Baby Girl!
Ashi And Etty (nee Kiel) Farkash (Crown Heights)
The Newest Shadchan: Computer Code
A few enterprising Chabadniks have come up with an innovative way to combat the “Shidduch crisis” – by harnessing the power of math to pair matches through compatibility scoring.
Trump: Iran ‘On Notice’ for Firing Missile
President Trump early Thursday echoed his national security adviser’s comments a day earlier that Iran is now formally “on notice” for firing a ballistic missile.
NJ Chabad Civil Rights Lawsuit Heads to Mediation
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the township of Toms River, NJ, by Rabbi Moshe Gourarie and the Chabad Jewish Center is headed for mediation. The lawsuit, filed in March, charges that anti-Semitic hostility and local opposition to neighboring Lakewood’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish population are the reasons why the Chabad Jewish Center has been told it needs a zoning variance to operate as a house of worship.
Meet the Newest Bearded Chaplain in the U.S. Air Force
Discussing his work with gusto in this Q&A with Chabad.org reporter Carin M. Smilk, Rabbi Levy Pekar sounds like any other young professional starting a career in full force. Pekar, 29, is training to be a U.S. Air Force chaplain, beginning what will be nearly six months of back-to-back training programs. He’s also a bearded rabbi—one of just a handful serving the U.S. armed forces—and counseling and supporting airmen, and their families, will be his mission.
Here’s My Story: The Farewell Ceremony
For over 50 years, Rabbi Zushe Posner has served as the Chabad emissary in Lod, Israel, where he was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in December of 2009.
New Engagement!
Chaim Ezra Gurevitch (Lyon, France) and Miriam Feigenson (Sugar Land, TX)
From Days Gone By: Chassidisher Farbrengen
Elder and younger Chassidim farbreng together in 770, circa mid 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Russian Jewish Pupils Compete in ‘Olympics’
An exciting extra-curricular academic challenge was launched in Jewish schools across the Former Soviet Union – the first round of Darkeinu “Olympics” 2017, an annual contest determining the champions of Jewish studies in the region. The contest, which includes three rounds and participation prizes, aims to stimulate interest in the subject and raise its prestige in countries traditionally bent on academic excellence. 2,000 pupils entered the first stage.
Op-Ed: We Need Affordable Housing
It’s time for the Crown Heights community to have a serious conversation about housing reform, says one community member in this op-ed submitted to CrownHeights.info.
Jewish Federation Awards North Carolina Shluchim
Rabbi Zalman Bluming is a man on a mission. For the past 15 years, the energetic rabbi and his wife Yehudis have welcomed students to the Rohr Chabad at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Duke University. They have housed and fed hundreds of patients and their families at Beit Chanoch, the House of Healing at Duke Medical Center. In between semesters filled with classes and rousing Shabbat meals, the rabbi leads Israelinks trips for an international roster of college students. The two also direct a thriving community for the families and researchers who call this small North Carolina city home.
New York City Police to Wear Body Cameras
New York City and its largest police union settled on a tentative five-year labor contract on Tuesday that includes salary increases while also agreeing that all patrol officers will wear body cameras by the end of 2019.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Shlomo Vishedsky, 66, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Shlomo Vishedsky, OBM, of Kfar Chabad, Israel, merely two weeks after he was informed by doctors that he had an aggressive form of Yeneh Machlah, RL. He was 66 years old.
Jewish Student Shabbaton Largest in Canada
Hundreds of Jewish college students from across Canada gathered for a one-of-a-kind Shabbat experience in Niagara on the weekend of January 27th-29th. The Chabad on Campus Canada Shabbaton provided a fully immersive Shabbat that featured world-renowned teachers and speakers, educational and entertaining workshops, a mega Shabbat dinner, and a musical, candle-lit Havdalah service at Niagara Falls.
New Engagement!
Shlomie Nathanson (Finver) (College Station, TX) and Tzippe Friedrich (Manchester, UK/Maplewood)
