1,000-Plus Prepare for ‘Mega Challah Bake’
If there was a Guinness World Records category for the most women ever baking challah at once, then those participating in an upcoming event in Ontario, Canada, would definitely be in the running.
Daily Archives: May 11, 2014
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8:00pm: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Jacobson
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 15 tonight, Sunday, May 11th (11 Iyar) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Infidelity, the Art of Prayer and the Working Woman.”
Rabbi Yitzchok Schmukler, co-director of Chabad of the Bay Area with his wife, Malky, stands in front of the aron kodesh with the Torah he received on long-term loan, as his daughter Mushkie looks on.
No Torahs on Mars Yet, but One Small Step Closer
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to live in League City, Texas. But it doesn’t hurt.
Ottawa Chabad House Celebrates 30 Years of Service
Last week the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa headed by Dr. Joseph and Devorah Caytak celebrated 30 years of service to the Ottawa Jewish community.
Letter: 4 Lessons Learned from the “UPS Shadchan”
What can we learn from the story of the Shidduch that Terry Spiers, the UPS driver made? One reader shares four positive lessons he learned from last weeks sensational story.
by Yermi Kurkus
Moscow Jews Join Red Square Victory Day Parade
Amid the “Victory Day” celebrations in Moscow on May 9th, 69 years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar led a delegation of Jewish WWII veterans and members of the local Jewish community to the Red Square to participate in the celebrations.
3-Year-Old Falls from 3rd Story Window
At 6:30 this morning the parents of young children awoke to the sounds of their child screaming, to their horror they discovered that their three-year-old son had fallen from the window of their 3rd floor apartment.
Daphna Beerdsen was a regular at the Phnom Penh Chabad Center and a close acquaintance of Shliach to Cambodia Rabbi Bentzion Butman.
Jewish Mother, Daughter Killed in Cambodia
Daphna Beerdsen, a Dutch Jewish woman living in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, was found slain in her apartment along with her 19-month-old daughter on April 28. Rabbi Bentzion Butman, Shliach to Cambodia and a close acquaintance of the deceased, spoke to the media about Daphna’s unique positive character and the community’s “incredible loss.”
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