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.
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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
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.
Rabbi Mendy Korer (l) with Samuel Lyons (r) after the bar mitzvah boy laid tefillin.
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)
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, left, former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel and current chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, speaks to the newly ordained rabbis at the Rabbinical College of America in 2012. Photo: Chaim Perl.
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.
A Glimpse into Azerbaijan’s Hidden All-Jewish Town
Even as its future is uncertain, the unique community of ‘Mountain Jews’ of Krasnaya Sloboda, a town in Muslim Azerbaijan, is experiencing a religious revival thanks to Chabad.
Alan Weinkrantz, a public-relations maven and consultant for tech start-ups, died last week when a car crashed into a Tel Aviv restaurant. Photo: Nadav Reis.
Startup Pioneer Killed in Tel Aviv Was a Friend to All
Three people in Tel Aviv were killed and two injured last Saturday night when a driver from Ra’anana, in central Israel, lost control of his car and careened into a street-side restaurant. The accident, likely due to a heart attack, wound up killing the car’s driver, as well as Menashe Raz of Ashdod, who was standing on the sidewalk; and Alan Weinkrantz, 63, a public-relations maven and consultant for tech start-ups.
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