Call it the mitzvah-multiplier effect. Over the course of the past decade, the Florida-based, Chabad-affiliated Aleph Institute has sent thousands of Chanukah gifts to children whose parents were in the military or serving time in prison. Now, it is looking to get many others into the giving spirit as well.
Hundreds of outraged Flatbush residents rallied on Sunday to “Save Ocean Parkway,” after plans were unveiled by the NYC Dept. of Transportation to eliminate right and left turns off the main roadway, requiring cars to exit onto the service lane a block beforehand if they wish to make a turn.
Professor David Kaufmann has been overcoming cancer for over two years. After undergoing a perilous surgery in Texas, he arrived back in New Orleans with his family, finally ready to return home and settle down to a semblance of normalcy. Unfortunately, a nasty surprise awaited them when they walked through the door.
As the summer heat bears down on Australia, a small group of Chabad Bochurim are canvassing RARA (Regional and Rural Australia) in a Mitzvah Mobile, searching for Jewish souls and bringing them the light of Chanukah. Just two weeks into their journey, these ‘roving rabbis’ have already touched hundreds of Jewish souls.
A joyous celebration took place in the Chabad Shul in Paris on Sunday, as members of the community welcomed a new Sefer Torah to their midst.
The singing puppets known as the ‘Bube Myses’ took over a Chabad Tefilin stand in Israel for their latest music video – ‘Wrap Tefilin.’
Levi Mockin (Montreal, Canada) and Rochel Leah (bas Schneur) Minsky (Crown Heights)
Mendy Jaffe (Saint Paul, MN) and Gili Antian (Brooklyn, NY)
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya (nee Bogart) Elisha (Crown Heights)
Yosef Katsev (Morristown, NJ) and Leah Karasik (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 140, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Do We Need to Be Politically Correct and Avoid Controversial Issues? Should We Take Dreams Seriously? What Defines a Mashpia? How Can We Disagree Civilly? Why is Prayer the Primary Service in Our Times? How Are Today’s Religious Hostilities Preparing Us for Moshiach?
In Maariv tonight, the 5th of Kislev, we begin saying Vesein Tal Umotor Livrocho in Shmoneh Esrei. A guide including some of the Halochos regarding this change, and if one had forgotten to make it, was compiled by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia.
Shmaya and Chani (nee Rabkin) Futerfas (Crown Heights)
A brutal Crown Heights mugger who robbed and shot at one Jewish man, shot a teenaged girl three times at pointblank range when she said she didn’t have any money, and attempted to rob a third woman – all in the vicinity of Kingston Avenue and Maple Street in February of 2015 – was sentenced to 55 years to life in prison for the crimes.
Yonah Elimelech Zilberstrom (Jerusalem, Israel) and Esther Malka Katan (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
A years-long dispute between two Chabad organizations over whose public Menorah claims the distinction as the world’s largest has ended up in front of the Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch, which issued a definitive ruling yesterday.
