Crown Heights Photojournalist Yanky Ascher visited the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Rebbe Rashab lived in the final years of his life, and photographed and heard the stories of some of the fascinating people who make up the local Jewish community.
Sabra is voluntarily recalling some hummus products and spreads because of possible Listeria contamination, the FDA announced. Consumers are urged to discard any product with a “Best Before” date through January 23, 2017, which an be found on the lid of each package.
Yitzi and Leah (nee Schapiro) Spalter (Crown Heights)
Pesach and Bracha (nee Sitrin) Zirkind (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Mushky (nee Golomb) Kirsh (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 138, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What is the Yardstick of Success? What Did the Rebbe Say About Thanksgiving? Can We Refine Today’s Progressive Left? Is it Acceptable to Be into Fashion? Is Moach Shalet Al Halev Compatible with a Mental Disorder? Moshiach Doesn’t Excite My Child!
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Elimelech Zwiebel OBM, the much beloved Mashpia in the Chabad Yeshiva in Morristown, New Jersey and one of the leading Chabad scholars. He was 75 years old. Levaya will take place Monday
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Ben Zion Shenker OBM, the famed composer and singer of many songs and Niggunim. He was 92 years old.
Do you have strong feelings about where Citi Bike should expand in the neighborhood? You’ve got another chance to tell the city about it.
The MTA is considering a proposal that would raise fares and tolls system-wide in 2017. Under the plan, subway fares would rise to $3 per ride, while weekly MetroCards would rise to $32 and a monthly pass would cost $121.
Peretz (ben Mendy) Mockin (Montreal, Canada) and Rivkie (bas Avremel) Lokshin (Crown Heights)
Leaders of Lithuania’s small and fractious Jewish community hired security guards to prevent a local Chabad rabbi and his supporters from attending synagogue in Vilnius (Vilna).
In 1988, during the Shiva for Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, Rabbi Simcha Elberg visited the Rebbe to be Menachem Avel. Rabbi Elberg served as the chairman on the executive board of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, and on the executive committee of Agudath Israel of America.
Reb Berel replied, “If the Rebbe instructs me to jump off the roof, I will do so. However, if the Rebbe instructs me to jump from the ground on to the roof, as much as I would like to fulfill the Rebbe’s desire, it is an impossibility and can’t be done.”
“It has come to our attention that our Chulent Mix date code # 091218 as well as #090518 and # 090522 has been found to have some instances of infestation,” wrote an executive of the Kedem company, which markets foods under the Gefen brand.
A slew of google users, including one vocal Lubavitcher, were cut off from all their Google accounts as “punishment” for reselling a Pixel phone, which violates Google’s policies, reports the Associated Press.
The family of 4-year-old Dinush Rivkin, who has suffered since birth from a rare condition called Esophageal Atresia, happily accepts a check for over one and a half million Shekels that was raised from generous donors all over the world, which will help pay for specialized surgery that may cure her at a hospital in the United States.
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