Alert: Kids’ Canvas Ugg Shoes Contain Shatnez
A popular style of canvas shoes for children, manufactured by Ugg, was discovered to contain Shatnez.
A popular style of canvas shoes for children, manufactured by Ugg, was discovered to contain Shatnez.
Shuki and Chani (nee Lifshitz) Horowitz (Beitar Illit)
Crown Heights Girls’ School Bnos Menachem sent out a letter yesterday to all parents informing them of new standards of modesty it expects all its students’ mothers to adhere to over the coming school year.
With immense pain and deep sadness we inform you of the passing of Chaya Hadar Jerufi OBM, a young girl who galvanized thousands to do good deeds and pray for her recovery, has passed away at the young age of 8 years old.
“Let Me Be” is Jewish singing star Gershon Veroba’s protest against a world media that is biased against the Jewish people. It reminds the world that we are wasting time and lives, reiterates our unbreakable connection with Jerusalem and simply says “enough is enough.”
Passersby may not have noticed the mobile home parked in Nowra, Australia, last Thursday, but they certainly would have detected the Brooklyn accents of Rabbi Zalmy Goldberg and his wife Chaya.
Eli and Shaina Olidort (Jerusalem, Israel)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 165, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should We Allow Our Young Boys to Go to the Mikveh? What Does Chassidus Say About Self-Affliction? How Should Families Deal with a Relative Who Intermarried? Is it Healthy for Parents to Need Validation from Children?
Mordechai Wilhelm (S. Paul, MN) and Ceita Marosow (Montreal, Canada)
Shmuli Heidingsfeld (Melbourne/LA) and Nechama Kravitsky (Crown Heights)
Yaakov and Rivki Greenberg (Long Branch, NJ)
On the last day of the school year for Solon Chabad’s Hebrew school in the greater Cleveland area, students started setting up exhibit tables to show off the work the students put into creating eight replicas of synagogues from around the world.
When Rabbi Yossie Shemtov turned 60, community members didn’t give him a tie or a gift certificate. Instead, nearly 60 men surprised him on his Hebrew birthday, each one wearing tefillin.
Tzvi Aron, the brother of Levi Aron, who kidnapped and dismembered a lost 8-year-old boy in Borough Park in 2011, has been found dead in the same Brooklyn home where detectives uncovered the gruesome remains of Leiby Kletzky nearly six years ago.
Terrorism struck the United Kingdom once again tonight, after a vehicle mowed down pedestrians on the London Bridge before the occupants got out and began stabbing patrons at nearby bars and restaurants.
Simha Hamburger (Israel/Mexico) and Devora Leah (bas Eli) Goldin (Crown Heights)
Moishe (ben R’ Mordechai OBM) Goldin (Crown Heights) and Mushki Hami (Monsey, NY)