Panhandler Calls the Cops on Storeowners

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Our neighborhood has its fair share of panhandlers in our Shuls, on Kingston, at store entrances asking people to give them Tzedakah. Some are Jewish others are not, some are respectful and some are downright rude! This new face though prefers to call the cops on storeowners who ask him to move along, and we got it all on video.

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PSA: Free Parenting Workshop this Thursday

Professor France Weill, a speech-language Pathologist expert in the field of language development at Touro College, will be holding a series of free interactive workshops for parents of young children at our facility in Crown Heights.

Diplomat Peels Back Curtain on Prime Ministerial Dealings

by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Israeli diplomat Yehuda Avner, center, accompanied Prime Minister Menachem Begin, left, to a meeting at the White House with U.S. President Jimmy Carter, right.

With a parliamentary system marred by a series of fractious political parties and beset by conflicting forces within and without, the tiny country of Israel is difficult ship for any prime minister to steer.

Info to be Menachem Avel the Deitsch Family

The Deitsch family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their dear Father, Husband, Son and Brother, Rabbi Levi Deitsch OBM at the families home, 518 Crown Street between Kingston and Albany Avenues.

Davening times are as follows – Shacharis: 10:00am Mincha: 3:15pm Maariv 6:00pm

The family will be receiving comforters until 10:00pm. Mrs. Cyrel Deitsch will be receiving comforters between 11:00am and 1:00pm and again from 8:00pm until 10:00pm.

Condolences can be emailed to the family at shaya@jewishmc.com.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

The Niggun of the Mittler Rebbe’s Kapelye

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: At a Farbrengen 10 Kislev, 5741 marking the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Dovber – the Mittler Rebbe, the Rebbe requests a Niggun that was sung by the Mittler Rebbe’s Kapelye.

The Rebbe’s Response to an IDF Widow

In light of the recent tragedies the Avner Institute would like to present a moving letter that a young mother whose husband perished during the Yom Kippur war asking: How can she explain this tragedy to her children? What words of comfort can she give them? And the Rebbe’s response.

Courtesy of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levin, chief librarian of Agudas Chasidei Chabad of Brooklyn.

New Shluchim to Drexel University

Long regarded as one of America’s best-kept industry-oriented academic secrets, the 119-year-old Drexel University, alma mater of such technology legends as Internet founding father Paul Baran and barcode co-creator Norman Joseph Woodland, is slowly climbing the ladder of prestige once more.