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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Monday night at the Bais Rivka Ballroom there was a special event of commemoration, marking 30 days of Chana (nee Raskin) Wolvovsky’s passing.
In Chana’s memory her friends and family are working on building a brand new bridal suite at the Crown Heights mikvah.
More in the Extended Article!
Click Here to listen to a recording of the entire event. (1:15 mins, 17.6MB)
KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan — Karaganda, the second largest city in the Kazakhstan republic, will soon benefit from full time Chabad representatives.
Rabbi Chaim Shalom and Chaya Mushka Segal, and their baby, Levi Yitzchok, will be leaving their native Israel after the High Holy Days to serve the local Jewish community in this industrial, Muslim city.
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KAUAI, HI — Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis will be on Kaua‘i through Aug. 17 as part of a summer-long community outreach training. They will be equipped with books and programming ideas with the intent to reinforce Jewish pride and enhance Jewish education.
GAITHERSBURG, MD — Children from Sderot, Israel, wrapped up a month-long visit to Montgomery County last week, during which they got to know U.S. host families and attended Camp Gan Israel at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Gaithersburg.
BROOKLYN NY — A man broke into an often-attacked Remsen Street synagogue early Monday morning — but this time, it was common thievery, not anti-Semitism that appeared to be on the crook’s mind.
Within the last few weeks, there have been three unfortunate incidents. Two had fatal outcomes. One, miraculously, did not. These episodes, their causes, and the ensuing response (or lack thereof), have prompted me to write this.
On Thursday, the 6th of Av, a daughter of a Crown Heights family died in her sleep. She overdosed on heroin. On Friday, the 7th of Av, a young man from a frum family in Baltimore was killed in a car accident. Both he and the driver were drunk. On Shabbos, the 23rd of Tammuz, a young man crashed into a bungalow colony and, thank G-d, escaped with minor injuries. He was drunk. The two boys were 16; the girl in her 20s.
Each of these incidents could have, and should have, been avoided. But they weren’t. Sadly, incidents like these will happen again, and again, and again. Unless we do something about it.
As war intensified in Georgia Monday, thousands of Jews in the former Soviet republic adjusted to living in a war zone. With his constituents hunkered down in their homes, the country’s chief rabbi, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Avraham Michaelashvili, announced a three-day blood drive to help the injured.
BROOKLYN, NY [CBS] — If a Brooklyn councilman has his way, city residents who own cars could be given exclusive rights to park within their neighborhoods.
Tisha B’Av by day in 770, Mincha in Tefillin and break fast.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (photos by: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)
Marking 30 days to Chana’s passing, a special event of commemoration and inspiration honoring Chana will be taking place on Monday, August 11th at 7:00pm for woman and girls in the Bais Rivka Ballroom at 310 Crown Street.
Full flyer in the Extended Article.
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The nation’s largest mass transit system can boast a new distinction: A survey shows New York has cooler buses in summer than many U.S. cities.
NYC Transit workers recently took buses’ temperature 2,200 times, in the agency’s largest such effort to date. Less than 5 percent were considered unacceptably hot — more than 78 degrees.
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