CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — The Levaya of Mrs. Yocheved Chaya Rochel (Rochie) Paley obm passed by 770, THursday at 1:30pm. She passed away untimely today at the age of 26. Hundreds of Crown Heights residents attended the funeral. Many came in from the mountains where they are vacationing for the summer.
WASHINGTONVILLE, NY [CHI] — The children of Chabad’s Camp Gan Israel, located in Washingtonville, were excited to participate in a special charity project called the “Chai-a-thon.” Chai, means “life” in Hebrew, and the proceeds of this project will help sick children to enjoy a summer at Camp Simcha, a Jewish camp for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
In the early 1900’s, the tenements of Manhattan’s Lower East Side were populated with Jewish immigrants. A Rabbi, who resided in the ghetto-like community, once attended an ecumenical function at which a notoriously anti-Semitic Episcopalian Minister was in attendance.
“What a coincidence!” remarked the minister upon encountering the Rabbi: “It was just last night that I dreamt I was in Jewish Heaven.”
“Jewish Heaven?” mused the Rabbi. “What is it like in Jewish Heaven?”
“Oh!” replied the minister, “in Jewish Heaven children with unclean faces, shirts un-tucked and clothes un-pressed, play in the dirt. Women haggle with fruit-vendors, as panhandlers rudely interrupt. Wash hangs from a maze of clotheslines, the dripping water adding to an already muddy surface. And of course,” continued the minister with a wry grin, “There are plenty of Rabbis running to and fro, with large tomes tucked under their arms!”
This weeks edition of the Crown Heights Newspaper, available for print.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Friday, August 15, 2008 for holiday observance. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — iVolunteer, New York City’s friendly visiting program for homebound Holocaust Survivors, is hosting a Fundraising dinner for their volunteer visitors, survivors and friends. On September 25th, iVolunteer invites you to share an evening of festivity and inspiration to honor our dedicated volunteers. Chaired by Pat O’Gorman, a friend of iVolunteer who played an influential and instrumental role in the founding of CNN and the Food Network, we look forward to greeting you at the Edmund J. Safra Synogouge on 11 East 63rd St in Manhattan.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The Shluchim Placement Bureau, a division of The Shluchim Office, has launched MyShlichus.com, a fresh and high-tech way for Shluchim to find the ideal husband-wife team, and for the yungerliet (our next generation of shluchim) to find their ideal shlichus. Over the years, the placement department has been making ‘shlichus matches’ and leveling the playing field. The added benefit of our new website is to make it even simpler and easier, for Shluchim and future-Shluchim to find each other.
RISHON LETZION, Israel [CHI] — 300 children participated this afternoon in a fun filled get together organized by the Tzi’irim BeShlichut website run by the New York office of the shluchim under the management of Rabbi Gedalya Shemtov. The children, who are children of the shluchim from all over the world, are currently enjoying their holiday in Israel.
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Ad Mosai? Until When?” (Volume 52, Episode 205)
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Also available with Hebrew, French, Russian and Spanish subtitles in the Extended Article.
The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher) sets aside three “Cities of Refuge” for people who have accidentally killed someone and are afraid of the families’ vengeance, or for people who have purposely killed someone and are awaiting trial,.
2. The Rebbe begins discussing a certain aspect of the “Cities of Refuge”:
Our Sages tell us that the road to the “Cities of Refuge” was not only paved and broadened so that people could run there quickly; there were even signs pointing the way at the intersections saying “Refuge, Refuge”.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — One who visits Crown Heights these days will undoubtedly notice children wearing orange shirts. These children attend the Gan Menachem Day Camp, the largest camp in the neighborhood. For the past two months 200 children have been enjoying a variey of activities in the Oholei Torah Day Camp.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (by Beni Simcha-Shturem)
It is with great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the very untimely passing of Yocheved Chaya Rochel Paley OBM at the age of 26. Rochie was the wife of R. Yaakov Paley and the mother of 1-year-old Yosef Yitzchok.
On Isru Chag Shavuos Rochie didn’t wake up, and in the morning after she suffered a heart attack and was revived but remained in a coma and on life support. Family and friends had set up a website “Rochie’s Friendship Network” where people took on Hachlatos and volunteered to say Tehillim in her merit.
The Levaya take place at 1:00pm and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadaas Chapels and will be passing by 770 at around 1:30pm.
Baruch Dayan Hoemes
TALLINN, Estonia [FJC] — In Tallinn, the annual camp organized for Jewish children of Estonia has wrapped up for this season. Several dozen youngsters participated in this year’s event, which offered the group an interesting and educational program.
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