Baby Girl!
Berel and Mushka (nee Sasonkin) Kesselman (Crown Heights)
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Here’s My Story: The Rebbe Looked After Us
Rabbi Ephraim Rosenblum is the assistant principal of the boys’ school at the Lubavitch Center Campus in Pittsburgh. He was interviewed in JEM’s My Encounter studio in New York in February of 2012.
New Engagement!
Yaakov Shusterman (Beverly Hills, CA) and Moussia Abend (Los Angeles, CA)
Bais Chaya Mushka Launches ‘Bubby Club’
It’s just after ten in the morning on Sunday. Three (and in some cases, four) generations of Jewish women filter into the lobby of Bais Chaya Mushka, located in Los Angeles’s own 770 building. Women and young girls alike are chatting animatedly, and all feel like important celebrities as their photos are taken in front of a custom-designed Step and Repeat backdrop.
Fire Breaks Out in Building Opposite Lefferts Park
A fire broke out in the basement of a building right across from the park on Lefferts and Albany. Smoke poured out from the storefronts and basement entrances.
From Days Gone By: Lindsay for Mayor
Lubavitchers and African-Americans join together in Crown Heights to campaign for the election of John Lindsey, who served as mayor of New York City from 1966 through 1973. Can you identify anyone in the photo and what year it was taken?
New Engagement!
Eli Block (Plano, TX) and Sara Abelsky (Crown Heights)
Four Orphans Undergo Bris Milahs in Ukraine
In an emotional and inspiring ceremony, the Jewish community of Zhitomir, Ukraine, celebrated the Bris Milah of four Jewish orphans, who are living and studying at the Or Avner Chabad educational campus in the outskirts of the city.
Williamsburg Group Warns Against Selling to Chabad
A shadowy extremist group in Williamsburg calling themselves ‘The Committee to Protect Our City from the Klipah of Chabad’ has posted Pashkvils around the neighborhood, warning and threatening local residents not to sell any property to the ‘Lubavitcher Apikorsim.’
New Engagement!
Benny Namdar (Milan, Italy) and Chanie Litvin (Louisville, KY)
Chief Rabbi Greeted by Yeshiva Students in Frankfurt
Rabbi Dovid Lau, the chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Israel, was greeted yesterday, Tuesday, by the student of the Chabad Yeshiva of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where he landed for a stopover of several hours.
Baby Boy!
Yoel and Tsvia (nee Cabessa) Edelman (Paris, France)
Orange County Kids Celebrate Israel Day and Mother’s Day
Chabad of Orange County Hebrew School students learned about their connection to and the history of the Holy Land of Israel at a special Israel Day program. The students also celebrated Mother’s Day with a unique program called “Honoring Ima.”
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, May 14. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Ita Bistritzky, 85, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing in Jerusalem of Mrs. Ita Bistritzky, OBM, wife of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Bistritzky, OBM, and matriarch of a large family of Chabad Chasidim, Rabbonim and Shluchim. She was 85 years old.
21-Year-Old Jewish Man Among Dead in Train Derailment
Daylight on Wednesday revealed the devastation caused by an Amtrak train derailment in Philadelphia that left at least six people dead and dozens injured, several critically, in a terrifying wreck that plunged passengers into darkness and chaos.
Rabbi Prepares Special Children for Bar Mitzvah
When Ryan Meindl was called up to the Torah in honor of his bar mitzvah earlier this month, he felt well prepared. Blessed with a good ear for music, he used transliterations and did a fine job reciting the blessings for his aliyah and the Torah.
