At their annual gala diner, Oholei Torah honored Hershey and Raisy Friedman of Montreal, Canada. A video presentation at the dinner highlighted their connection to Chabad and their contributions to ensuring supply of Lubavitch Shchita poultry and meat.
Two 12-year-old boys were arrested earlier this morning after they accosted an 8-year-old Jewish boy and snatched his Yarmulka off his head and fled while laughing at the boy.
The proud parents and grandparents of the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva Pre-1A gathered to celebrate the Talmidim’s Siddur party.
The entire board of directors of Crown Heights’s largest boys school – Oholei Torah, posed for a group photo on the steps of the school at the annual gala dinner benefiting the school.
A brand new Sefer Torah was completed by the Itkin family on Sunday afternoon. The Torah was dedicated in memory of their parents, R’ Meir and Sima Chasia Itkin OBM as well as their brothers R’ Chaim Shneur Zalman and Menachem Mendel Itkin OBM.
With summer vacation just over a week away, camp is set to begin and the head staff at Gan Israel of Parksville, New York is getting ready for a #legendary summer!
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 215, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Recite a Maamar Chassidus When Most People Don’t Understand? What Is the Difference Between a Sicha and a Maamar? Is Our Yeshiva System Based on the Rebbe’s Guidelines? If So, What Can We Do If It Isn’t Working for Many of Our Students? Why Did the Rebbe Not Intervene to Improve Our Yeshiva System? How Can One Be Despicable in the Name of Torah?
Gedaliah and Shevy (nee Backman) Lowenstein (Philadelphia, PA)
In those years, a yechidus before one’s Chassunah was for just a few minutes. Together to their pa”n (pidyon nefesh – request for brochos), the Chosson would give the Rebbe an invitation and the Rebbe would quite often ask him a few questions about the preparations to the chassunah.
Motti and Mushkie (nee Kreiman) Ifergan (London, England)
Boys of Oholei Torah learned thousands of mishayos, perakim of tanya, blatt gemorah and yedios kloliyois by heart and were awarded in a grand ceremony.
As it is our custom to say Pirkei Avos from Shavuos until Rosh Hashana – in addition to the general custom of saying it from Pesach until Shavuos – we present a letter in which the Rebbe makes a brief point about the introduction which we say before Pirkei Avos: Kol Yisroel yesh lohem cheilek… It is a letter in answer to one who is not religious, asking if it is proper for her to read the Tanya. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe giving a child a coin to give to Tzedakah.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Binyomin Kriegsman, who grew up in crown crown heights, and is currently in Kolel pursuing rabbinical studies, will lead a discussion on the topic of Chodosh and Yoshon: The Waiting Periods Between Meat and Dairy.
The Friedman family completed a brand new Sefer Torah in memory of their parents, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe and Miriam Tzimmel Friedman.
Shimon and Devorah (nee Weiss) Gorkin (Charlotte, NC)
