New Sign Tells Shabbos Times!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A new billboard was installed today, a few hours before Shabbos on Kingston and Crown, this billboard simply says ‘share the light’ with a screen underneath which welcomed the Shluchim to Crown Heights and told passerby’s what time Shabbos is coming in today.

Reb Arkeh and Guggie Tzivin contributed the wall of their store, House of Glatt, and home for the placement of the new billboard.

FridayLight is a project of Chabad of California directed by Rabbi Ari Baitelman. The sign was generously donated by an anonymous donor and was dedicated in memory of Mrs. Pesya Leah bas Shraga Feivel Lapine HY”D.

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KINUS: Bochurim Invited to main Banquet

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — CrownHeights.info has learned that Bochrim who are involved in Merkos projects will be allowed to attend the banquet of the Kinus HaShluchim.

Meaning; the Bochrim who went on Merkos Shlichus, teach in the MyShliach.com or Jnet.org programs could pick up their passes to the banquet on Sunday morning between 10:30 and 11:30 AM on the first floor of the Merkos offices at 788 Eastern Pkwy.

Chabad-Lubavitch Announces Plans to Resume Operations of Rostov Yeshiva

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Agudas Chassidei Chabad, the umbrella organization of the international Chabad-Lubavitch movement, today, Friday, announced plans to re-open the Lubavitch Yeshiva in Rostov, Russia.

The announcement was made following an extraordinary meeting today of its executive committee, which invited Rabbi Yosef Aronov, chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad in Israel and head of the yeshiva, and Rabbi Berel Lazar, head Lubavitch emissary in the former Soviet Union and Russia’s chief rabbi.

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Mountain Region Chabad House Symbol of Exurbs’ Growth Nationwide

Mendy Hecht – Chabad.org

Rabbi Mendel Bendet, second from left, discusses Judaism with Poconos residents.

STROUDSBURG, PA — For at least the past decade, demographers across the nation have been chronicling a new form of suburban flight: the booming relocation of city-dwellers and suburbanites to the exurbs, the furthest extremes of the population bands surrounding major metropolises.

Shomrim Apprehend Trespasser and Burglar

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two alert residents on their way home Thursday night spotted a Black male sneaking from porch to porch of Jewish homes on Carroll Street between Troy and Schenectady, the residents immediately called Shomrim and did not confront the perp.

Within moments over 10 Shomrim members responded and surrounded the area from the alleyway and front of one of the homes belonging to Reb Yisroel Shemtov, which he made his way to rear to see if there was anything of value there, but ran into a few members who escorted him to the front of the house.

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Chabad Conference Initiatives: Jewish Adult Education Goes Online

EJ Tansky – Lubavitch.com

BROOKLYN, NY — If online MBA programs and YouTube got together and had a smart Jewish baby, i would probably bear a striking resemblance to Chabad-Lubavitch’s newbor distance learning venture.

The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Toldos

The Rebbe says:

1. The Rebbe explains that all four answers must be connected:

Even though these are four different explanations of this verse, they must all be connected to each other because they are all explaining the same verse.

A proof to this logic:

The Torah says , “You may not wear Shaatnez (a combination of wool and linen together)”. Our Sages in the Mishnayos teach us that the word “Shaatnez” is really made up of three different words- “Shua – smoothed”, “Tavui – spun”, and “Nuz – woven”. The Talmud learns that since these three different words were contracted into one word, one is not liable for wearing a combination of wool and linen unless all three of these processes were done together; only when it was smoothed, spun, and woven together are you liable for the Biblical prohibition of “Shaatnez”.