New Engagement!
Zemach (ben Stewart) Diament (Montreal, Canada) and Batya (bas Moshe Chaim) Cohen (Crown Heights)
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Guardian Angels Founder Slams NYPD-Jewish Ties
Guardian Angels founder and popular radio host Curtis Sliwa minced no words on his WABC Drive at Five radio program on Thursday afternoon, taking direct aim at the NYPD’s Jewish liaisons and challenging police to reevaluate its coveted chaplaincy positions.
Shabbos at the Besht: Cooking with Solar Heat on Shabbos
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Lerner, Rosh Kollel of 770 Montgomery, will lead a discussion on the topic – Bishul on shabbos: Cooking with solar heat.
Rabbi Heller: Crown Heights Eruv Is Reform Judaism
In a follow-up Shiur on the Crown Heights Eruv delivered on Thursday, Rosh Kollel Rabbi Yosef Heller doubled down on his previous comments lambasting the Eruv and those who use it, saying it is akin to Reform Judaism. The Shiur coincided with the release of a Halachic ruling from the Crown Heights Beis Din prohibiting the use of the Eruv.
UK Votes to Leave EU; Prime Minister to Resign
The UK has had its say, voting 52% to 48% to leave the European Union after 43 years.
Weekly Story: It Cannot Be Brought to the Table
Turning to the Tzemach Tzedek, the man said, “Rebbe, I promise you this whiskey was made this year exactly as I made it in previous years. There is no possibility of chometz in it. The Rebbe’s family can accept it, just as he allowed them to accept it in previous years.”
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a Maamar at a Farbrengen in 1970.
Baby Boy!
Aaron and Miriam Cohen (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Avremy and Mushka (nee Hecht) Scheinfeld (Crown Heights)
Weekly Letter: Using Gimatria
This week we present a letter from the Rebbe to an individual who suggested the use of ‘Gimatria’ for the Rebbe’s mitzvah campaigns. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Bais Chaya Mushka of LA Hosts Torah-thon
The Torah-thon is an annual, meaningful, event hosted by the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School of Los Angeles, honoring all of the 5th Grade students and their mothers. This year, there were over 65 women in attendance.
85-Year-Old Finally Makes Up for Missing Big Day
East London resident Samuel Lyons proves it’s never too late to have your bar mitzvah, after Hitler’s bombs cancelled his first attempt.
Airline Drops Photographer’s $20,000 Camera Kit
Imagine getting off a flight, walking over to get your (unwillingly) gate-checked case full of $20K of camera gear, and seeing a baggage handler walking up holding a few lenses and yelling “whose are these?” That’s exactly what happen to Crown Heights photographer Yosef Shidler of CJ Studios.
‘Jewish Republic’ in Siberia Revived by New Torah
The Jewish community of Birobidzhan, an ‘Autonomous Jewish Republic’ set up by Stalin in the Russian Far-East, received a gift of a new Torah scroll from an anonymous American sponsor last week.
New Engagement!
Levi Yitzchak Simon (Crown Heights) and Devorah (bas R’ Mordechai) Engel (Melbourne, Australia)
New Engagement!
Levi Goodman (Ashdod, Israel) and Soniya Chefer (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
257 New Rabbis to Be Ordained in Morristown
The sun will surely smile down on Sunday when 257 newly ordained rabbis will gather in the Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical College of America, outside of Morristown, N.J., for what is possibly the largest celebration of its kind.
