Hundreds participated today in Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s first ever Catskills Summerfest in Loch Sheldrake, NY. The event featured a myriad of rides for children of all ages, food and an awesome concert by the 8th Day.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 79, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Elul, Violence and Children, Preventing Pedophilia, Same-Gender “Marriage,” How to be More Organized.
In recent days, in response to the as-yet unproven accusation that a Jew committed an arson attack that led to the death of an Arab child (which evidence is increasingly showing was in fact a blood libel), Jews on social media have taken to posting a long list of names of Jewish children slain in terror attacks.
In honor of the special day of Chof Av, the Rebbe’s Father’s Yahrtzeit, Camp Machane Heights davened Mincha in the Rebbe’s House, and then heard a nice story about Reb Levik from Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, a secretary of the Rebbe.
A Jewish man is in critical condition at Kings County Hospital after he was struck by a car on Friday night. The public is asked to say Tehillim for Avrohom ben Faiga.
The owner of a kosher bakery in Philadelphia was shot in the face during an apparent attempted robbery Friday morning. She survived, though she is listed in critical condition.
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