Baby Boy!
Levi and Mushky (nee Krasnianski) Chayo (Montreal, Canada)
Baby Girl!
Shmulik and Chaya (nee Levin) Gurary (Baltimore, MD)
Alaska Chabad Center Evacuated Due to Bomb Threat
The Chabad Jewish community center of Anchorage, Alaska, was evacuated Monday afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.
Tuition-Free Day School?
Tirtza Ben David drives two hours a day to take her two young daughters, Moriyah, 4, and Chana, 2, to the Lubavitch Cheder Day School in St. Paul, Minn. It’s a small school, she says, where each child gets personalized attention and the chance to learn in ways that best suit their needs.
Does the NYC Sanitation have Ticket Quotas?
An investigation by ABC7’s Jim Hoffer uncovers what is believed to be ticket quotas being enforced against enforcement officers in New York City’s Department of Sanitation, leading resident and business owners to complain about bogus tickets.
Bnos Menachem Aims to Raise $500,000
Bnos Menachem, a Crown Heights based girls school, has launched a “Our Girls, Our Gift” campaign aiming to raise $500,000 to help further their goal of educating children. For one day only all contributions will be mated dollar-for-dollar.
Motzei Shabbos: G’mach to Host Melave Malka
The committee of Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib, a G’mach that benefits many Crown Heights families, is inviting the community to participate in its annual Melave Malka, which will take place this Motzei Shabbos Parashas Trumah at Beis Rivkah-Crown St.
Reader Shares Photo Believed to be of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info has received a photograph, believed to have never been seen before and apparently taken right before the Rebbe assumed the Nesius, crossing the street near President Street and New York Avenue.
Photos: Adar Dancing in Montreal Zal
Bochurim studying in Lubavitch Yeshiva Zal in Montreal, Canada kicked off the month of Adar – which is synonymous with Simcha – with a lively Adar dancing and music session on Motzai Shabbos.
Baby Boy!
Yankel and Chaya Mushka (nee Katzman) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Torah Campaign Highlights Rabbi Gordon’s 1st Yahrtzeit
Shabbos Chof-Tes Teves marked the first Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yehoshua Binyomin Gordon OBM. Hundreds turned out in person and thousands more tuned in online live via Chabad.org to participate in a special commemoration event that rounded off an inspirational weekend, which included the participation of Rabbi Gordon’s family, siblings from across the world, Shluchim of the Valley and beyond, and the Los Angeles community at large.
From Days Gone By: Kfar Chabad, 1950s
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present this photo taken in Kfar Chabad, circa mid 1950s. Can you identify those in the photo, or where it was taken?
New Engagement!
Zalmy Popack (Denver, CO) and Rivkah Leah Cylich (Melbourne, Australia)
‘Yeshivacation’ Inspires Former USSR Jewish Youth
In the beginning of the month, Yahad, the FJC’s special programs platform directed by Rabbi Mendy Wilansky, conducted two unique seminars for young Jewish adults from the former USSR that opened to them the world of Jewish learning like they’ve never seen before.
Baby Boy!
Levi and Ruchama Baum (Crown Heights)
The Jewish Neo-Nazi and the Chabad Rabbi
Csanád Szegedi grew up in a mildly racist milieu in Miskolc, a midsized town in northeastern Hungary. His father was the scion of an old noble family of Magyars, a point of pride for the young Szegedi, who was born in 1982 and came of age in the chaotic years following the fall of the Soviet-influenced Hungarian People’s Republic.
US Senator Reiterates Request for Russia to Return Library
Yesterday, six Chabad Shluchim met with United States Senator Orrin Hatch in his current office in order to discuss the efforts to return the “Schneerson Library” from Russia.
