Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer, co-director of Chabad on Campus Queens in Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., was making his rounds recently at the Franklin Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Flushing, N.Y., where he serves as a chaplain. He happened to check in on an 83-year-old man named Irving Malkis, a nursing-home resident from Manhattan.
The Lubavitch community of Paris gathered yesterday, Sunday, in the Chabad Shul for a special Hakhel gathering, joining their brethren all over the world in coordinated, simultaneous events.
While many Haredi and Chassidic communities continue to reject modern technologies, the Rebbe always maintained that the “ultimate purpose for which these new technologies were developed is that they be used for holy purposes“. This position dated back in the 1960s, when the Rebbe pioneered broadcasting of Torah and farbrengens around the world.
On Friday, August 28, over 25 Birmingham young Jewish professionals gathered for a Shabbat dinner at Chabad of Alabama in conjunction with the local You Belong in Birmingham YJP organization. Starting with the Kabbalat Shabbat service, and then proceeding with delectable traditional Shabbat foods such as challah and matza ball soup prepared by Rabbi Levi and Mushka Weinbaum, YBIB belong members truly felt the Shabbat spirit while meeting other young Jewish professionals in Birmingham.
When Jewish people the world over begin putting up sukkahs—the temporary dwellings used during the week-long holiday of Sukkot, which this year begins on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 27—Rabbi Michoel Rose will be adding an additional task to his pre-holiday checklist.
After thousands of Crown Heights residents completed the ancient ritual of Kapores and organizers already closed up for the night, a small but vocal group of animal rights protesters arrived in the neighborhood and marched the streets with sighs and chanting slogans over a bullhorn.
Moscow’s largest Sukkah, which is built annually in the yard of the Marina Roscha synagogue, is doubling in size this year.
Meir Werther (Denver, CO) and Chana (bas Yossi) Hecht (Crown Heights)
Taking advantage of subsidized Kapores, thousands took advantage of the $5 bargain thanks to the generosity of a number of philanthropists who enabled NCFJE to offer the deep discounts.
Moshe halevi Levi (Rishon Letzion, Israel) and Chaya Mushkah (bas Shimon) Sherr (Crown Heights)
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Masha Rosler OBM, a longtime resident of Montreal, Canada who pioneered Mivtza Neshe”k in her community. She was 83 years old.
Thousands of people around the world gathered for a Hakhal event, which was linked together with a live broadcast which featured speakers from Argentina through South Africa all the way back to the United States.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 84, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Jewish Guilt; Forgiveness; Faith vs. Superstition; Yom HaKippurim and Purim; Uninspired for the Holidays.
Motty Dalfin (Crown Heights) and Devorah Levin (Philadelphia, PA)
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