The Chabad Hebrew Academy of San Diego, CA, led by Rabbi Yosef Fradkin, switched over to solar energy for all their electrical needs last March and declared “energy independence.” Now they are seeing savings of $169,000 each year, reports the S. Diego Jewish Journal.
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A large group of enthusiastic Jewish students from Odessa, Ukraine, visited Israel on a Taglit Birthright trip last week.
Most parents drop their children off at preschool and then move on with their day. At this northern Manhattan school, the parents follow their kids right through the front door.
Mendy and Chaya Sara Blachman (Edmonton, Canada)
Dovid and Binie Holtzberg (Crown Heights)
There’s a lot that needs to get done every day at Junior Gan Israel Day Camp in Skokie, Ill. A staff member needs to stand at the entrance of a camp building, and open the door for campers and parents as they arrive each morning. There are towels that need folding—a big job because the camp, rather than wasting paper towels, uses lots of hand towels in an effort to be green, according to director Zeesy Posner. And there are paintbrushes that need washing.
In this shocking video, a Palestinian father can be seen telling his young son to throw rocks at heavily armed IDF soldiers. The father yells at the soldiers to shoot the child so that it could be captured on video. Watch how the soldiers respond instead.
Beloved Crown Heights personality ‘Charlie Buttons’ is unfortunately in the hospital due to health complications, and his brother requested that Tehillim be recited on his behalf. His name is Tzaddik haLevi ben Masha Ruchel.
There are a few different camps for boys, of different ages and levels, going on in Moscow this summer. The camps were initiated by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, in order to enhance the pure Yiddishe chinuch of Jewish children in Moscow and in all of Russia.
In anticipation of their upcoming Merkos Shlichus assignment, 275 Bochurim gathered at the Jewish Children’s Muesum for an intensive instructional seminar. They are preparing to be dispatched to tens of cities around the world, where they will bring much needed Jewish resources and inspiration to local Jewish communities.
Visiting day in Yeshivas Kayitz Kingston was much more than merely a day when parents drove up to see their sons.
Yanki and Esty (nee Lasker) Jacobs (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Mendy Baitelman (Richmond, BC / LA) and Leah Rosenberg (Montreal, Canada)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 125, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: ‘Wasting Time’ in Yeshiva vs. Secular Education and a Job? The 9 Days: Why Do We Grieve Till This Day? Are There Modern Day Miracles? I Still Can’t Master Bitachon!
Close to 200 teens from across Israel took part in the first CTeen Israeli Shabbaton this past Shabbos.
13 buses pulled into Camp Gan Yisroel-Montreal late Thursday night, returning lots of happy, tired campers and staff after an amazing trip to Six-Flags La Ronde amusement park. In the words of one camper, “it was our best trip ever!”
With great shock and sadness we inform you of the very untimely passing of Mrs. Chaya Mushka (nee Berkes) Stiefelmann OBM, a young Shlucha in Brazil. She was 28 years old.
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