A year after the terror attack on the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris, which resulted in the murder of Yoav Hatab, HYD, a graduate of the Chabad Boys’ School in Tunisia, a Sefer Torah has been dedicated in his memory, which was entered into a synagogue in his hometown of Djerba.
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Police are looking for a man who attempted to shoot a woman in a Crown Heights apartment building while she was holding her 7-year-old son. Thankfully, the gun jammed, and the intended victims were able to escape into an apartment.
Three Israelis were wounded, at least two of them critically, in separate shooting and stabbing terror attacks that occurred within minutes of each other in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva, respectively. Later in the day, a third terror attack occurred in central Jaffa, with the stabbing of at least three Israelis, one of whom died while being treated at the hospital.
Chanoch Wineberg (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Mushka (bas Yossi) Paltiel (Crown Heights)
Due to a change in location to South Africa’s capital city, Yeshivas Kayitz Costa Rica has been renamed to Yeshivas Kayitz-Pretoria.
“If only the walls can speak,” following the successful conclusion of their years High School Convention, a convention attendee wrote of her experiences spending a complete weekend in Crown Heights in the company of 1,200 girls from 32 Chabad schools from around the world.
For the second time in under two weeks, a magnificent new Mikvah was dedicated in Moscow, Russia. While the first new Mikvah is located on the campus of Machon Chomesh, a seminary for young Jewish woman, the second Mikvah was dedicated and the recently-rebuilt ‘Zhukovka Synagogue’ in the wealthier suburbs of the city.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Binyomin Mentz OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights. He was 85 years old.
Shlomo and Ariella (nee Friedman) Goldin (Irvine, CA)
Getzy and Shaina (nee Gopin) Markowitz (Montreal, Canada)
Machane Heights Day Camp of Crown Heights, the unique bicycling camp for elementary age boys (5-8th grades), operating out of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street, is proud to announce that after three successful summers, the head counselor this summer will be Rabbi Dovid Blasberg.
Last night, Shliach Rabbi Boruch Myers and his colleagues from Bratislava, Slovakia, performed a concert of Chabad Niggunim in Billings, Montana – an event that was described as a tremendous Kiddush Hashem. Rabbi Chaim Shaul Bruk drove in from Bozeman, where he leads Chabad of Montana, to attend the uplifting event.
Mivtzoim meets big data: A Lubavitcher-owned company, Gorin Systems, has developed an innovative system to help Shluchim and others doing Mivtzoim identify who is likely Jewish based on their last name and historical immigration records.
Yitzy and Chana (nee Kugal) Hershkop (Kingston, PA)
Many hundreds are anticipated to attend the Shloshim Memorial Event paying tribute to the life and legacy of Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, of blessed memory. The Shloshim will take place tonight at 7:00pm PST (10:00pm in New York), at the headquarters of Chabad of the Valley in Tarzana, CA, and thousands more will join online via live stream, which can be watched here on CrownHeights.info, courtesy of Chabad.org.
Today, the 27th of Adar I, marks the day the Rebbe suffered a stroke in 1992. The Rebbe’s personal secretary, Rabbi Yehudah Krinsky, described the events of that fateful day in vivid detail, which we share with our readers courtesy of Lubavitch Archives.
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