Baby Girl!
Mendy and Brocha (nee Serebryanski) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
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Weekly Letter: Bris Milah for the Health Benefits?
This week, as we read about the first Bris in Parshas Lech Lecha, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he remarks on presenting mitzvos such as bris milah and others “as prescriptions for good health or hygiene.” The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
From Days Gone By: Greeting the President
President Lyndon B. Johnson is welcomed to Worcester, MA, by students of the Lubavitch school in June of 1964, during his campaign for re-election. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Ukraine Shluchim Reach for the Stars in Dnepr
The coordinators, leaders and educators of the ‘Stars’ program for Jewish youth in Ukraine gathered in the city of Dnepropetrovsk last week to discuss the program’s development goals for the coming year.
Baby Boy!
Eli and Dinie Perman (Crown Heights)
Next Generation of Bluegrass Rabbis Comes of Age in Kentucky
Much has changed in the last three decades for the Jewish community in Kentucky, as the Litvin family has spread their roots in a community they are proud to call home. Even after all this time, new developments are in the works. Take, for instance, a Jewish Learning Center that opens this week, which under its wide umbrella will offer adult-education classes throughout the year for working professionals, parents, retirees—for anyone who wants to further their Jewish knowledge.
New Engagement!
Mendy Neparstek (Los Angeles, CA) and Mushky Goldshmid (Crown Heights)
Video: I Have Ulcerative Colitis, Let’s Talk
Comedian Mendy Pellin engages in some bathroom talk to reveal a little-known condition he has called Ulcerative Colitis. He invites the community to an event he will headline later this month in Crown Heights, which he hopes will raise awareness of this condition among members of the Orthodox-Jewish community.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Friday, November 11, for Veterans Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Picture of the Day: Sinai Scholars
Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of Chabad on Campus at George Washington University, delivers a lesson to dozens of students titled “Love Matters” as part of the Sinai Scholars project. Rabbi Steiner and many of these students, along with hundreds of others from all over the country, will be arriving in Crown Heights tonight and tomorrow for the annual ‘JewFest’ Chabad on Campus Shabbaton.
Video: Who Stole the Tefilin?
A Chosid in Williamsburg recently arrived in Shul one morning to find that his Tefilin had gone missing. Suspecting that they may have been stolen, he obtained the footage from the Shul’s surveillance camera, and was surprised to discover the culprit.
Law Enforcement Preps for Kinus Hashluchim
With the International Kinus Hashluchim just two weeks away, members of the Vaad HaKinus got together with representatives of various city law enforcement agencies in order to coordinate security arrangements for conference, which is set to bring some 5,000 people to Crown Heights.
Here’s My Story: Beautiful on the Inside
Mrs. Susan Shuster and her husband, Dr. Marvin Shuster, reside in Bal Harbour, Florida, where she was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in March of 2011.
New Engagement!
Levi Marlow (North Miami Beach, FL) and Mushka Gorowitz (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Teen Who ‘Could Barely Walk’ Preps for Marathon
Imagine being 13 years old, in eighth grade, and every step you took brought intense pain. That was Nathan Bojan’s life. A trip to an orthopedist and the Bojans had an answer: Nathan had a condition called Tarsal Coalition—the abnormal connection of two bones in the foot. Where people normally have tissue between bone, Nathan had none. Each step was agony.
New Engagement!
Elchonon Chaikin (Cleveland, OH) and Mussie (bas R’ Gavriel) Schapiro (Crown Heights)
Op-Ed: Chabad Gave Me My Jewish Confidence
Before enrolling at U.C. Santa Cruz, Amanda Botfeld, a Reform Jew from Santa Monica, had never heard of Chabad. “I avoided Jewish spaces in part because I never felt like my level of Jewishness was ‘enough.’ Jewish community events are often intended to reaffirm your standing as an insider; I usually left feeling more like an outsider,” she wrote in an op-ed published by JWeekly. “But Chabad was different.”
