by: Rabbi Naftali Estulin Click Here for a PDF version of this edition of Here’s My Story, or visit the My Encounter Blog. I was born in Russia right after World War Two ended. It was very hard being Jewish under the […]
Officer Dan Mead woke up on Saturday, October 27, and put on his uniform, as he does every morning. He checked in at the station-house and began his shift patrolling the streets of Pittsburgh with his partner, as he does every morning. Hours later, their routine descended into chaos.
We present a video release by JEM on the topic of Security and Solidarity. The excerpts are from a talk by the Rebbe following the raid on Entebbe to free hostages taken during the hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv in the summer of 1976.
Thousands of Shluchim from around the world have begun making them way to Crown Heights, Brooklyn for the annual International Conference of Shluchim in which they spend time learning and educating themselves in ways to expand and increase their effectiveness on Shlichus. The conference kicked off with registration and visits to 770, the Rebbes Room and home.
Four years ago at the kinus hashluchim, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky pledged 200 new shluchim to cater to the young adult generation. Shortly after, the Meromim foundation sponsored 50 new teen shluchim.
Duvy Burston of Orange County, currently a high school student at Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh, released an original song in response to the Synagogue massacre that took place under a mile from his yeshiva.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Thursday, November 1, 2018 for All Saints Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Avi and Tzippy (Winterfeld) Goldstein (Kingston, Rhode Island)
In a glamorous wedding, Mendy Erentroi of Ukraine, married Chanie Azimov daughter of head Shliach of Paris, Paris Rabbi Mendel Azimov. The wedding was hosted at Bais Chaya Mushka of Paris, and was well attended by friends, family, and elite of the community.
Thirty five miles north of Charlotte, suburban Lake Norman, named as one of “the best places in North Carolina to bring up a family,” is a fast-growing area that now features a Chabad center for the area’s Jewish families. In late September, as Hurricane Florence made landfall, Rabbi Chaim and Chaya Greenberg with their baby, Rivka, opened the doors of Chabad of Lake Norman.
Sruli and Goldy Edelman
With Shluchim already beginning to arrive for the International Kinus Hashluchim, the final touches are being put in place for the Kinus. Follow the entire Kinus here on crownheights.info through daily photo galleries and live streams.
The Brunoy yeshiva, one of the most prestigious schools in Lubavitch, hosted a Farbrengen for Chof Cheshvan.
Singer Mendi Jerufi has released a new single, “B’shuvi.” He composed the song together with Danny Avidani.
The community is invited to join in the celebration of the completion of a Sefer Torah L’Iluy Nishmas Hachayol Shmuel Sarfati A”H. Shmuel, a young Shliach, was killed in a car accident while doing Mivtzah Daled Minim two years ago on the first day of Sukkos.
Following an unprecedented week of violence in Crown Heights, Shomrim of Crown Heights has put out a Security Safety Alert for the members of the community.
In what is being investigated as a possible hate crime, a Jewish man was assaulted by three teenagers he stopped from vandalizing a construction site. All three teenagers were apprehended by the police.
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