Chabad Sign at Texas A&M Vandalized
A sign identifying the Chabad Jewish student center at Texas A&M University was vandalized and then stolen.
A sign identifying the Chabad Jewish student center at Texas A&M University was vandalized and then stolen.
Halloween seems like an innocent holiday not affiliated with any particular religion. Children (sometimes, adults too) dress up, give and get candy, and in general, just have fun. Is there any reason a Jew should not join in the revelry?
Beth Rivkah of Montreal has earned the third highest rank of all 459 schools, private and public, in the province of Quebec, and number one in the entire province for “improvement over the last five years”. This is based on an independent analysis conducted by the Fraser Institute (a research and educational organization), which took ten factors into account. The media, including a television crew, came to Beth Rivkah to cover the story.
A 15-year-old teen was apprehended and arrested Motzei Shabbos after he mugged a Jewish women and took her cellphone. This despite the unfortunate best efforts of two cops, who subjected the victim to repeated questioning in an apparent effort to make her doubt herself.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Shimon Goldman OBM of Crown Heights, at the age of 91. The Levaya will take place on Tuesday.
Zalmy and Bracha (nee Kramer) Margolin (Crown Heights)
Schneur Zalman Kirsh (Crown Heights) and Mushkie (bas Avraham) Andrusier (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 135, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How to Cope with Post-Holiday Blues? Are Chassidic Standards Compatible with Halacha? Does Chassidus Have All the Answers? How Can a Chassid be Mean?
Representatives of the Chabad movement paid a condolence visit to the home to the Vice President of the Israeli Supreme Court Elyakim Rubinstein. Justice Rubinstein is sitting shiva for his daughter, who passed away after a long illness.
Members of the Lubavitch community in Paris attended the annual community Melave Malka that is held every year on Motzoei Shabbos Parshas Breishis, the first following the month of Tishrei.
Shmaya and Chana Waks (Hollywood, FL)
Ari and Yocheved (nee Eber) Karp (Crown Heights)