A group of four teenagers prowling the streets of Crown Heights caught the eye of a patrolling Shomrim Volunteer who began following them. Nearly an hour later they were caught in the midst of stealing a pair of bicycles.
Yitzchok and Chaya Batya (nee Leiter) Yarmush (Crown Heights)
Yaakov Yosef and Chaya (nee Vaisfiche) Raskin (Huntington, NY)
Parents and friends made the trek up to the Catskill mountains for a fun-filled visiting day at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reuvy and Moussia (nee Lipskier) Kaminetzky (Crown Heights)
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.
A short clip on the preparation for Shabbos every Friday at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY.
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?
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.
With excellent staff, counselors and newly-renovated camp grounds, Yeshivas Kayitz-Kingston, a project of Oholei Torah, began the summer season with a bang.
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.
Yossi and Chaya Cadaner (Crown Heights)
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