As polls opened this morning residents of the 43rd Assembly District turned out to their respective poll sites to vote in a special election to fill the seat. CrownHeights.info accompanied Mendy Raitport as he voted at the President and Brooklyn poll site.
For Pesach Sheini, Tzivos Hashem UK visited Satmar and Vishnitz chedorim with the Model Matzo Bakery, teaching the idea of “Lomoh Nigoroh” to hundreds of children, telling them that we must keep asking Hashem to send us Moshiach.
New York State Assembly candidate Shirley Patterson was hosted last night by a group of young professionals on a trendy rooftop in Crown Heights.
The tension was palpable as seventy-six boys gathered Wednesday evening to write the first exam in advance of the International Chidon to take place in New York next month. As they feverishly answered question after question, the unanimous hope within each boy’s heart was that of scoring high enough on the test in order to merit representing his peers at the Chidon.
“There are times when life on shlichus is tough but I’d never want to switch it with anything else,” declared nine-year-old Sender Ouiezerat, shliach to Shanghai, China, during his speech at the gala banquet of the Asian Regional Kinus HaShluchim. “After all, it is we who are on the front lines bringing Moshiach.”
In preparation for the 59th Annual Dinner of Oholei Torah, bronze plaques have been erected on the main entrance ways of the Anchor building of Oholei Torah’s Eastern Parkway Campus, dedicating them in everlasting memory of the mossad’s co-founders, Reb Michoel and Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, OBM. They will now be known as the ‘Sha’arei Teitelbaum,’ gateways of Torah and Avodah.
Thirty talented new youth counselors, from the 15 branches of the rapidly growing ‘EnerJew’ Jewish youth movement in the former USSR, attended a special five day professional seminar in Moscow, the capital of Russia, which was also attended by mentors and leading lecturers.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, executive vice-chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, along with his son Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, director of Merkos’ Suite 302, arrived this morning in Kathmandu, Nepal, to assist the local Chabad Center with their humanitarian efforts in the aftermath of an earthquake that devastated the impoverished nation.
A Crown Heights family recently uncovered a vintage collection of photographs taken in and around the original building of Lubavitcher Yeshiva in the U.S., located on the corner of Bedford and Dean in Brooklyn, during the mid 1940s. The album was shared with us by Lubavitch Archives. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
It seems the sun did not set in Thailand last night, with a Farbrengen at the Asian Regional Kinus HaShluchim having lasted through the night. Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, head shliach to Thailand and Kinus host, introduced the theme of the evening, “Brengen Yidden Tzum Rebb’n,” stressing the importance of following the Rebbe’s directives while working to connect Yidden with the Rebbe.
After 38 years of dedicated service in the U.S. Army, Chaplain Colonel Jacob Z. Goldstein has retired. In a ceremony in the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall at Fort Myer, Virginia, 35 army personal retired, with Col. Goldstein leading the group with his 38 years of service.
Devorah Kaplan graduated Beth Rivkah Seminary in France over 15 years ago, yet her time there still resonates with her and guides her on her Shlichus. She recently wrote a letter to the school’s dean and shared some of her memories from her time there.
A Jewish center will soon be built within the walls of the ‘Kremlin’ (fortress) that lies in the center of Kazan, the capital city of Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority autonomous republic in Russia.
Two U.S. Army chaplains, Colonel Rabbi Jacob Goldstein and Rabbi Sanford L. Dresin of the Aleph Institute, came to the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ. They addressed the students at Yeshivas Tiferes Bachurim, which is initiating a brand new Masters program, starting Rosh Chodesh Ellul of 5775.
Black fedoras definitely stand out against the backdrop of colorful straw hats, and in hot, humid Bangkok no less. This week, the city is seeing a record number of these as 31 Shluchim families from across Asia convene for five days of rejuvenation at its regional Kinus HaShluchim.
In a small Shul in the old Jewish quarter, known as ‘Zibetzin’, located at 17 Rue De Rosiers Shluchim and Anash got together for a Farbrengen in the Shul which the Rebbe was known to frequent for learning and Davening. Together with Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky the crowd Farbrenged into the night.
This morning, following his keynote address at the Kinus Hashluchim gala banquet in Paris last night, the Rebbe’s secretary Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was given a tour of the Beth Chaya Mushka girls’ school, whose older division was recently ranked as the top high school in France.
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