Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice-chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, was in Israel for the past week, and arrived in New York late last night just in time to be Menachem Avel the family of Rabbi Binyomin Klein, OBM, before they got up from Shiva.
With Gimmel Tammuz falling out this year on Shabbos, organizers are hard at work preparing for the tens of thousands expected to visit the Ohel. Registration for those wishing to spend Shabbos at the Ohel closes Wednesday. Inside: Maps, times and information for visitors.
An Israeli woman recently entered a synagogue in the city of Elad claiming she is possessed by a ‘Dibbuk.’ A ‘Kabbalist’ who took up the task of extracting the ‘Dibbuk’ claims that he has communicated with the spirit, which purportedly identified itself as the soul of a man who committed a murder 70 years ago.
Mendy Ross (Matawan, NJ) and Tirtza Phillips (Worcestor, MA)
Merely hours after an 18-year-old African-American teen was stabbed to death inside a Utica Ave. shoe store, another 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death barely a few hundred feet away, on the corner of Utica Ave. and Eastern Parkway – near the Crown Heights-Utica Ave. subway station, in what appears to be a related incident.
Abi (ben Shloime) Naparstek (Crown Heights) and Chana (bas Yosef) Deitsch (New Haven, CT)
An 18-year-old African-American boy was stabbed to death Wednesday evening while shopping inside a sneaker store on the corner of Utica Ave. and Lincoln Place.
Pesach and Bracha (nee Sitrin) Zirkind (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker is a world-renowned composer of Jewish music with more than 400 melodies to his credit. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Brooklyn in April of 2010.
Right after Purim of this year, Menucha Rochel Andrusier, a 4-year-old Shlucha from Irvine, California, was diagnosed with a yenah machla. The road ahead is extremely difficult and challenging, but with the help of Hashem and all the Mitzvos being done for Rochel, she will G-d willing merit a complete and speedy recovery.
Rabbi Yossi Lipsker presents Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker with a Menorah and the Lamplighter Award at Chabad of the North Shore of Boston’s 23rd anniversary gala dinner.
Chabad at the Shore in Atlantic City, NJ, directed by Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, and head Shliach of Atlantic & Cape May Counties, Rabbi Shmuel Rapoport, announced the purchase of a former Episcopal Church, which – after thorough renovations – will become a center of Jewish outreach.
Residents in northern Crown Heights are asking transportation officials to make safety changes on St. Johns Place in the wake of two deadly accidents.
Singles and couples from as far as Brooklyn traveled to Great Neck, Long Island, to hear Rabbi Manis Friedman’s words of wisdom on the topic of dating.
Baby Café, the highly innovative and trendy baby feeder to Torah Tots Preschool of Chabad Markham, Ontario, has concluded another highly successful year. Over 20 babies and their parents attended this exciting and stimulating program.
Roosevelt lsland—the unobtrusive strip of land that sits in the East River between Queens and Manhattan—is a place many New Yorkers might have trouble pointing out on a map.
Mendy Hildeshaim (Crown Heights) and Mushky Fellig (Montreal, Canada)
