director Rabbi Menachem Later. The institute representatives, who have been holding studies and lectures on Judaism, thanked the Chabdniks for the hositng and for the speaches they listened to in 770. The shliach to Macabim-Reut, Rabbi Meir Mark, lectured to the guests, who later departed after they were each given a copy of Sichas Hashavua and Matsos for the Holiday.
Rabbi Adin Even Yisroel (Steinzalts) was seen last night at the Rebbe’s Ohel with a case on his right arm. The Rabbi seems to have fallen a few days ago. Refuah Shleima.
