L’chaim: Bass – Epelbaum
Pictures from the L’chaim of Mendy Bass (Postville, IA) and Debora Epelbaum (Buenos Aires, Argentina), which took place Thursday night at The Shul at 481 Albany Ave. in Crown Heights.
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Monday: Children’s International Day of Learning
This Monday, 20 Adar, February 29, an international day of learning will unite children across the world through Torah study.
Regional Shabbatons Offer College Students Small Settings, Personal Touch
Chabad on Campus centers will host a total of seven regional Shabbatons this year throughout North America, and one in Europe, to unite students from various campuses by celebrating Shabbat together. Two of them have already taken place: one in Southern California two weeks ago and one in Philadelphia this past weekend.
Letter & Spirit: Infinite Good Vs. Finite Evil
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a unique letter written by the Rebbe in 1945, while he was still known as the Ramash and was chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch. In it, the Rebbe thanks a well-known supporter for his generous contributions, and explains the difference between the infinite and unlimited effects of a good deed and the limited qualities of an evil deed, which do not have a lasting existence and are ultimately annulled. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Judge Upholds NYC Mandatory Salt Warnings
The New York State Supreme Court has ruled that New York City can fine restaurants for not posting salt warnings for some food items on their menus.
Graffiti Artists Paint R’ Shlomo Lakein in Israeli Shuk
Reuters today profiled the work of graffiti artists Solomon Souza and Berel Hahn, whose murals of Jewish heroes add vibrant color to the Machane Yehudah marketplace in Jerusalem. Among those adorning the Shuk’s walls and shutters is a mural of R’ Shlomo Lakein, OBM, a Crown Heights educational pioneer who founded Yeshivas Darchei Menachem.
New Engagement!
Levi Margolin (Norfolk, VA/Jerusalem) and Aidel Gestetner (Jerusalem, Israel)
Fire Breaks Out in Kfar Chabad Talmud Torah
Kfar Chabad firefighters were dispatched this afternoon to the local Talmud Torah, amid reports of a fire in the school’s storage room.
Suspect Identified in Stabbing of Crown Heights Man
Police have identified a “person of interest” in connection with the stabbing of a 25-year-old Jewish man in Crown Heights two weeks ago.
Magnificent New Mikvah Dedicated in Moscow
On Tuesday, Purim Katan, a beautiful new, state-of-the-art women’s Mikvah was dedicated in Moscow, Russia.
Stabbing Victim: NYPD Must Increase Vigilance
In an interview with the New York Daily News from his parents’ home in Seagate, Leiby Brickman, who was stabbed in the back earlier this month by an unknown assailant on Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights, said that the NYPD must increase its vigilance to prevent these types of hate crimes against Jews.
Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One With the Thank You
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Ki Tisa. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why did G-d thank Moses for breaking the first set of Tablets? And if he had good reason for it, why did he wait an entire 40 days before thanking him?
New Engagement!
Velvil Rosler (Toronto, Canada) and Mushka (bas Shloime) Naparstek (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Mendy Bass (Postville, IA) and Debora Epelbaum (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Baby Boy!
Uri and Rochel Leah (nee Brownstein) Perlman (Kingston, PA)
Here’s My Story: From Flames to Riches
Rabbi Shloma Majeski is the principal of Machon Chana, a Chabad school in Brooklyn for college-age women who are new to the study of Torah. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in August of 2015.
South African Teens’ Arrival in New York Makes History
For young Jewish teens in South Africa, history was made today as the first members of CTeen-Cape Town landed at NYC’s JFK airport, completing the maiden voyage to the international CTeen Shabbaton.
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