You thought Yehupitz was a mythical place. It isn’t. It’s in Hastings, Minnesota, a twenty minute drive from the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. As Yehupitz’s go, this one doesn’t have many if any Jews. And out of this Yehupitz came Deke, a Coffee shop owner whose Jewish name is Chaim Branchaud-Linsk, a Jew from North Minneapolis.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday there was a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah memory of HaRav HaChossid Reb Mordechai HaKohen Rivkin AH. The final letters were written this afternoon at the Rivkin residence on Crown St, following which the Sefer Torah was escorted by hundreds of Crown Heights residence in dance to 770 where Hakafos were held.
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LIVINGSTON, NJ — Friendship Circle has had its first official game. The team, whose 14 teenage and young adult players have special needs, had practiced for seven weeks in basketball clinics that are part of the group’s Teen Scene program. Its opponent was the Jaguars, a group of middle school kids from Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy.
BONDI, Australia [AJN] — In a desperate bid to broker a deal, Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue’s embattled Rabbi Moshe Gutnick is seeking a court order to block an upcoming vote that will make his position redundant and force the matter before a Jewish court.
On Tuesday, lawyers for Rabbi Gutnick filed an application with the NSW Supreme Court seeking a declaration to have conditions over his employment mediated before a beth din.
In honor of the second JLI Unity Lecture that was held on Sunday March 29, a new video by Chaim Fogelman was produced, released and shown for the hundreds of locations that were tuned in. The video conveys the message of our unity, hope and belief and is very appropriate for our times.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Sunday at around 8:30pm a Lubavitch woman was struck by a car driven by two bochurim. It happened on the corner of Kingston Ave and President St.
This niggun on the Rebbe’s new Kapitel was submitted to CrownHeights.info. Composed by Moishy Goldstein, a bochur at the Oholei Torah Mesivta. The song is based on Kapital Kuf Ches in Tehillim. Enjoy!
MELBOURNE, Australia — Over the past 2 months there have been many hachonos taking place in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melboune Australia in the lead up to Yud Alef Nisan.
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Rabbi Eli Goodman, the Rebbe’s Shliach to Long Beach, is famous for being innovative and talented. Here is one of newest innovations- a virtual invitation to his kehilla, and the local Jews of Long Beach, to take part in the rarest Jewish event of them all- Birchas HaChamoh.
Photo Gallery Continued in the Extended Article! (By Levi Teitelbaum)
BROOKLYN, NY — A truck from City Harvest pulled up on a recent weekday to a food pantry in a heavily Orthodox Jewish section of Midwood, Brooklyn. The driver stepped out and unloaded cabbages, bananas and Tropicana juice containers bearing labels with the letter “K” in a circle, indicating that they were kosher.
Preparations are in full swing for the Annual Mitzvah Tank Parade. The Parade is slated to take place on Thursday, April 2nd, the 8th of Nissan, in honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s upcoming 107th Birthday the following Sunday, 11 Nissan.
Film offers frightening glimpse unto U.S. terrorism training camps.
They are unusually inspiring people. I’m sitting with Rabbi Zalman and Mrs. Chanie Wolowik just 22 days after their nine-year-old son, Levi Yitzchok, a’h, suddenly and inexplicably passed away. This coming Monday night, the Five Towns and Far Rockaway communities, and indeed Jewish communities far and wide around the world, will be marking the sheloshim, the end of the 30-day period since Levi’s passing.
“The house feels empty without Levi,” says Chanie. “He was my sidekick and went almost everywhere and did everything with Zalman,” she said. Their older son, Mendel, is away attending Yeshiva in Detroit and the next boy is seven years old, she explains, so just when they had started to have another big boy around the house they are now once again, she feels, dealing almost exclusively with little kids.
As Chabad sh’lichim in the Five Towns, the Wolowiks are natural born leaders. Still, however, they are first and foremost parents, who are raising a beautiful family and who raised a remarkable young man who left us for reasons that are far beyond our comprehension but certainly way too soon.
Nashville’s only kosher food show, KOSHERfoodFEST, will be Sunday, March 29, at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, 801 Percy Warner Blvd.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Late Friday afternoon, a young Black man aroused the suspicion of a Police foot-patrol on Lefferts Avenue, prompting a short chase and the arrest of the individual for possession of narcotics with the intent to sell.
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GLENDALE, CA [CHI] — Rabbi Simcha Backman, Director of Chabad of Glendale and the Foothill Communities, delivers the invocation for the City Council.
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