New Engagement!
Mendy Rubenstein (Crown Heights) and Chanchy Kinn (Manchester, UK)
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Baby Boy!
Avigdor and Devory Zeitlin (Crown Heights)
Again: Bomb Threats to Jewish Centers in 11 States
Once again, multiple Jewish centers and schools were evacuated on Monday morning after receiving bomb threats.
Music Video: Ki B’simcha Seitzei’u
In celebration of Purim 2017 and the joyous month of Adar, singer Dudi Knopfler presents this foot-happy, fast-paced dance song composed by contemporary hitmaker Boruch Sholom Blesofsky.
Swastikas Keyed into Cars in Miami Beach
Police are investigating after swastikas were found keyed into multiple cars in Miami Beach’s Orthodox-Jewish neighborhood. Rabbi Mendy Levi, a Chabad Shliach who lives next to one of the home’s where a car was vandalized, told Channel 7 News that this and other recent anti-Semitic acts around the country worry him.
Picture of the Day: Tanya on the Bus
Last Sunday, the girls In the Pioneer Division of Kinus Tzeiri Hashluchos were treated to a trip to Dave & Busters Arcade. On the way, a chaperone captured a photo that made her very proud: the girls – on their own initiative – had an impromptu Tanya study circle.
Benny Launches New Video Travel Blog
“Since the day I started traveling for music work and visiting Jewish communities around the world, it’s been my dream to share the wonder of it all with you,” says Jewish music star Benny Friedman, introducing his new video series Benny Baderech. “Worldwide Yiddishkeit is a marvelous blend of languages, cultures, cuisines and incredible, delightful people.”
New Engagement!
Mendy (ben Yitzchak) Pruss (Crown Heights) and Chanale Golomb (Crown Heights)
Abrahams Family Dedicates Torah in Mother’s Memory
A brand new Sefer Torah was completed and dedicated in the memory of Mrs. Faige Abrahams OBM by her family. The new Torah will be housed in the Lincoln Shteibel, many of whom were on hand for the celebration.
Israeli MK Sofa Landver Visits the Ohel
Earlier today Israeli Knesset Member Sofa Landver, member of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and Minister of Immigrant Absorption, visited The Ohel during a trip to the United States.
8:00pm: What Defines Normalcy?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 152, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines Normalcy? What Can Be Learned from the Unusually Warm Weather This February? Was Moshe Rabbeinu Focused More on His Community Than on His Family? Is Tanya Directed More to Men Than to Women?
Jewish Cemetery Vandalized in Philadelphia
Just one week after news of a shocking vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in S. Louis surfaced, another such incident occurred and this time in a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery where dozens of headstones were knocked over.
New Engagement!
Boruch Levitin (Crown Heights) and Liba Goldwasser (Pittsburgh, PA)
New Engagement!
Sendy (ben R’ Menachem Mendel OBM) Labkowsky (Los Angeles, CA) and Mali (bas Avrohom) New (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Folik and Shaina (nee Hirsch) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Lior and Tova (nee Rosenstein) Shkedi (Pittsburgh, PA)
Mayor De Blasio Questioned By Prosecutors
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived to meet with federal prosecutors on Friday morning as part of their lengthy investigation into whether people involved in fundraising for his election campaign broke corruption laws, according to news reports.
