This Tuesday Yud Daled Kislev, Dec. 1st, the Rally At The Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12 will take place. The buses will be leaving from in front of 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm. Cost is $3.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday through Saturday, November 26-28 for Holiday Observance.
Because Thanksgiving Day is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”). (Thursday Only!)
PLEASE NOTE: Friday and Saturday, November 27-28 are NOT major legal holidays. Parking meter regulations and all other parking regulations other than Alternate Side Parking will be in effect on Friday and Saturday, November 27-28.
Click here for the 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
The Friendship Circle in Montreal has an opportunity to win $250,000 through the Aviva Community Fund, but they need at least 3000 votes by tomorrow to enter into the next round, and keep their chances of winning in order to grow and continue to do the amazing work that they do.
Coast to coast there will be two gatherings, in New York and California, marking the Shloshim to the tragic passing of Alta Shula Swerdlov OBM, the daughter of Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov, Shluchim in Israel.
Thousands of children from schools worldwide will gather for a children’s rally in honor of Gabi and Rivka’s Yortzeit.
The focus of this months missions is Shlichus. We are reflecting on true roll models: Gabi and Rivka, with practical ways of how we can emulate them.
CrownHeights.info, Chabad.org and Jewish.tv presents a live broadcast memorial service being held tonight at 8pm in honor of Gabi and Rivki Holtzberg’s yahrtzeit at Chabad of the Upper East Side.
The memorial will include an address by Rabbi Gabi Holtzberg’s father, Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg, the patron of the Rohr Chabad House in Mumbai and philanthropist, Mr. George Rohr, and Rabbi Binyomin Krasiansky as well as a memorial performance by Avraham Fried and musical tribute by Moshe Nunez. The event will take place at Chabad of the Upper East Side.
The Shloshim for Devorah Nechama OBM (Bloch) Neuwirth will be take place tomorrow, Thursday, Chof Hay Cheshvan – November 12, 2009 at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown Street, entrance on Albany avenue, at 9 pm.
Special presentation will honor the memory of Devorie OBM. Your presence and participation will give an Aliya and give Kavod to the Nshoma of the Nfteres.
In a letter sent home from schools, community physicians warn of a Mumps outbreak in our community. The note said that “although at this time seems concentrated amongst adolescent boys; we expect will spread further throughout the community.” The note goes on to explain what the symptoms are and how to go about treating it.
Avos Ubanim International and the Igud Menahalei Yeshivos are proud to announce the official launching of this year’s Father & Son learning program.
Fathers! Here is a golden opportunity to spend quality time with your son! Join many other fathers and sons as they gather for an hour of learning and quality time. The Kol Torah is contagious!
The presentation of testimony at the trial of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin in South Dakota has ended. The defense has rested.
Monday morning, 22 Cheshvan, the lawyers will present final arguments. And then the case will go to the jury for deliberation.
Monday there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5-12. Busses will be leaving from 770 at 5:00pm, $3.00.
Tonight, Motzoai Shabbos at 2:00am we change our clocks 1 hour back to 1:00am, and gain an hour of sleep.
So make sure to change your clocks before you get to bed as to avoid any confusion (and being an hour early to everything).
Note: To learn more about “Standard Time” and “Daylight Savings time” Click on them.
For the first time, JLI’s Advanced Learning Initiative, MyShiur is now available to Anash in the Crown Heights community in a special shiur presented by the course author. The new course, Explorations in Talmud: Tractate Shabbat, is geared to students without any prior Gemorah experience as well as to seasoned learners. It will include an examination of the biblical sources for the 39 melachot as well as a foundational study of underlying principles that define the term melachah.
There will be a global Tzivos Hashem Cheshvon rally live on the internet on Thursday at 1pm EST. Close to 2000 kids signed up to the program already with many more children from around the world expected to be watching the rally live online.
Every weeknight over 350 boys from grades 5-8 get together in three different locations throughout the community for an hour of learning.
The boys spend their time reviewing the Gemara and Rashi inside, doing their homework with the help of our devoted Madrichim, as well as learning Mishnayos, Gemara and Tanya by heart. There is also a Shiur every night in a Sicha of the Rebbe, Halacha, Chassidishe story etc. The program ends with a Minyan for Ma’ariv, davening at the pace of the boys.
