New Engagement!
Nadav Frieder (Ramat Yishai, Israel) and Michal Dean (Crown Heights)
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New Engagement!
Levi Glick (Crown Heights) and Lulu Roth (Miami Beach, FL)
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Mushkie Liberow (Westwood, CA)
Here’s My Story: Yearning for Israel
Mr. Michael (Michel) Allouche lives with his wife and family in Israel, where for the past 24 years he has worked as an internationally recognized expert in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studios in January of 2016.
Video: Shliach Interviews Queens Assemblyman
On ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show, Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, along with co-host Marc Gronich, interviewed New York State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Queens), who called for the suspension of state funds for the Students for Justice in Palestine at CUNY.
Artists Perform Yitzi Hurwitz’s Lost Song
Before his diagnosis of ALS, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz wrote and composed a song titled “Shine a Little Light”, an upbeat and inspirational song which was left and forgotten on an old memory disc, after being recently found, it was brought to life like never before. The song was performed by 15 leading artists from around the world in an amazing compilation.
NSA Official Balances Family Life with Duties
Chani (Anne) Neuberger, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a father who escaped communist Hungary, said she feels both gratitude toward the United States and a sense of commitment as an observant Jew.
Purim in India.. in Upstate New York
Chabad of Orange County, NY, led by Shluchim Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, held a family-fun Indian-themed Purim party for the local Jewish community at the American Legion Banquet Hall in Monroe.
First Prayer Room for Female Jewish Prisoners Opens in Russia
Maria has been a prisoner in Leningrad Region’s Kolonia No. 2 for the last eight years. Born to a poor Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, for a time she attended the city’s Chabad Jewish school and other community programs. It was later that she got into serious trouble with the law, ending up at a women’s prison camp about an hour’s drive southeast of her native city. But some good news came on Monday, when Maria and 13 other Jewish women were on hand for the opening of the first-ever prayer room for Jewish female prisoners in the country.
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Chana Raizel (nee Glassner) Zaklikowski (Crown Heights)
Community Board-9 Pressured to Appoint Disgraced Political Operative as District Manager
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, a senior adviser to Borough President Eric Adams who has close ties to disgraced Brooklyn Democratic boss Clarence Norman Jr., is putting the heat on Community Board-9 – which encompasses most of Jewish Crown Heights – to hire Norman’s ex-campaign treasurer, Carmen Martinez, as district manager — even though she was previously forced out of a city job for committing fraud.
‘Jewish 100’ Honored at Algemeiner Gala
The Algemeiner unveiled its 3rd annual ‘Jewish 100′ list of the top people “positively influencing Jewish life” on Monday night, at a star-studded gala in Manhattan, presided over by publisher Simon Jacobson and editor-in-chief Dovid Efune. Honorees in attendance included Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove, News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch and famed philosopher and humanitarian Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Morristown Gets New Shluchim
Right before purim, Rabbi Moishe and Mushkie Gurevitz (nee Wolvovsky), together with their children, Menachem and Esther, moved to Morristown, NJ, as the new Shluchim to serve the Young Jewish Professional community in Morristown.
Picture of the Day: King and Queen
It was a strange sight in a New York civil marriage court when a Jewish couple was legally married while dressed as a king and queen.
Renowned Therapist Teaches Spousal Communication
Hundreds of Crown Heights women gathered in the hall of Lubavitcher Yeshiva to hear words of wisdom on the subject of Taharas Hamishpacha from renowned therapist Dr. Lisa Twerski. The event was organized by Mikvah.org.
Oholei Torah Dedicates Gymnasium at Gala Event
A few days before Purim, hundreds of guests gathered in the newly renovated gymnasium for a premier viewing and dedication, which coincided with the Annual Gala Dinner of Oholei Torah.
Russian Language Siddur Printed in Braille
For the first time in history, Chabad in Russia has printed a Russian-translated Siddur in braille, for the sake of Russian-speaking Jews who suffer from blindness.
