Video: Another Smashing Week at LDC-Monsey
Lubavitch Day Camp of Monsey completed its second exciting, fun and meaningful week of the summer. See the highlights of the week in this video slideshow.
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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
Picture of the Day: Tefillin at the All Star Game
Greeting the thousands of baseball fans was a group of Bochurim from the Yeshiva Gedola of Cincinnati who did Mivtzoim and put on Tefillin with many of the attendees.
New Engagement!
Dovber Cohen (Crown Heights) and Dina Weissman (South Africa/Baltimore)
Baby Boy!
Dovid Leib and Chani Myhill (Montreal, Canada)
From Days Gone By: Human Helicopter
Men dance joyously at a colleague’s wedding in the ballroom of Oholei Torah, also known at the time as The Brooklyn Jewish Center, circa mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photo, or what year it was taken?
A Winning Match: Kosher Tradition Meets Traditional Wimbledon
The scent of a freshly mowed lawn that comes with being the only Grand Slam played on a grass tennis court. The pristine white tennis outfits required of all players, to the exclusion of off-white or cream. Bowing or curtsying towards the Queen or the Prince of Wales if they are watching from the Royal Box.
Photos: ‘BOG War’ at CGI-Parksville
“All campers to the Shul, all campers to the Shul,” blared the P.A. this Wednesday afternoon at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY. The campers were instructed to say Tehillim for a missing camper, and listened to EMT Shmuly Klein, who spoke about the importance of safety. Then suddenly, BOG WAR!
Man Arrested for Threatening to Blow Up 770
NYC counterterrorism police officers arrested a mentally disabled man yesterday morning after he threatened to blow up ‘770,’ the headquarters and main synagogue of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights.
Photos & Video: Visiting Day at YSP-Morristown
On Sunday, campers and their parents enjoyed an exciting and fun-filled visiting day together at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
7 Women ‘Bike for Friendship’ from Michigan to NYC
After traveling about 650 miles across the country, seven cyclists finally made it to the finish line in Brooklyn, and it was all for a good cause.
Baby Boy!
Yankel and Mushkee (nee Wilhelm) Raskin (Montego Bay, Jamaica)
Iran and the United States and its negotiating partners reached agreement Tuesday on a deal that would curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief -- setting up a looming showdown between President Obama and Congress, where lawmakers could take issue with several provisions, including one giving Iran leverage over inspections. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deal a mistake of “historic proportions,” and vowed to keep up efforts to block the Islamic Republic from obtaining an atomic bomb.
World Powers and Iran Reach Nuclear Deal
Iran and the United States and its negotiating partners reached agreement Tuesday on a deal that would curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief — setting up a looming showdown between President Obama and Congress, where lawmakers could take issue with several provisions, including one giving Iran leverage over inspections. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deal a mistake of “historic proportions,” and vowed to keep up efforts to block the Islamic Republic from obtaining an atomic bomb.
New Engagement!
Yaakov Hellinger (Miami, FL) and Chana Kaufmann (New Orleans, LA)
Rebbe’s Items Sold for $80,000
Nine items which used to belong to the Lubavitcher Rebbe or have been associated with him – including a Tehillim, a Siddur andShabbos dinner tableware – were sold to collector last week for a total sum of more than NIS 300,000 (about $80,000).
Anti-Semite Spreads Hate in Fulton Mall
A CrownHeights.info reader sent us this photo of a man who was standing today in the midst of Brooklyn’s Fulton Street Mall holding a sign that read “Google it. Jews financed Black slavery.”
Congressman Honored at Dinner on the Golf Course
About 100 guests gathered recently to celebrate Chabad of Gloucester County’s amazing work and its recent purchase of 9.5 acres of land in the heart of Mullica Hill, NJ. The land will be used to build a new Jewish Center to accommodate the growing needs of the Jewish community in Gloucester County.
UK Shluchim Rejuvenated at Kinus
There are 117 families of Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim in the UK. Last week, 84 of those Shluchim gathered for the annual Chabad Lubavitch UK Kinus Hashluchim that was held in the magnificent setting of Bosworth Hall Hotel (part of the Britannia Group) in the picturesque village of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire.
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