A total of 42,608 lines of Torah – Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and Yediyos Kloliyos – were learned as part Camp Gan Israel of Florida’s annual Mishnayos Be’Al Peh program – surpassing achievements in 5 out of 6 categories.
Gershi Alpern (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Mushky Weber (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)
An apparent bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded in a popular tourist hotspot in central Thailand, killing some 15 and injuring many more.
Rabbi Mottel Sharfstein, a long time resident of Crown Heights, will be remembered, this coming Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, for his humble demeanor, wonderful sense of humor and self effacing personality.
In most camps, the day after Color War is a lazy day, with not much going on. But Camp Gan Yisroel-NY isn’t “most camps,” and the day after Color War was far from lazy. Early in the morning came the exciting announcement that the grand trip would be taking place that very day, and grand it was.
Mendel and Fraydee (nee Posner) Kessler (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 80, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Our Troubled Youth; Mental Illness; Criticizing Others.
Marking its 3rd annual summer trip, CTeen’s travel camp – CTeen Xtreme, offered a month of unbelievable trips and extreme sports for Jewish teens from across the country.
This past week, Florida’s Broward County welcomed 2,000 teens, athletes and artists, as the David Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie/Cooper City hosted the annual JCC Maccabi Games and Artsfest.
Yeshivas Chovevei Torah has announced that for the coming year they will be introducing a new pre-semicha class for bochurim entering their final year of Zal.
Zalmy and Brocha (nee Kramer) Margolin (Crown Heights)
Comedian Moshe Kravitzky picked a fight with a black guy on a New York City subway… but in the end everyone applauded.
Overwhelmed by mounting questions about his work in the rabbinate and Jewish outreach, as well as in his business, Rabbi David Lapin sought advice from the Rebbe.
Zalmen and Dishy (nee Blachman) Zarchi (Crown Heights)
On Friday, August 7th, at around 6:00am, Ziza Djordjevic, 56, owner of the kosher Best Cake Bakery, was smoking a cigarette behind her establishment, when 2 men approached her, shot her in the face, and ran off with her apron, which is where they must have known she keeps her money. Every Friday she brings in cash to pay her workers.
The apple does not fall far from the tree: Avraham Fried’s son sings ‘Mi Adir’ at the Chuppah of his sister, who got married this week in Crown Heights.
Hershy and Chanie Hertzel (Postville, IA)
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