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Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Coalition Leaders Vote to Dissolve Knesset, Go to Elections
Coalition leaders voted unanimously Monday afternoon to dissolve the Knesset and go to early elections this coming spring, a Likud spokesperson said.
BDE: Rabbi Yakov Shlomo Goldberg, 77, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Goldberg OBM, a member of Anash in Crown Heights. He was 77 years old.
Crown Heights Launches Kosher Lodging and Bnbs all Over the World (Ad)
There is a Kosher version of lots of things but have you ever heard of a Kosher version of Airbnb? CHRENTAL.COM is just that! Created by a few Crown Heights entrepreneurs to fill the needs of a kosher family or individual travelling the globe to have the option to stay at a kosher home.
8:00pm: How Would the Rebbe Approach the Current Issue of Government Trying to Change Our Education System?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 241, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Would the Rebbe Approach the Current Issue of Government Trying to Change Our Education System? How Can We Want to Emulate Yaakov Avinu’s Troubling Life? Is It Appropriate to Sing Niggunim in the Restroom? Is It Proper for a Chosid to Use a Fitbit to Track His Exercise Accomplishments? Questions About G-d
Video of the Day
The newest fad has hit the streets of Crown Heights, and yes, it’s time to introduce pole thefts. A man can be seen on video walking up to a home in Crown Heights and removing the apparatus connecting a metal pole to a short gate. After just a few seconds, he walks off with his prize.
2,000-year-old ring Discovered in Jerusalem’s City of David
A two-thousand-year-old ring, with a solitaire gem stone, was uncovered in archaeological excavations in the City of David National Park in Jerusalem. The ring was found at the bottom of a ritual bath on the pilgrimage path.
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Zalmy and Sarale (nee Junik) Cohen (Crown heights)
Raskin Family to Dedicate Torah
The Pearson, Rubin, Klein, and Raskin families would like extend an invitation to the entire community to attend a Siyum Sefer Torah, dedicated in memory of their father and grandfather the legendary chossid, Rabbi Dovid Raskin.
Shutdown 2018: Government Shuts Down Over Border Wall
A partial federal shutdown was expected to drag into the December 25th holiday as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders remained stuck in a standoff over his border wall with Mexico with no breakthrough Saturday.
Watch: Trump Signs Prison Reform Bill
The White House has released video of the much lauded prison reform bill advocated by many members of the Jewish community. The bill received sweeping majorities in both the House and Senate on the way to the Presidents desk.
Last Fighter from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Passes Away
Simcha Rotem, the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Jewish partisans against the Nazis died on Saturday in Israel at the age of 94. Rotem survived by masterminding an escape through the drain system with dozens of comrades.
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This Weeks Shalom Zochor List
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Vayechi.
JEM: The Rebbe on Prison Reform
With the United States Congress passing a landmark bill on prison reform, we share this video in which the Rebbe addresses the most obvious and fundamental question that’s at stake: What’s the point of Prison?
Watch: IDF Blows up Hezbollah Tunnel
The IDF detonated one of the terror tunnels it uncovered snaking under its border with Lebanon. The tunnel began in the Lebanese village of Ramye and penetrated dozens of meters into Israel.
Weekly Story: Help Yourself
As is known to many of our readers, Rabbi Nissen Mangel sheyichye is one of the youngest survivors of the German concentration camps. He was incarcerated in 1944, when he was just ten years old, and was liberated a year later, when he was eleven. Last week at a farbrengen in his shul, he connected the following episode of his life, that took place during the Death March, to the parshah.
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Shaya and Miriam Gutleizer (Miami, Fl)
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