Baby Girl!
Yossi and Sterna (nee Gabay) Zwiebel (Crown Heights)
From Days Gone By: ’60s Bar Mitzvah
In this vintage photograph, several Lubavitcher women pose for a group portrait at a Bar Mitzvah in the 1960s. Can you identify anyone in the photo, where and when it was taken?
Speed Camera Tickets Surge, Bring In Nearly $17M
Speed cameras, which issue tickets automatically when drivers go more than 10mph over the speed limit, have produced a surge in tickets and generated nearly $17 million in revenue for New York City.
Deaf Jews Celebrate Their Heritage at Deaflympics
As one of the only rabbis serving the Deaf community, Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff is constantly on the go. Right now, he’s in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, bringing Shabbat, matzah and Jewish awareness to contestants and guests at the 18th Winter Deaflympics, which runs from March 28 to April 5.
Four Mitzvah Tanks ‘Conquer’ Montreal
Last Thursday, in honor of the Rebbe’s birthday, four Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of Montreal after a GoFundMe campaign that raised over $400 plus donations from members of Montreal’s Jewish community.
Video: Rabbi B’s Favorite Pesach Things
Yossi Berktin, AKA ‘Rabbi B,’ is a children’s musician and entertainer from Toronto, Canada. He recorded these two fun and educational videos in honor of Pesach, titled ‘Favorite Pesach Things’ and ‘Chad Gadya.’
Alternate Side Rules Suspended Thursday-Saturday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday through Saturday, April 2-4. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Picture of the Day: Matzah Prep for Mitzvah Tank Parade
Students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St.’s 7th grade pack Matzos to be distributed at the Yud Aleph Nissan Mitzvah Tank Parade, which took place Tuesday.
Rebbe’s Birthday Celebrated in Buffalo
Shluchim, Anash, and friends of Lubavitch gathered together in Buffalo, NY, to celebrate Yud Aleph Nissan – the Rebbe’s birthday
Baby Boy!
Chaim and Mushkee (nee Raksin) Sasonkin (Crown Heights)
Drugs Stashed in Peanut Butter Delivered to Kahan’s
Kahan’s Superette, a kosher food grocery store in Crown Heights, found itself in a sticky situation when 10 bags of marijuana — stashed inside vacuum-sealed bags of peanut butter — showed up in the mail. A similar incident occurred at a different Kingston Ave. establishment two years earlier.
Marking 5 Years, Besht Begins New Torah
This Evening, Yud Alef Nissan, the community of the Besht Shul began the writing a brand new Sefer Torah marking five years to the founding of the Shul. The new Torah is being dedicated in memory of the wives of one of the congregants as well as that of the Shuls Rabbi.
Picture of the Day: Writing the Children’s Torah
In the picturesque Tzemach Tzedek Shul in the Old City of Jerusalem, an expert scribe by the name of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Henig is busy writing a Sefer Torah. This is the sixth scroll written especially for children, and over half of its letters have already been sold.
The Rebbe on the Passing of a Loved One
In honor of the Rebbe’s birthday, we present two stories of the Rebbe from the recently published Advice for Life: From Life to Life, published by Rabbi Dovid Zaklikowski of Hasidic Archives. The publication, the first of its kind in English, compiles the Rebbe’s teachings on life after death, it covers such topics as the soul, comforting, mourning, memorializing, the comforter, kaddish and yartzeit.
New Engagement!
Nachmi Rosenberg (Montreal, Canada) and Zeldie Minkowitz (Ft. Myers, FL)
New Engagement!
Menachem (ben Gershon) Orenstein (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas Uri) Gelman (Toronto, Canada)
Obama Declares Rebbe’s Birthday ‘Education Day’
The anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s birth—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—is again officially a day of special note for American citizens. President Barack Obama signed a proclamation declaring March 31, 2015, corresponding to the 11th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan, as “Education and Sharing Day, USA.”
