At HASC’s A Time For Music 31 concert at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, Avraham Fried performed one of his all time favorite classics – Boruch Habah – and the screens lit up with some inspirational images. See the video!
Two Florida Shluchim launched a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency claiming religious discrimination after they were barred from receiving hurricane aid. One month later FEMA has reversed course and will allow religious institutions to apply for and receive federal aid for disaster recovery.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 196, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Announcement: 4th Annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest; Is It Healthy to Suppress Emotions? Does Evil Exist or Is It Only the Absence of Good? Ahavas Yisroel: How Can We Be Expected to Love Every Person? How to Deal with a Rebellious Child? The Rubashkin Phenomenon Continued; Suggestions to R’ Jacobson
Yanky and Chanshy (nee Dubov) Majesky (Orlando, FL)
JLI presents its unique two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from a timely tale. Here is this week’s video.
Tzvi and Raizel Seliger (Pittsburgh, PA)
Some 90 young Shluchos from the west coast enjoyed an eight day winter camp in the Verdugo Mountains of Glendale, California. The program was full of fun and friendship in a chassidishe atmosphere, and for many this opportunity is quite rare, and is something that many other Jewish children take for granted.
A major rally with over 750 students from Oholei Torah’s grades 2 to 8, was held today honoring Chof Teves, The Rambams Yarzeit, and the 19th of Teves which marks the birthday of Oholei Torah.
With frigid temperatures gripping New York City, the NYPD’s 71st Precinct has been targeting law abiding residents for ‘remote-starting’ their cars, slapping them with criminal summonses that carry fines as high as $250 and require appearance in criminal court.
Alternate Side Parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday through Wednesday, January 8-10 for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Yechiel and Ita (nee Friedman) Cagen (Crown Heights)
Shmuli and Mushka Rochel (nee Zaltzman) Graj (Crown Heights)
Erev Shabbos, amidst the hectic preparations, Bentzy and Chaya Chesny‘s daughter choked on piece frozen mango and stopped breathing. The efforts of the Hatzalah Volunteers saved their daughter life. Their story was featured at Hatzalah’s Motzai Shabbos Melava Malka and health symposium.
When people discovered a car window left open during last weeks ‘cyclone bomb’, they saw the havoc it wrecked on the vehicles interior, so they took action and saved it from further harm.
Yisrolik and Moussia (nee Kievman) Mochkin (New Haven, CT)
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