CB-9 Votes for Crown Heights Rezoning Study
After more than a year of controversy, Brooklyn Community Board 9 voted Tuesday to again recommend the city study zoning changes in parts of Crown Heights.
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Brunoy Graduates Pose for Traditional Group Photo
The graduating students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Brunoy, France posed for a group portrait outside the Yeshiva’s campus in the outskirts of Paris today.
New Engagement!
Simcha Weizel (Los Angeles/Valley Village) and Sefa Bloch (Los Angeles/Valley Village)
West Coast Gan Yisroel Enters 2nd Year in new Premises
For Camp Gan Yisroel West in California, its second season on their new premises sees more activities and growing enrollment in a summer programs for girls and boys.
252 Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos Finalists Announced
Hundreds of children have taken two qualifying tests to gain entry into the grand international Chidon Shabbaton. Coordinators in each school have marked the tests that will determine who is eligible to join. The 252 finalists, who have scored highest in their grades, will compete in the Chidon championships, taking place on May 31.
Houston got pounded with eight to 12 inches of rain overnight, causing severe flooding in various parts of the city. Mass transit, schools, offices and roads in the city were closed.
Shliach Works to Help Residents in Flooded Houston
“The sky fell down”—that’s how Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of Chabad Uptown in Houston describes what happened overnight when an intense rainstorm left much of the Houston metropolitan area submerged. Three people are believed to have died, nearly 1,000 cars have been stranded on freeways and in other areas, and people are continuing to leave the city, if they can.
New Engagement!
Noach Evers (Amersfoort, Holland) and Devorah Leah Lubin (Los Angeles/London)
From Days Gone By: A Higher Force
Jewish members of the U.S. Military put on Tefilin and say a prayer with the assistance of several Lubavitch Chassidim, circa early 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
‘Eurostars’ Program Shines, Seen in the Effect on Russian Youth Visiting Europe
Gliding down the Seine under a soft drizzle, the lone flame of the traditional Havdalah candle seemed to illuminate not just the boat, but the entire “City of Light.” Havdalah is the ceremony marking the end of Shabbat, and for the 500 young Jewish participants who traveled together to Paris, Berlin and the grounds of Auschwitz in Poland as part of Chabad-Lubavitch in Russia’s “Eurostars” program, the burning torch’s symbolism was apt.
Baby Boy!
Zalman and Mushka (nee Wolowik) Korf (Crown Heights)
Hundreds Rally After Pork Dumped at Holocaust Memorial
Hundreds gathered for a rally Friday morning at Pride of Lynn Cemetery, where a Holocaust memorial was discovered desecrated with pieces of raw pork earlier this week. “We stand united against all forms of evil,” said Rabbi Yossi Lipsker of Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore, who organized the ceremony reconsecrating the memorial. “We gather here, Jews, Christians, Muslims, and people of all faiths.”
8,000 Bags of Refreshments Distributed at the Kotel
8,000 bags – each containing a water bottle and muffin – were distributed to weary Jerusalemites who walked to the Kotel to spend the first night of Shavuos studying Torah.
With sadness we inform you of the passing this past Friday of Reb Sholom Dovber Alperowitz, OBM, in Los Angeles, CA. He was 84 years old.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Sholom Alperowitz, 84, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing this past Friday of Reb Sholom Dovber Alperowitz, OBM, in Los Angeles, CA. He was 84 years old.
Picture of the Day: The Making of Mitzvah Boulevard
Children’s entertainer Chaim Fogelman and musician Fitche Benshimon put the finishing touches to ‘Mitzvah Boulevard – Songs,’ which will be released this week, G-d willing.
Twin Girls!
Levi and Tany (nee Rosenberg) Swimmer (Johannesburg, South Africa)
1,000 Mezuzos Affixed in Western Ukraine
A week before Shavuos, brothers Yair, Nechemia and Rachamim Ladayev, all three active members of the Chabad community in France, arrived in Zhitomir in western Ukraine to facilitate the distribution of Tefilin and Mezuzos.
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