Just one year after being established, the Simchas Rochel and Golda Gown Gemach has helped over 200 women find a beautiful gowns for their Simchas. Chani Vogel writes of her wonderful experiences with this endeavor.
Hershy and Ariella (nee Schachter) Ives (Crown Heights)
Yoni and Aviva Marrus (Pembroke Pines, FL)
Generally, the visitors who grace the Shabbat table of Rabbi Yehoshua and Zlata Chincholker tend to be college students at Indiana University Bloomington, where the couple directs the campus Chabad House-Jewish Student Center. Last Shabbat, however, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries welcomed a different group of students–Israelis in town for disaster training.
On Thursday afternoon, immediately preceding the gala banquet in honor of the 60th year since its founding, the entire Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY – campers, staff, and directors – gathered for the annual camp picture. Joining camp for the picture was co-founder and first head counselor of Gan Yisroel, Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan, Italy.
In honor of the 17th of Tammuz, JEM has assembled a collection of clips featuring the Rebbe observing the fast and discussing the meaning of the day.
On the 16th of Tammuz, 5716 (1956), the Rebbe visited the grounds of the fledgling Camp Gan Yisroel, which had been founded that year in upstate New York. Touring the installations, the Rebbe showed great interest in every aspect of the camp.
In 1976, a young high schooler in Crown Heights felt the need to push back against the expectations and strictures of life as a Lubavitcher girl. The Rebbe’s sensitivity and approach to her predicament remain as topical and incisive now as ever – truly a guide to the perplexed. Today, Mrs. Mariashi Groner is the Co-director of Lubavitch of North Carolina and the Director of Charlotte Jewish Day School.
Eli and Brachie (nee Clapman) Friedman (Crown Heights)
Yisroel Noach and Slava (nee Edelman) Blank (Crown Heights)
New York City fire officials say June was the first month in 150 years that there wasn’t a fire-related death in the city.
The NYPD has begun a crackdown on electric bikes and the restaurants that use them, saying the use of such bikes are de facto illegal since they cannot be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Binyamin and Sara (nee Putter) Boubili (Crown Heights)
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Kasriel Kastel will lead a discussion on the topic – Summer: Opportunity or Challenge?
Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.
When Israel Edelson, a rising conductor under the tutelage of legendary maestro Leonard Bernstein, arrived in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, some 30 years ago, he was searching for a something. He found it in Chasidic melodies, known as niggunim, that were sung around the Shabbat table at the home of Rabbi Yoel Kahan.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying L’chaim with the elder Chassidim sitting behind him at a Farbrengen in the early 1970s.
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