From Days Gone By: Celebrating the Rebbe’s Recovery
Reb Meir Harlig emcees one of the first annual Rosh Chodesh Kislev gatherings in 770, celebrating the Rebbe’s recovery after he suffered a heart attack on Simchas Torah, 5738 (1977).
7
Thursday: Special Adar Gathering with Reb Yankel Miller
In honor of Rosh Chodesh Adar and following the custom of ‘Mishenichnas Adar Marbim B’Simcha’, Beis Eliezer Yitzchok will be hosting a special Chassidus Shiur followed by a Chassidishe gathering with renown comedian Rabbi Yankel Miller, the Yarmer Rov.
Picture of the Day: Snowman in Class
While most kids would find it difficult to bring their snowman to school for Show & Tell, the Cohen kids from Ocean City, Maryland – students at the Chabad International Online School – had no problem at all.
MyShliach Thanks ‘Big Sisters’
The sun shone brightly for nine-year-old Bracha Raichik one chilly afternoon last fall when she received a phone call from someone who introduced herself simply as Faigy Fellig from Crown Heights. Living on shlichus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Chassidishe friends were hard for Bracha to come by, and phone calls from like-minded girls were few and far between.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Reb Zalman Gelernter, 89, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Zalman Gelernter, OBM, a holocaust survivor, Kingston Avenue storeowner and veteran member of the Crown Heights community, who loved and was loved by all. He was 89 years old.
What to Do on Yet Another Boston Snow Day? Bake Hamantashen!
It’s snowing—again—in Boston, and for the Ciment family, that means it’s time for “Mommy Camp.” On today’s agenda: morning prayers, baking, arts-and-crafts and more.
New Engagement!
Michoel Procaccia (Crown Heights) and Rebeca Serur (S. Paulo, Brazil)
Motzei Shabbos: G’mach to Host Melave Malka
The committee of Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib, a G’mach that benefits many Crown Heights families, is inviting the community to participate in its annual Melave Malka, which will take place this Motzei Shabbos at Beis Rivkah-Crown St.
Rabbi Yosef Eisenbach, director of Chabad of Litchfield County, Connecticut, in front of the property.
Town Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss Chabad Lawsuit
The Historic District of Litchfield Connecticut is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit regarding the rejection of plans for a synagogue in 2007. Chabad Lubavitch of Northwest Connecticut cited the Litchfield Historic District Commission for religious discrimination over the denial of modifications to their building.
Rabbi Mendy Kivman of the Chabad Jewish Center, along with his sons from left, Levi, Sruly, Shmuly, and Zalmy (not in photo) clear a hydrant of snow along Cedar Street in Milford on Monday.
Chabad Rabbi and His Young Team Aid Fire Department with Shovels
Rabbi Mendy Kivman, director of Chabad of Milford, MA, took to the streets with his four sons Monday afternoon on a mission to free some fire hydrants.
Milford Daily News
Artist's rendering of the proposed Chabad Center.
Chabad of Short Hills, NJ, Seeks to Build New Home
Ahavath Torah-Chabad of Short Hills, NJ, under the leadership of Rabbi Mendel and Chana D. Solomon, has applied for a zoning variance to build a 7,000-square-foot synagogue and Jewish programming center. The new building will replace Chabad’s current 2,800-square-foot ranch-style structure, which has been in use since 2000.
Twin Girls!
Mendy and Chani (nee Demercur) Brennan (Crown Heights)
The new street sign honoring Rabbi Shalom Mendel Kalmanson, OBM (inset).
French City Names Street for Chabad Educator It Once Fought
When Rabbi Shalom Mendel Kalmanson approached the city of Aubervilliers in 1963, seeking permits to open a new Jewish day school, Jack Ralite, then the city’s minister of education and a member of the French Communist Party, foreswore any such development: “In Aubervilliers there will be no private Jewish day school.”
New Torah Written for Healing Gaza War Veterans
In the lobby of the Rehabilitation Department at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel, a moving event has taken just place: Chabad’s Terror Victims Project organized the writing of a special Torah Scroll in the merit of the healing of all the soldiers wounded in Operation Protective Edge, also known as the Gaza War, which took place in the summer of 2014.
400 Gather in Miami to Combat Child Abuse
Four hundred members of Miami’s Orthodox-Jewish community filled the main sanctuary of Chabad of Aventura Sunday evening for a night of awareness and education about child abuse (CSA).
New Shluchim to Maryland
Rabbi Shneur Zalman and Mushka Minkowitz will be moving on Shlichus to the Chevy Chase area of Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Police Eject Rabble-Rouser from CB-9 Meeting
Police removed two members of Movement to Protect the People – a controversial local activist group – from a community board meeting this past Wednesday night and issued them summonses for disorderly conduct, after the latest in a long line of heated protests over zoning rules in the neighborhood.
Submit a Story
