While many in the Frum community may not have taken notice, many public and charter schools were closed yesterday while the United States commemorated Veteran’s Day. But the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, whose children mostly did have the day off from school, definitely took note.
After attending the Kinus Hashluchim, Rabbi Shlomo Amar the Sfardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, visited the Ohel and the grave of his teacher Rabbi Shlomo Matusof OBM a Shliach to Morocco who was one of the first Chabad Shluchim, before returning to Israel.
Distinguished Rabbonim, Askanim and the Talmidim of Yeshivas Nefesh Dovid in Monsey for young men with hearing loss joined together to participate in a historic Siyum HaShas, conducted by an alumnus of the Yeshiva – Rabbi Isser Lubecki, who is currently serving as a Chabad Shliach in Paris, France, along with his wife and child.
Over 1,000 Jewish women from the Greater Boston area and an immeasurable amount of good will, good thoughts, and community spirit graced the Mega Challah Bake that celebrated unity and gratitude to G-d.
This past Rosh Hashana, Mr. Martin Mendelsohn went downstairs to the recreation room of Evergreen Court Home for Adults in Spring Valley, NY, to listen to the shofar. On Tuesday afternoon he passed away peacefully in his sleep. To date he has not been buried.
A group of Rabbonim visited the Viznitzer Rebbe in Crown Heights last night. Among the group was the mazkir Rabbi Leibel Groner and Rabbi Nachman Yosef Twersky.
An increased presence of police around Crown Heights led many residents to question whether it is in response to a threat to the Jewish community or the neighborhood. The 71st Precinct’s Community Affairs Unit released a statement of reassurance that this is not the case.
With over 400 booths featuring products from around the globe, cooking demonstrations, cookbook signings, exhibits, samples and much more, Kosherfest continues to be a huge draw, both for those in the kosher food business as well as those in related industries. Event organizers estimated a turnout of 6,000 visitors at the two day trade show, held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Meadowlands Exhibition Center in Secaucus, NJ.
Sholom and Goldie (nee Engel) Schochet (Crown Heights)
Susan Blauner is the Director of Operations for the Saving Lives Drug and Alcohol Coalition and the Executive Director of Prevention Outreach for Evolve Treatment Centers. She was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project at the Chabad of the Valley in Encino, CA, in 2011.
Students and their mentors pose for a group photo at Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, circa 1952. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
A campaign to raise funds for a security system has been launched in the wake of a terrifying nighttime burglary in the home of Chabad Shluchim in Cancun, Mexico.
London’s Heathrow Airport issued an apology to a Chabad Shliach today, Wednesday, after he was told by an airport employee to remove his shoes inside the airport’s multi-faith prayer room.
Yisroel and Mushky (nee Golomb) Kirsh (Crown Heights)
Oholei Torah, whose alumni make up a majority of the Shluchim, held a “meet and greet” stand during the days of the Kinus.
Two new pedestrian plazas are set to replace two sections of road adjacent to Empire Boulevard in 2017, according to a proposal from the Department of Transportation.
Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan knows the lay of the land in a land where knowing was dangerous. He did what needed to be done even when doing was verboten. A crackerjack on the KGB playing fields, he learned early to tell the good from the bad, to dodge informers and keep one step ahead of the enemy. Today, his years of hard experience in the chokehold of Soviet Russia behind him, he evinces a largeness of spirit and a deep self-knowing.
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