Performing together in concert for the very first time, over 1,000 men packed the Oholei Torah ballroom to enjoy the music and signing of Mordechai Ben David and Benny Friedman in an auction event benefiting Keren Simchas Chosson VeKallah.
Ari and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Eidelman (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 104, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Crown Jewel of Chassidus for the Healthy? Gender Segregation; Purim Katan; IsHisbonenus Applicable Today? Reward and Punishment; Hanochos Cont.
On Friday, inspectors with the New York City Department of Buildings, the Fire Department and uniformed police officers served vacate orders on 14 ‘rooms’ inside of 749 Eastern Parkway due to dangerous conditions with the buildings structure and overcrowding.
Daniel Branover, owner of dairy restaurant Basil, is planning on opening a new kosher bakery – called Bakerie – on Albany Avenue. This new venture into another area of the food business comes along with another plan on his to open a meat restaurant – called Meat.
Shmueli and Sora (nee Margolis) Milecki (Crown Heights)
Over 2,000 participants from twenty-three countries will be attending the upcoming CTeen International Shabbaton in Crown Heights. The Shabbaton, which will take place from 17th-19th Adar Aleph (February 26-28th), will be the largest CTeen event to date.
Over 1,000 Men turned out for Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s annual auction event, which benefits the vital work they do in helping marry off Chassanim and Kallahs in Crown Heights. Attendees were treated to a lavish buffet and an amazing concert with Mordechai Ben David and Benny Friedman.
Meir and Yocheved Zirkind (Weston, FL)
An off-duty soldier stabbed to death by young terrorists while shopping Thursday with his wife and baby at a supermarket near Ramallah was laid to rest at the Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Tetzaveh. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why was it so imperative that the High Priest walk around with the bells at the bottom of his robe, that the consequences were so harsh?
Noach and Rochel (nee Moskowitz) Merenfeld (Crown Heights)
Dozens of people gathered together for an evening of support for the 17 Chesed organizations run by Chabad in Moscow.
Achiezer Langsam (Crown Heights) and Chana (bas Pesach) Laufer (Crown Heights)
The Chofetz Chaim than asked, are you feeling any pull in the heart to the ways of chassidim? Once again the young man replied, “No.” So why are you asking this question, inquired the Chofetz Chaim.
According to the Jewish calendar, a second month of Adar is added in a leap-year. While Purim is usually celebrated in Adar, during a leap-year it is postponed until the second Adar, and we mark Purim Katan – “the small Purim” in the first month.
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