New Engagement!
Mendel (ben Shlomo) Galperin (Crown Heights) and Chyena Gansburg (Coconut Creek, FL)
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Pretoria Smichah Students Enjoy Safari Trip
At Yeshiva LeRabbonus Pretoria, the South Africa smichah program under Rabbi Gidon Fox, students have recently finished an amazing zman that included relevant classes in chasidus by Rabbi Yosef Kesselman and Shulchan Oruch Yoreh Deah with real life application by Rabbi Chaim Finkelstein, the Rosh Yeshiva.
Alternate Side and Meter Rules Suspended Monday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day.
Picture of the Day: A Challah for #1
On Friday, May 27, Mr. Harry Triguboff was officially named the richest man in Australia by the Business Review Weekly. As he does every Friday, Rabbi Dovid Slavin, director of Our Big Kitchen, visited Mr. Triguboff in his Sydney office to deliver fresh Challah for Shabbos. This week, however, the Challah was braided in a unique shape to celebrate the occasion.
8-Year-Old Brings Gun to Crown Heights School
On Friday morning, an 8-year-old student of The Albany Avenue School (P.S. 91) in Crown Heights, which is located across the street from Lefferts Park, brought a loaded handgun to school, prompting an emergency police response.
Rabbi Benny’s Hilarious Torah Thought: The One With the Yiddish Speaker
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Behar. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah first command us to agriculturally rest on the seventh sabbatical year, only afterwards telling us about working the land during the preceding six years? Shouldn’t the order have been reversed?
Weekly Story: Ivan the Farmer
Lying down on the ground Ivan saw the train slow down to almost a standstill as it approached the curve and then proceeded very slowly. This was the moment he was waiting for. Running over to one of the back cars, he grabbed hold of the ladder and climbed up.
Underground USSR Rabbi Honored by US Senate
Soviet Jewish underground rabbi Hillel Zaltzman made history by being honored at the US Senate in Washington, D.C. A special award was presented to him by Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), who said that Rabbi Zaltzman is an inspiration to all.
Racist Rabble-Rouser Allegedly Assaults City Worker
Alicia Boyd, the notoriously anti-Semitic and anti-white founder of the Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), an organization which uses hateful tactics to oppose any commercial developments in Crown Heights, allegedly assaulted a worker who was cutting grass at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, a witness told CrownHeights.info.
Cheder at the Ohel Parades in Long Island
Cheder at the Ohel had its annual Lag Ba’omer Parade in Valley Stream State Park. The theme was Hakhel.
Shabbos at the Besht: Sefiras Ha’omer
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Hilel Heller, Rosh Yeshiva of the Westchester Yeshiva, will lead a discussion on the topic of Sefiras Ha’omer.
Affordable Apartments Up for Grabs
Applications are now open for 30 affordable apartments in a large, newly constructed building in Crown Heights. One-bedroom apartments will cost only $913 per month, and two-bedrooms will go for $1,065 per month. The apartments will be raffled off among the eligible applicants.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe at the 1987 Lag Ba’omer Parade.
Tefillin on the Run: Chabad at the Comrades
The Comrades Marathon is to South Africa what the New York City Marathon is to the United States. Only two times as long. At 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, the world’s oldest and largest marathon is billed as the ultimate human race. When the gun goes off this Sunday morning at 5:30, 20,000 runners will descend from the Kwazulu Natal town of Pietermaritzburg to Durban on the sea. Along the way, they will be feted by course-side bands and adoring spectators. And Rabbi Shlomo Wainer.
Baby Boy!
Yudi and Sarale Cohen (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Bentzi Lesches (Monsey, NY) and Esty (bas Dovid) Cohen (Montreal, Canada)
Weekly Letter of the Rebbe: War Miracles
As we approach the 49th anniversary of the Six-Day War, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he discusses the miracle of the Six-Day War and of the Yom Kippur War. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
