Daily Archives: November 13, 2009
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by Getzy Markowitz - Opinion of the Masses
Shluchim registering for the Kinus. {Inset: Getzy Markowitz)
A friend of mine raised the irony of my standing along a column of rabbis who were waiting to register themselves for this year's International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. His sarcasm was not so much directed at my not being a celebrated shliach, as much as at my usual frill of skipping queues as a frequent flyer elite.
However, standing among rabbis and leaders who are my heroes, and champions of the Jewish people, meant lingering in the midst of the elite enlisted.
Op-Ed: Confessions of a Pro Tem Elitist
by Getzy Markowitz – Opinion of the Masses
Shluchim registering for the Kinus. {Inset: Getzy Markowitz)
A friend of mine raised the irony of my standing along a column of rabbis who were waiting to register themselves for this year’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. His sarcasm was not so much directed at my not being a celebrated shliach, as much as at my usual frill of skipping queues as a frequent flyer elite.
However, standing among rabbis and leaders who are my heroes, and champions of the Jewish people, meant lingering in the midst of the elite enlisted.
A First in Crown Heights, a Mishmor, ULY in OT
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This past Thursday night about 50 boys of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s 7th and 8th grades packed the zal of Oholei Torah for the first night of an inter-Yeshiva Mishmor learning program. Each boy was carefully matched up with a zal bocher, with whom he learned a sicha of the Rebbe. Followed by a wild Jewperdy game to which one team managed to pull ahead despite the very close game.
Fire in a Multi Family Home on Eastern Pkwy
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a multi family home on Eastern Parkway. The incident took palace at 741 Eastern Parkway at around 11:45am, where fire broke out on the ground floor.
Photos: Shluchim get Tips on Security and Safety
In a session dubbed “critical for all directors of Chabad institutions in the US or abroad” leading security experts from the United States Department of State, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, NYPD, and the ADL shared invaluable lifesaving information on concrete steps to take, to secure Moisdos and safeguard members of Chabad Shluchim’s communities.
Alongside the thousands of articles about the happenings in the Lubavitcher communities around the world, the staff at CrownHeights.info follows diligently after the new Shluchim the join the army of Shluchim around the world.
With the opening of the worldwide conference of Shluchim in New York we gathered into one article the full list of all the new Shluchim that we reported about in the last year.
The New Shluchim of the Past Year – 5769-5770!
Alongside the thousands of articles about the happenings in the Lubavitcher communities around the world, the staff at CrownHeights.info follows diligently after the new Shluchim the join the army of Shluchim around the world.
With the opening of the worldwide conference of Shluchim in New York we gathered into one article the full list of all the new Shluchim that we reported about in the last year.
By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.
Congratulating a friend whose son and daughter had gotten married within a month of each other, a woman asked, “So tell me, what kind of man did your daughter marry?”
“Oh, he’s wonderful,” gushed the mother. “He lets her sleep in, wants her to go to a spa regularly and insists on taking her out to dinner every night.”
“That’s nice,” said her friend.
“And how do you like your son’s new wife?”
The mother sighed. “I’m not so happy about that situation,” she said. “His wife gets up late, spends all her time at the salon and always wants to have dinner in a restaurant.”
“Say a little and do much” – Avot 1:15
Talk is Cheap – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is!
By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.
Congratulating a friend whose son and daughter had gotten married within a month of each other, a woman asked, “So tell me, what kind of man did your daughter marry?”
“Oh, he’s wonderful,” gushed the mother. “He lets her sleep in, wants her to go to a spa regularly and insists on taking her out to dinner every night.”
“That’s nice,” said her friend.
“And how do you like your son’s new wife?”
The mother sighed. “I’m not so happy about that situation,” she said. “His wife gets up late, spends all her time at the salon and always wants to have dinner in a restaurant.”
“Say a little and do much” – Avot 1:15
As the 25th-annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries draws to a close, the almost 3,000 attendees – who flew in from locations spanning the globe – will meet up with their visiting lay leaders and make their way from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to the New York State National Guard Armory for the conference’s concluding banquet.
Chabad.org Will Simulcast Grand Lubavitch Banquet
As the 25th-annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries draws to a close, the almost 3,000 attendees – who flew in from locations spanning the globe – will meet up with their visiting lay leaders and make their way from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., to the New York State National Guard Armory for the conference’s concluding banquet.
At the Itamaraty Palace in Brazil Shluchim Rabbi Yosef Schildkraut and Rabbi Y. Dovid Weitman both Shluchim to Sao Palo, Brazil met with the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva and Israeli president Shimon Peres.
Shluchim Meet with Israeli, Brazilian Presidents
At the Itamaraty Palace in Brazil Shluchim Rabbi Yosef Schildkraut and Rabbi Y. Dovid Weitman both Shluchim to Sao Palo, Brazil met with the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva and Israeli president Shimon Peres.
Thousands of Shluchim, CH’ers Dance with Holtzbergs Sefer Torah
Following the completion of the Torah, the thousands poured into the streets and danced their way over to 770.
Shluchim, CH’ers Complete Holtzbergs Sefer Torah
Thousands of Shluchim and Crown Heightsers packed in to the Oholei Torah ballroom to complete the Sefer Torah which was written by the Shluchim in memory of Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg HYD.
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