Chabad Breaks Ground to New Center in Stony Brook
A groundbreaking was celebrated Wednesday for the new Merrin Chabad Center opening near Stony Brook, New York.
4
New Engagement!
Shloime Nelken (Montreal/Toronto) and Chaya Posner (Birmingham, AL)
New Engagement!
Zalman Mergui (Paris, France) and Sarah Goldberg (Yerres, France)
Photos by Shturem.net
Experts Inspect the Construction of New Puerto Rico Mikvah
Just over a year ago Chabad of Puerto Rico laid the cornerstone for an ambitious new project, a new Jewish Center which will encompass many new ‘firsts’ for the Island, including a Mikvah. A number of experts have come to inspect the construction.
Baby Boy!
Sholom Ber and Batsheva (nee WIlhelm) Piekarski (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Berel and Mushka (nee Sasonkin) Kesselman (Crown Heights)
Here’s My Story: The Rebbe Looked After Us
Rabbi Ephraim Rosenblum is the assistant principal of the boys’ school at the Lubavitch Center Campus in Pittsburgh. He was interviewed in JEM’s My Encounter studio in New York in February of 2012.
New Engagement!
Yaakov Shusterman (Beverly Hills, CA) and Moussia Abend (Los Angeles, CA)
Bais Chaya Mushka Launches ‘Bubby Club’
It’s just after ten in the morning on Sunday. Three (and in some cases, four) generations of Jewish women filter into the lobby of Bais Chaya Mushka, located in Los Angeles’s own 770 building. Women and young girls alike are chatting animatedly, and all feel like important celebrities as their photos are taken in front of a custom-designed Step and Repeat backdrop.
Fire Breaks Out in Building Opposite Lefferts Park
A fire broke out in the basement of a building right across from the park on Lefferts and Albany. Smoke poured out from the storefronts and basement entrances.
From Days Gone By: Lindsay for Mayor
Lubavitchers and African-Americans join together in Crown Heights to campaign for the election of John Lindsey, who served as mayor of New York City from 1966 through 1973. Can you identify anyone in the photo and what year it was taken?
New Engagement!
Eli Block (Plano, TX) and Sara Abelsky (Crown Heights)
Four Orphans Undergo Bris Milahs in Ukraine
In an emotional and inspiring ceremony, the Jewish community of Zhitomir, Ukraine, celebrated the Bris Milah of four Jewish orphans, who are living and studying at the Or Avner Chabad educational campus in the outskirts of the city.
Williamsburg Group Warns Against Selling to Chabad
A shadowy extremist group in Williamsburg calling themselves ‘The Committee to Protect Our City from the Klipah of Chabad’ has posted Pashkvils around the neighborhood, warning and threatening local residents not to sell any property to the ‘Lubavitcher Apikorsim.’
New Engagement!
Benny Namdar (Milan, Italy) and Chanie Litvin (Louisville, KY)
Chief Rabbi Greeted by Yeshiva Students in Frankfurt
Rabbi Dovid Lau, the chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Israel, was greeted yesterday, Tuesday, by the student of the Chabad Yeshiva of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, where he landed for a stopover of several hours.
Submit a Story
