The Friendship Circle of South Bay in Los Angeles, founded and directed by Rabbi Yossi Mintz, raised a whopping $1.4 million during its 7th annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, which is sponsored by Skechers.
Rabbi Isser Lubecki, now married and serving as a Chabad Shliach in Paris, France, will make a stopover in Toronto on his way to the Kinus Hashluchim in New York this year. The purpose of this stopover is to pay a visit to his former Yeshiva, Nefesh Dovid – a Yeshiva that caters to Bochurim who are deaf – where he will make a Siyum on the entire Shas in front of his beaming former teachers and classmates.
Rabbi Shmuel Kopel, originally from Crown Heights, recently moved to Tzfas, Israel, to perform Shlichus there. In honor of the upcoming “Shabbat Chevron” weekend, which coincides every year with Parshas Chayei Sarah – in which Avraham purchased the Me’aras Hamachpelah – he composed, recorded and filmed this music video about the holy city of our forefathers.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, November 3, for Election Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Yehuda and Sarah (nee Spangenthal) Dukes (Crown Heights)
A Palestinian terrorist wounded three Israelis in a stabbing attack in Rishon Letzion, and a 71-year-old Israeli man was stabbed in Netanya today in a non-ending wave of Palestinian violence that broke out over a month ago.
With great shock and deep pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Mrs. Sara (nee Cohen) Deren, OBM, wife of Shliach Rabbi Mendy Deren, OBM, who passed away five years ago. She was 38 years old, just one month shy of her 39th birthday.
The annual global conference of Chabad emissaries, or shluchim, will begin at week’s end in New York City. About 3,500 shluchim are expected to take part, and to discuss matters at the center of Jewish life worldwide.
Shmuly and Sara Leah (nee Spielman) Shuchat (Crown Heights)
Today, Monday, the 20th day of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan, marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of visionary Jewish leader and Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn. Though he lived only to age 59, he served as a noted leader for the largely rural Jewish communities throughout the expanses of the Russian Empire, guiding their transition to life in the modern era. During his life, he fought the oppression of both the Czarist and Bolshevik regimes as well as the tides of assimilation corroding traditional Jewish life.
Chaim Marks (N. Hollywood, CA) and Rachel Skupsky (Pittsburgh, PA)
Hundreds of women and girls turned out Sunday night in support of Ten Yad, an organization which helps Kallahs. The event was held in the Razag Ballroom in Crown Heights, with a lavish food buffet, an auction viewing capped off by hilarious entertainment.
Marking a year to the passing of Reb Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov OBM, the beloved head Shliach of Paris, the community got together for a Melava Malkah.
Chaim Goldenberg (Montreal/Paris) and Sterna Zerbib (Paris, France)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 88, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines a Shliach? Our Stance on Israel; Why Not Appoint a New Rebbe? Continued; Advice to a Journeyer; What does Bechinah Mean?
Plans for a seven story 129,724 square foot apartment building on S. Johns Place have been filed with the Department of Buildings, of which 83,789 will be residential and make up 122 apartments averaging around 650 square feet per apartment.
Rabbi Hershel Lustig, principal of Oholei Torah, paid a visit to the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager, who is currently residing in Crown Heights during an extended visit to the United States. The purpose of his visit was to gift ‘Reb Mendeleh’ a special sefer, which bears a connection between the two men.
