Crown Heights has seen many events, dinners and gatherings, but Oholei Torah’s Gala Banquet and Ground Breaking ceremony this past Sunday was truly something unique and it carried a true sense of community pride and joy.
Beginning with a cocktail program the hundreds of guests had a chance to see first hand the plans for the New Mikvah, and meet with the designer of the Mikvah. Following that program, they crowd gathered in a large tent erected for the Awards ceremony and Ground Breaking.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Oholei Torah’s Ground Breaking Ceremony And Annual Dinner
Crown Heights has seen many events, dinners and gatherings, but Oholei Torah’s Gala Banquet and Ground Breaking ceremony this past Sunday was truly something unique and it carried a true sense of community pride and joy.
Beginning with a cocktail program the hundreds of guests had a chance to see first hand the plans for the New Mikvah, and meet with the designer of the Mikvah. Following that program, they crowd gathered in a large tent erected for the Awards ceremony and Ground Breaking.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Greeting the overflowing crowd was the Master of ceremonies, Meyer Eichler, an Oholei Torah Alumnus and a close friend of Shaya Boymelgreen’s. To open the event the Rebbe’s Letter was read by Rabbi Eliezer Teitelbaum, the son of Reb Michoel Teitelbaum, founder of Oholei Torah. Menachem Lehrer and Oholei Torah Talmid said a Dvar Torah both in English and in yiddish.
A most impressive list of young Crown Heights members were awarded with the prestigious Young Leadership Award, which was presented by Rabbis Joseph Rosenfeld and Nosson Blumes.
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz greeted the event and gave a proclamation to the awardees
Reb Mordechai Boymelgreen spoke on behalf of the Boymelgreen family with Divrei Torah and the lives of his father and father-in-law whose memory is being perpetuated in this Mikvah Project.
A unique piece of art, made from cherry wood and silver was prepared with the Mikvah’s Logo and presented to Shaya & Sarah Boymelgreen the Dinner Chairpersons and Shaya’s Parents, Reb Mordechai and Chana Boymelgreen by Rabbi Rosenfeld.
Following the presentations, Shaya was joined with many of the Yeshiva’s friends and supporters for the actual Ground Breaking ceremony. The stone was covered by Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba who came specially for this event. During the festive Dinner following the event a Video Presentation was shown about Oholei Torah and the connection with the new project of the Mikvah Tahara.
A surprise to all the viewers was when during the video when clips were shown of the actual Ground Breaking ceremony which took place just a short while before.
Rabbi Nosson Blumes, of the Hanholas Hayeshiva, who was instrumental in organizing the event, said that today we “broke Ground” in two fashions, One with the beginning of the New Community Mikvah and second with in inauguration of the Young Leadership Committee. He thanked all those young members for their generous support and looks forward to many years to come of a close and warm relationship between them and Oholei Torah.
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yahoo!
mazal tov!! wonderful news to hear!!
this is our community
nice to see shemtov & osdobo talking and to see all the big machers in CH there
i think this is where the real CH is doing great stuff for the shcunah
not like others just being in machlokos
me
wow- the dinner looked really nice. Very original.
ye
Way to go dovid!
*chavi
wow..soo beautiful.
regards to chaplan goldstein from BCPA..
nice pics :-)
SHAYA YASHER KOACH
Shaya Mazal Tov. keep up your good work. It is nice seeing
Rabbi Osdoba given the respect and Kovod he duly deserves.
Lets leave the baalai machlokos out of the picture. We live here and want the neighborhood to thrive.
viewer
wow webby! this is one photographer!
youre hired!
Photo crytic
It was a beatiful event. Unfortunately the angle of the picture makes it look like they’re digging a grave.
shalom
Shayeh we are lucky to have you, you contine helping the MOSDOS of the REBBI, the more you vill help, the more the brocho ofof the Rebbi will bentch you
me
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
to chana blumes
hey that’s your father
you should be proud of him!
Chaim
Which side of OT is the new Mikvah gonna be on? Are they taking down those houses next door? Is it on the corner of Brooklyn? How big is the Mikvah gonna be?
Bored on empire
Blumes You pulled off a great one, and Keep working with the Yung members of our community, All this helps B’ruchnius and B’gashmius!!
OT needs you
Yasher Koach
out of towner
I couldn’t make it, but just seeing the pics makes me feel apart of it.
Thanx a million Webby!
EpisShmekt
Very Nice! where was Rabbi Segal and Rabbi Raitport?
A Stoodent
Dear Rebbi (Rabbi Kaplan)
You Look So Beutifal In that New Suit That You Got For The Diner I never Saw You With A tye
Nice i Like It!
acd
how low can shemtov get to sit with asduba moshiach times
CHer
Moshe
About time mashpeim with nice ties came around…
Good luck on Sunday…
bored on empires
To epis shmekt
Please why begin, simply as follows
Rabbi Segal was out of town, and came to the actual dinner
Rabbi Raitport all know how close he is to oholei torah
rabbi schwei was at the exact time being mesader kidushin for elishevitz
why not just get e thoughts out of our mind and anjoy
Efraim D.
To "acd":
The question is how low you can get
axced
acd wrote: how low can shemtov get to sit with asduba moshiach times.
at lease he did not stand up for him.
Worried
Wow I counted close to 5 Full beards in our Young Leaders…
the new "Face" (or as the Frierdiger Rebbe was once told Panim K’Achor…) of Crown Heights
what a bright future!
on the bright side – a new Mikvah for the Yeshivah bachurim is a must. and finally the parents realize that they need to be activly involved in thier childrens Chinuch – and not just rely on the school
Berl
How could Rabbi Shemtov sit next to and touch Rabbi Osdaba? Isn’t Rabbi Osdabo in Cherem from the Agudas Harabonim (because he refused to come to a Din Torah) called by Rabbi Shemtov Himself??!!
boycotted the dinner
What an absolute disgrace that these are our "young leaders’. Shame on Oholei Torah for taxing us with having to live up to these "leaders" and demanding that our children-who we give our life for- look up to these "role models". We all know that money is everything but at least some of us are still clinging to what we believe in and boycotted the dinner. Our sincere hopes that next year there will still be more short beards for you to honor!! WHAT TO GO!!
FOR UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY
GET A LIFE BERL.
THANK G-D THIS ARTICLE WAS GREETED WITH COMMENTS THAT PRAISED THE UNITY, ACHDUS, AND RESPECT THAT THE ARTICLE AND PICTURES PORTRAYED.
ISN’T THIS WHAT WE ALL WANT RATHER THAN MORE MACHLOKES????
student
what was the point, today they stuffed the hole back up lol.
Blessings
We are proud of our leaders coming together. Blessings come to our community when there is peace. It is a lesson for all of us to live peacefully with our neighbors.
Ultimate Peace
TO axced and acd;
It seems as thought you two can’t fargin, and something is really bothering you. Rabbi Osdoba is a Rov and deserves respect, if you can’t do that then just keep negative comments away. OT groundbreaking ceremony was beautiful and R. Blumes keep up the great work!
talmid
dont forget that the guy hwo tryed to prove apoint about segal is just stupid, does he not realise segal wprks in oholei torah?
curious
who is the two guys kissing in one of the last pics?