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: May 26, 2008

Ben Rubin - The Journal News

Rabbis prepare for a formal picture at yesterday's regional Chabad conference at the Chabad Lubavitch of Rockland center in New City. (Ben Rubin/The Journal News)

NEW CITY, NY — Before a packed room of fellow rabbis, Avremel Kotlarsky told the audience that they had made huge strides as an organization, but that it would take far more effort to continue growing.

More than 100 Chabad rabbis gather at New City conference

Ben Rubin – The Journal News

Rabbis prepare for a formal picture at yesterday’s regional Chabad conference at the Chabad Lubavitch of Rockland center in New City. (Ben Rubin/The Journal News)

NEW CITY, NY — Before a packed room of fellow rabbis, Avremel Kotlarsky told the audience that they had made huge strides as an organization, but that it would take far more effort to continue growing.

Posted to Shlichus on
2
Mazal Tov's View More
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

1
New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom
Baby Boy!

Meyer and Chaya (nee Engelberg) Shushan from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Boruch and Adeli Zimmerman from Oro Valley, AZ had a baby girl!

1
New Engagement!

Dovi Vogel (Wilmington, DE) to Chanie Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yitzy Bernstein (Freehold, NJ) to Brocha Gleyzer (Monsey, NY)
Baby Boy!

Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Levi Labor (Chicago, IL) to Etti Krinsky (Crown Heights)

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The shluchim office is pleased to announce a regional Shluchim Online School Student Retreat for young Shluchim in South and Central America.

The regional online school event will be held Iyar 24 (May 29) thru Sivan 2 (June 5), 5768 (2008) in Baranquilla, Colombia, and is being organized by The Shluchim Office and the Shliach of Baranquilla, Rabbi & Mrs. Yossi Liberow.

Shluchim Online School Student Retreat

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The shluchim office is pleased to announce a regional Shluchim Online School Student Retreat for young Shluchim in South and Central America.

The regional online school event will be held Iyar 24 (May 29) thru Sivan 2 (June 5), 5768 (2008) in Baranquilla, Colombia, and is being organized by The Shluchim Office and the Shliach of Baranquilla, Rabbi & Mrs. Yossi Liberow.

Posted to Shlichus on
4

Lag Ba’Omer in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, MD [CHI] — Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore held a parade on the main road, Park Heights Ave, leading thru the Jewish comunity. 200 people participated, magic juggling show by Michael Rossman, guest speaker Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Head Shliach of Maryland, and the was MC HaTomim Eliezer Dovid New.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Posted to Chabad News on
16
Rabbi Moishy and Rivky (nee Lepkivker) Goldman will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Waterloo, ON where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the local communities of Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph, as well as the campuses of the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Zalman Aaron Grossbaum, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Ontario.

Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Mendy Fellig of Waterloo for their assistance to the new Shluchim.

The new Shluchim can be reached via email at rmg@jewishwaterloo.com.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

New Shluchim To Ontario

Rabbi Moishy and Rivky (nee Lepkivker) Goldman will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Waterloo, ON where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the local communities of Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph, as well as the campuses of the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Zalman Aaron Grossbaum, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Ontario.

Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Mendy Fellig of Waterloo for their assistance to the new Shluchim.

The new Shluchim can be reached via email at rmg@jewishwaterloo.com.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

Posted to Shlichus on
7
Chabad.org

Friendship Circle volunteers Chaya Serraf, left, and Amanda Shitrit play with Justin Diotte in a mock medical office, which will be part of Montreal's future Friendship Center and Life Village. (Photo: Marketwire)

MONTREAL, Canada — Montreal's Friendship Circle, a branch of an international Chabad-Lubavitch network that pairs teenage volunteers with children with special needs, broke ground on Canada's first fully-functioning indoor city and activities center for children with special needs.

Groundbreaking Ushers in Canada’s First Indoor City for Children With Special Needs

Chabad.org

Friendship Circle volunteers Chaya Serraf, left, and Amanda Shitrit play with Justin Diotte in a mock medical office, which will be part of Montreal’s future Friendship Center and Life Village. (Photo: Marketwire)

MONTREAL, Canada — Montreal’s Friendship Circle, a branch of an international Chabad-Lubavitch network that pairs teenage volunteers with children with special needs, broke ground on Canada’s first fully-functioning indoor city and activities center for children with special needs.

Posted to Shlichus on
14

With JLI’s spring semester, Talmudic Ethics, now underway we are pleased to bring you the weekly video produced to open this weeks class. Over 250 shluchim around the world are teaching Lesson Three this week to almost 13,000 students in what’s being described as JLI’s largest attendance ever. The course is CLE and CME accredited, attracting scores of attorneys and doctors around the country.

JLI’s Talmudic Ethics Lesson 3

With JLI’s spring semester, Talmudic Ethics, now underway we are pleased to bring you the weekly video produced to open this weeks class. Over 250 shluchim around the world are teaching Lesson Three this week to almost 13,000 students in what’s being described as JLI’s largest attendance ever. The course is CLE and CME accredited, attracting scores of attorneys and doctors around the country.

Posted to Videos on