Baby Girl!
Yaakov Yosef and Chaya (nee Vaisfiche) Raskin (Huntington, NY)
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Photos: Visiting Day in Camp Gan Israel Parksville
Parents and friends made the trek up to the Catskill mountains for a fun-filled visiting day at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
8:00pm: Abandoning Mitzvos in the Name of Therapy; Is this World Good or Bad? Rabbi’s Inappropriate Behavior; World to Come for Women
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 75, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Abandoning Mitzvot in the Name of Therapy; Is this World Good or Bad? Rabbi’s Inappropriate Behavior; World to Come for Women.
YSP-Morristown Campers Make Their Own Tzitzis
Learning from a Sefer is very important, but hands-on experience takes learning to a whole new level. Each year YSP’s learning directors incorporate an activity into the learning class to help the Talmidim internalize and remember what they have learned.
‘Darkeinu’ Teachers Gather in Jerusalem
Forty-five Jewish heritage teachers at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ Jewish school network in the Former Soviet Union participated last month in ‘Darkeinu’s’ annual teachers’ seminar that took place in the heart of Jerusalem, Israel.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Simcha Zirkind, 76, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden passing of Rabbi Simcha Yerachmiel Zirkind OBM, Shliach of the Rebbe to Tunisia and later to Montreal, Canada. He was 76 years old. Levaya times added.
Weekly Living Torah Video: A Historic Exception
After coming to America in 1941, the Rebbe spent his every single day working tirelessly on behalf of the Jewish people from his office in 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn. On only three occasions did he leave New York City limits, each time to visit Camp Gan Israel in the Catskill Mountains, NY.
Baby Girl!
Reuvy and Moussia (nee Lipskier) Kaminetzky (Crown Heights)
CGI Russia: 25 Years of Historic Transformation
High on a flagpole some 70 kilometers west of Moscow, the green-and-white banner of Camp Gan Israel flutters in the breeze. Now in the midst of its 25th year, Gan Israel Moscow—a part of the Chabad-Lubavitch worldwide network of Jewish summer camps—draws more than 300 children for separate boys’ and girls’ sessions of overnight camp.
Video: Erev Shabbos in Gan Yisroel
A short clip on the preparation for Shabbos every Friday at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY.
Halachic Analysis: Having a Goy Push Your Stroller on Shabbos
Rabbi Shlomo Segal, member of the Crown Heights Beis Din, addresses the following question: May one instruct a non-Jew on Shabbos to wheel a baby carriage in the street when the parents want to visit friends or family and eat the seudas Shabbos there or they wish to participate in a Bris, Bar Mitzva or something similar?
CTeen Kinus Triples in Size in 2nd Year
The Second Annual CTeen Kinus recently took place in Bushkill, PA. For the thirty-six couples in attendance from around the world, the Kinus was a chance for them to gain inspiration, insight, and chizuk about their goals as shluchim.
Yeshiva Kayitz in Kingston, NY, Opens with Success
With excellent staff, counselors and newly-renovated camp grounds, Yeshivas Kayitz-Kingston, a project of Oholei Torah, began the summer season with a bang.
Learning Life Lessons From Wacky Science
As electric leaf blowers blow rolls of toilet paper, a delighted crowd of young children listen to Dr. Schnitzel derive Newton’s laws of motion, Jewish ideas, morals and observance. It is the ever popular world of mad science with a Jewish twist.
Baby Boy!
Yossi and Chaya Cadaner (Crown Heights)
Rosenfeld ‘un-Hires’ New Dean, Rabbi Lustig to Return
Parents of students in Oholei Torah, the community’s largest boy’s school, have been left in the dark after rumors that the new dean Rabbi Michoel Druin was ‘un-hired’.
Letter & Spirit: Where Was G-d During the Holocaust?
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in honor of the three weeks – a time of reflection on the tragedies which befell the Jewish people over the centuries – we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he addresses the question regarding the terrible fate that overcame European Jewry two decades earlier, and how to reconcile this with the basic beliefs of Judaism. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
