It was a surprise birthday party unlike any other at Bais Chaya Mushka in Los Angeles. All of the students lined up early in the yard, donned festive party hats, and waited excitedly for their beloved Director, Rabbi Danny Yiftach, to arrive.
Family and friends had to physically support an inconsolable young bride-to-be at the funeral of her father and brother,which was attended by hundreds of people in Jerusalem on Saturday night. They were slain by terrorists while traveling Friday to attend a pre-wedding celebration with her future husband.
BR Teen Club, an after-school program for Bais Rivkah’s 6-8 graders that provides nourishing food, homework support, and stimulating recreational clubs and workshops, has begun its fourth year with much enthusiasm.
A pair of masked burglars broke into a shared office space in Crown Heights and stole over $20,000 worth of electronics.
In the wake of the deadly ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein today said his organization is expanding emergency security aid to French-Jewish communal institutions. The Fellowship at the same time said it will help any French Jew who wishes to immigrate to Israel.
This morning was the first school-day following the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris Friday night that shocked France and the world. In the central city of Grenoble, Shliach Rabbi Yehia Lahiany reported that despite the omnipresent fear lingering over the country, not a single child was absent today at the Ohr Menachem Jewish Day School.
Chabad singer and rising star in the Israeli music scene Nemuel Harouche has released a new single – Shehasholom Shelo – an old Lubavitcher niggun from Nevel, which he sings with an upbeat tempo and classic Israeli musical instruments.
Avrohom and Baily Wolowik (Monsey, NY)
Benzion and Faigy (nee Grossbaum) Treitel (Montreal, Canada)
In honor of the Shloshim of Rabbi Aron Leizer Ceitlin OBM we present a set of photos from May 1977 in where he is seen studying with children in the Meginim Square in Tzfat, Israel. The photos are from the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 90, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Chassidic Dress Code; High Standards without Being Judgmental; Validity of Conversion; Are Other Religious Practices Legitimate? Colors of the Sefiros.
An emergency landing in Billings, Montana stranded some 299 passengers and crew after an engine malfunction on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel to Los Angeles, California. Stuck in a small terminal there was no access to kosher food, but Montana Shluchim came to the rescue.
Sholom and Chaya (nee Altein) Kramer (Crown Heights)
A bright yellow monumental sculpture installed near the East River spells “YO” when viewed from Manhattan and “OY” from Brooklyn. It went up this week in the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Main Street Lawn.
Students at Cheder at the Ohel were treated to a farbrengen with Cheder parent, Rabbi Zalman Wolowik of Chabad of the Five Towns and dancing with an in-house band in honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev.
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