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Zalmen and Simi Levin (Crown Heights)
Op Ed: Shidduchim is Hard Enough Already, Let’s Make it a Little Easier
Shiduchim are always difficult, and sometimes, we just make the difficult even harder. A reader realized a trend among their friends, and found two things you can do to make the shidduch process just a little easier.
Picture of the Day
As we are making our way through the first of this years two months of Adar, RebbeDrive has released two new photos from the newly restored Farbrengen of Purim 5729. Captured on Purim 1969, that Farbrengen marked the longest Purim Farbrengen throughout the Rebbe’s N’sius.
Info to be Menachem Avel the Landa Family
The Landa family will be sitting shiva for their father Harav Hachosid Harav Hatomim Avraham Tzvi Landa a”h, at 640 Montgomery St. Two minyanim will be held for Shachris at 8:30am and 9am respectively. Mincha and Maairiv will be davened bizmana.
Bushwick Chabad Vandalized over Shabbos
A window of a Brooklyn Chabad synagogue run by Rabbi Menachem Heller and his wife was broken in a suspected act of Vandalizm over Sabbath. The incident took place while the rabbi and his family, including young children, were inside.
BDE: Rabbi Moshe Ehrenstein, 68, OBM
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Moshe Ehrenstein, OBM, the head Mashpia in the Chabad Yeshiva of Tzfas. He passed away Friday, shortly after shabbos came in, on the 10th of Adar 1. He was 68-years-old.
Video of the Day
In a touching and awe inspiring video, Rabbi Isser Lubecki was filmed holding a Havdalah ceremony in sign language after a special Shabbaton that he organized for the deaf community in the French capital of Paris.
JLI: Dancing in the Daylight
A video has been released by JLI that discussed how to remain Jewish when nobody is telling you NOT to. It may seem like a silly question but why WOULD you without someone telling you to?
New Network of Jewish Sunday Schools Opens
This week, a new Jewish Sunday school has been opened in Bulgarian capital Sofia. It is already 17th school of those established as a part of the new education project called JFUTURE. JFUTURE is the Jewish Sunday school network intended, first of all, for families that did not take an active part in the community life. With over 400 participants, JFUTURE aims to double the number of students by the end of 2019.
JEM: Generation Gap, The Rebbe on the Power of Youth
The youth rebellion of the 60’s saw an explosion of counterculture movements fighting the status quo across the Western world. As many wrote off the radicalism of their children, the Rebbe embraced their passion, arguing that it all stemmed from a thirst for good.
One Year Later in Parkland, Fla.: Uniting the Community as a Force for Good
Bringing more light to the world in the year since the mass school shooting in Parkland Florida. Read how these individuals have turned tragedy into growth, and suffering into a future.
We Fought For Their Freedom, But Where Are Russian-American Jews Today?
Thirty years after the first wave of Russian Jews landed on these shores, the babushkas and fur ushankas have disappeared. But the American-born grandchildren of those immigrants still speak Russian with their parents and grandparents. They socialize with friends of Russian background and do so in Russian Jewish enclaves where the food, drink, and music reflect the tastes of their Slavic grandparents. Why do Russian-speaking Jews seem so uninterested in American Jewish life and what can we do to better engage them?
Baby Boy!
Benny and Chanale (nee Gopin) Friedman (Crown Heights)
This Weeks Shalom Zochor List
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Parshas Tetzaveh:
Baby Boy!
Schneur Zalman and Mushky (nee Andrusier) Kirsch (Crown Heights)
BDE: Harav Hachosid Harav Hatomim Avraham Tzvi Landa, 100, OBM
With great sadness we report the passing of Harav Hachosid Harav Hatomim Avraham Tzvi (ben Harav Yehudah) Landa OBM, the eldest living Chossid who survived the Second World War by escaping to Shanghai. He passed away on Friday 10 Adar 1, 5779, at 100 years old. Updated with Levaya information.
The Winners of the “Bayis Raffle” Announced
The winners of the “Bayis Raffle”: Congratulations to Dovid Monstirsky and family, from Haifa, Israel, who won six months’ rent or mortgage. Congratulations to Shcherbina Family from Chicago, IL. who won a collection of 100 Chasidus Seforim to enhance the home.
