Accidents
Blogs
Camp News
Chabad News
Chanukah
Comics
Communal Matters
Crime
Crown Heights News
Farbrengens
Fires
General
Israel
Jewish News
Kinus Hashluchim
Letter and Spirit
Mazal Tov!
Merkos Shlichus
Mivtzoim
Monsey News
Notices
NYC News
Op-Ed
Photo Galleries
Picture of the Day
PSA
Real Estate
Rockland County News
Satire
Shlichus
Simcha Galleries
Something Jewish
Upstate News
Videos
Weekly Voice

Daily Archives: August 21, 2007

Shomrim Searching the Subway Station

Crown Heights, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday at around 10 PM, a group of teens went around terrorizing the community. The group started out at Union St and New York Ave where they attempted to mug a bochur, and then fled down Union St and mugged another Bochur between Brooklyn Ave and Kingston Ave.

More in the Extended Article

Muggings Terrorizing Community

Shomrim Searching the Subway Station

Crown Heights, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday at around 10 PM, a group of teens went around terrorizing the community. The group started out at Union St and New York Ave where they attempted to mug a bochur, and then fled down Union St and mugged another Bochur between Brooklyn Ave and Kingston Ave.

More in the Extended Article

Posted to Crime on
17
Mazal Tov's View More
New Engagement!

Yossi Gutnick (Sydney, Australia) to Chaya Eisnebach (Northwest, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at the Garden House 1386 S. John’s Pl
Baby Boy!

Yaakov and Shevi (nee Katzman) Behrman from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Moishe and Frayda (nee Aber) Scheinfeld from Brooklyn, NY had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yermi and Daniella Liam (nee Pohlman) Kurkus from Lake Lure, NC had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Kalmenson (Crown Heights) to Chanale Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Zevi Jacobson (De Moines, IA) to Ita Gurevitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at the JCM
New Engagement!

Sruli Friedman (Coral Springs, FL) to Adina Izgelov (Milwaukee, WI) L’Chaim: Monday, April 28th, 8:00pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Shlomo Werde (Crown Heights) to Gila Bensusan (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Chezki and Mushkie Golowinski from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 539 Crown Street
New Engagement!

Avi Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Mindy Neubort (Fair Lawn, NJ) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitch Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
Baby Boy!

Chaim and Bracha (nee Morozow) Rendler from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Zalmy and Esther (nee Tabari) Hyams from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Shmuly and Chaya (nee Lewin) Stone from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yossi Krinsky (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Rochele Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Baby Boy!

Yossef and Naomi (nee Malinas) Haddad from Milan, Italy had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Menachem Forer (Toronto, Canada) to Sari Gottlib (Hillside, NJ) L’Chaim: Thursday, April 24th, at 1349 President Street
Li-Or Amir - Chabad.edu

Jerusalem, Israel — “So, have you ever killed somebody?”

This was probably the first army-related question I was asked by my Taglit-birthright Israel-Mayanot guests, most of them from the University of Pennsylvania and accompanied by Rabbi Levi Haskelevich. It was asked amid clouds of Golan Heights dust as we were driving through the rocky terrain on a mini-4WD.

Rediscovering my Birthplace on a birthright Trip

Li-Or Amir – Chabad.edu

Jerusalem, Israel — “So, have you ever killed somebody?”

This was probably the first army-related question I was asked by my Taglit-birthright Israel-Mayanot guests, most of them from the University of Pennsylvania and accompanied by Rabbi Levi Haskelevich. It was asked amid clouds of Golan Heights dust as we were driving through the rocky terrain on a mini-4WD.

Posted to Chabad News on
1

Rabbi Zvi and Mrs Chayale (nee Greenberg) Hershcovich of Montreal, Canada will IYH be going on Shlichus to Stavropol, Russia, after Tishrei, where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish Community.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Lazar.

New Shluchim to Stavropol, Russia

Rabbi Zvi and Mrs Chayale (nee Greenberg) Hershcovich of Montreal, Canada will IYH be going on Shlichus to Stavropol, Russia, after Tishrei, where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish Community.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Lazar.

Posted to Shlichus on
16
Joshua Runyan
A NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Dean, shortly before it left the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm

Cancun, Mexico — Rabbi Mendel Druk, co-director of the new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in Cancun, Mexico, reported on Tuesday that despite expectations, Hurricane Dean largely spared the resort area's Jewish community the brunt of its wrath.

Cancun’s New Chabad House Safe and Sound After Hurricane

Joshua Runyan
A NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Dean, shortly before it left the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm

Cancun, Mexico — Rabbi Mendel Druk, co-director of the new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in Cancun, Mexico, reported on Tuesday that despite expectations, Hurricane Dean largely spared the resort area’s Jewish community the brunt of its wrath.

Posted to Chabad News on
1

Baltimore, MD — The Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Baltimore under the esteem leadership of the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Weber and the Menahel Gashmi Rabbi Ephraim Rosenbloom, has with the grace of G-D completed the signing on a building for the Yeshiva. The purchase was made possible with the help of the Head Shliach to Maryland Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan.

Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore Buys Building

Baltimore, MD — The Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Baltimore under the esteem leadership of the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Weber and the Menahel Gashmi Rabbi Ephraim Rosenbloom, has with the grace of G-D completed the signing on a building for the Yeshiva. The purchase was made possible with the help of the Head Shliach to Maryland Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan.

Posted to Chabad News on
13

Photo Gallery: Sunday in Mei Menuchos, Upstate NY

South Fallsburg, NY — Summer time many Crown Heights families make their way upstate to spend their vacation, and Sundays become the regular outing for Barbeques and camp fires in the various bungalow colonies.

This gallery is from the Mei Menuchos colony in South Fallsburg, of kids roasting marshmallows as the evening sets in.

More in the Extended Article!

Posted to Photo Galleries on
9
Pamela McLoughlin - New Haven Register

New Haven, CT — Rabbi Yossi Hodakov didn’t realize how meaningful the little things can be to a family when there’s a hospitalized child — until his own 8-year-old daughter had a stay at Yale-New Haven

So when Hodakov delivered some 100 toys Monday to Yale-New Haven’s Children’s Hospital, it really came from the heart.

It’s a Toy-ous Time at Yale Kids Hospital

Pamela McLoughlin – New Haven Register

New Haven, CT — Rabbi Yossi Hodakov didn’t realize how meaningful the little things can be to a family when there’s a hospitalized child — until his own 8-year-old daughter had a stay at Yale-New Haven

So when Hodakov delivered some 100 toys Monday to Yale-New Haven’s Children’s Hospital, it really came from the heart.

Posted to Shlichus on
2