Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 is a day that will always be remembered with sadness for the student body of the close-knit Torah Day School in Houston. On that day, they were told that seventh-grader Mendel Cotlar had suddenly lost his life from unexpected complications from GSD-1A, a metabolic disease. Only three weeks beforehand, they had sang and danced with him at his bar mitzvah celebration.
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a delegation of representatives of the Russian Jewish Community, headed by the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, and Mr. Lev Leviev, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC).
Mendy Wilschanski (Morristown, NJ) and Brocho (bas R’ Benyomin) Serebranski (Melbourne, Australia)
Eliyahu Raskin (Brooklyn Heights, NY) and Shaindy Holtzberg (Georgetown, NY)
A petition calling for the ouster of MSNBC news reporter Ayman Mohyeldin for providing biased coverage of events in Israel has exceeded its goal of 5,000 signatures in just two days.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of George (Moshe Dovid) Davidsohn, OBM, a renowned philanthropist and member of the Jewish communities of Crown Heights and Boro Park, Brooklyn.
Thousands of people from all walks of life gathered in Manhattan’s Times Square for a protest in support of the State of Israel, and to vocally condemn the recent rash of terror attacks perpetrated on its citizens.
Yair was getting ready to leave the house a few days ago in Ra’anana, Israel. Getting dressed,he looked for a pair of tzitzis that he wears under his shirt all the time, following the biblical commandment to do so.
An Israel Defense Forces soldier and an Eritrian asylum-seeker were killed, and 11 people wounded, when a terrorist stabbed a soldier, grabbed his rifle and opened fire late Sunday in the central bus station in the southern city of Be’er Sheva. The asylum-seeker was mistakenly shot and killed by security forces responding to the attack.
Bentzy Chesney (Crown Heights) and Chaya Serebryanski (Melbourne, Australia)
Braving the cold weather, hundreds turned out for a special Kosher Day street fair on Crown Heights’ Kingston Ave.
Yosef Peysin (Chicago, IL) and Chana Wircberg (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 86, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Baal Tshuva Discrimination; Family Planning; Should Past Experiences Affect Dating? Marital Advice; A Moody or Unstable Spouse.
Rabbi Aharon Eliezer Ceitlin, OBM, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 62, was a member of the fourth Kevutzah of Shluchim to spend two years as the Rebbe’s Shluchim to the Yeshivah Gedolah in Melbourne, Australia. He related the following event which began unfolding when he embarked on this Shlichus. It was transcribed by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne, who heard it from Rabbi Ceitlin at a Farbrengen, and later shared the transcription with him to review for accuracy.
As the ‘Hakhel’ year began, just after Rosh Hashanah, hundreds filled the hall in celebration of the 13th anniversary—“Bar Mitzvah” of Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe Township, New Jersey, led by its directors, Rabbi Eliezer and Chanie Zaklikovky, with a sold-out concert by international singing sensation Dudu Fisher.
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