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.
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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.
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.
Michoel Procaccia (Crown Heights) and Rebeca Serur (S. Paulo, Brazil)
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.
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, director of Chabad of Milford, MA, took to the streets with his four sons Monday afternoon on a mission to free some fire hydrants.
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.
Mendy and Chani (nee Demercur) Brennan (Crown Heights)
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.”
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.
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).
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 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.
A Pikesville neighborhood in Baltimore County, MD, is up in arms over a proposed Chabad synagogue that would be built on a three-acre property.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of 5-year-old Adele Biton, HYD, who was critically injured two years ago in a vehicular accident that occurred as a result of a rock-throwing attack by Palestinians in the West Bank.
Jerusalem, the “city united together” according to King David’s Psalms, is truly replete with daily and hourly acts and displays of kindness, brotherhood, and unity. Certainly very high up on this list was the Friendship Circle of Central Jerusalem’s annual “Day of Enrichment and Empowerment” for its 89 dedicated volunteers this past Sunday.
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