This coming Motzai Shabbos, January 5th, Crown Heights Hatzalah will be hosting a symposium for the members of the Crown Heights community. In conjunction with Maimonides Medical Center, Crown Heights Hatzalah symposium will touch on health questions and issues of the community.
In the third session of their widely popular Life-Skills series, Living Chassidus will be hosting workshop featuring Mrs. Chaya Margolin, financial coach.
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) spoke by phone with the father of one of the Jewish minors who was detained by the Shin Bet on suspicion of involvement in a security incident.
David Kornbluth — who served as Israel’s UNESCO envoy from 2005-2009 — said the country was pulling out of the body now largely because the US had scheduled to leave by the end of 2018.
Chof Daled Teves in Montreal was celebrated with a farbrengen attended by many from the community. The farbrengen was MC’ed by Rabbi Dovid Cohen, in memory of the Rebbes’ Mekubal Rabbi Zev Wolff Greenglass obm, whos’ yartzeit is on Chof Bes Teves.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on an official visit to Brazil for the swearing in of the new Brazilian President. During the trip, as the Israeli Prime Minister stepped out of his vehicle, he was greeted with a massive crowd chanting “Israel, Israel.”
Yosef Hershkop is a resident of Crown Heights Brooklyn. A popular Op Ed writer on world affairs, Yosef takes on a difficult and worrying topic. There are three underage frum boys arrested by the Shabak in Israel, and we must worry that are being tortured.
Chasidic Gems from JLI released a short clip by Rabbi Yossi Jacobson titled “Create Waves.”
Adam Levitz, a 44-year-old married father of three, was in liver failure. Things were getting worse and he knew it. On Dec. 20, he received a new liver and a new lease on life. His donor, a Chabad Rabbi.
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