When Shoshanna Silcove learned that she had become a grandmother for the first time, she couldn’t contain her excitement. She jumped up out of her office chair and exclaimed, “I’m a grandmother!” All her 150 co-workers stood up and applauded. Then, she had a moment of reflection.
Yossi Schwartz (Hallandale, FL) and Chaya Block (Melbourne, Australia)
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Beryl Epstein OBM, a longtime Crown Heights resident who was famous for his walking tours of the neighborhood. He was 58 years old.
Shmaya and Rivkee (nee Belkin) Krinsky (Miami Beach, FL)
A Chabad rabbi from Crown Heights, whose great-great grandfather served as spiritual leader of the the Jewish community of North Dakota for 53 years, returned to the state to conduct a Pesach Seder this year.
CrownHeights.info has learned that a Bochur on Shlichus for Pesach in Guatemala was critically injured in an ATV accident and is fighting for his life. Tehillim in the extended article.
With sadness we inform you of the tragic passing of Rabbi Mendel Deutsch OBM, a Lubavitcher Rabbi and activist from Jerusalem, Israel, who was savagely beaten while in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir earlier this year. He never recovered from those injuries and over Shabbos came the tragic news of his passing. He was 64 years old.
Mendel and Chani (nee Wolff) Moskovitz (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Crown Heightsers preparing for Shabbos Chol Hamoed Pesach were startled into thinking Shabbos was starting an hour before the zman when the siren announcing the 18 minutes and the start of Shabbos went off an hour early.
Maychee and Shaindy (nee Cadaner) Sherr (Crown Heights)
Shlomo and Brocha Sternberg (Crown Heights)
Refoel and Chani (nee Pevzner) Silver (Crown Heights)
The Rebbe responded: “listening to non-Jewish music can badly affect a sensitive soul, resulting in physical illness.” In order to clarify what he meant, Malka asked; “Does the Rebbe mean that I should only listen exclusively to Jewish or chassidic or Chabad music?”
Spanning the vast country, from Moscow, Siberia, and to the Far East – over 500 Pubic Seders were attended by thousands upon thousands of Russian Jews. On Erev Pesach, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his Passover greetings to Russian Jewry.
A young woman was fatally wounded in a stabbing attack earlier today (Friday) on the light railway in the center of Jerusalem.
Baltimore Shliach Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum was featured on the front page of the Baltimore Sun, in a segment about his Pesach outreach activities to servicemen stationed at the Air National Guard Headquarters.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rivkah Begun, OBM, beloved Shlucha to São Paulo, Brazil for 57 years. She was 81 years old. Five of her children are Shluchim in São Paulo, and one a Shliach in Georgia. Her brother is Rabbi Moshe Herson, head Shliach of New Jersey.
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