Photos: Kinus Hashluchim 5775 Gets Underway
Registration for Kinus Hashluchim 5775 opened today, Wednesday at 1:00pm. Shluchim arriving in Crown Heights stopped by the JCM to register and pickup their Kinus ID badges.
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Photos by Benams
Utah Rehab Center Gets Kosher Kitchen
Shouts of “Mazel Tov” followed the ribbon cutting on a new, fully functioning kosher kitchen Wednesday at the Heritage School, a residential treatment center for teens just off University Avenue near the mouth of Provo Canyon in Utah.
Provo Herald
In Wake of Synagogue Attack, Rebbe Video Goes Viral
In the hours following the barbaric murder of four Jews and a Druz police officer in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, Mendel Gourarie and Levi Treitel were shaken, like so many others around the world. Working at JEM, they discussed the most appropriate response. “On a day like today,” they decided, “everyone’s crying. Let’s hold the strong message for a day or two.”
Photos by Meir Alfasi - Shturem.net
Shluchims First Stop: The Ohel
Hundreds of Shluchim from around the world have already arrived in New York for the annual Kinus Hashluchim, and many made their first stop at the Ohel.
Baby Girl!
Nochum and Leah Kurinsky (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)
Op-Ed: “They Heard Such Amazing Things, But They Don’t Think It’s Shayech”
CrownHeights.info received the following op-ed form a Shidduch-aged girl who is frustrated that parents of eligible boys keep turning her down for reasons that have nothing to do with her – nor with what should matter to the prospective Bochur.
New Engagement!
Moshe Angyalfi (Leeds, England) and Toby Wilansky (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!
Berel Schildkraut (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Mussie Alpern (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Mourners at the funeral of Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Levine at Har Menuchot in Jerusalem. Inset: Rabbi Kalman Ze'ev Levine.
Kansas City Mourns a Son Slain in Shul Massacre
“Our Talmudic scholar in Israel”—that’s how Bernie and Joan Levine of Kansas City referred to their son, according to friend and neighbor Rabbi Yitzchak “Itche” Itkin, co-director of Chabad on the Plaza in Missouri.
Wedding: Hackner – Sinclair
Pictures from the wedding of Leibel Hackner (Crown Heights) and Sharon Sinclair (Sydney, Australia), which took place last Thursday night at the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
Videos: Mivtzoim Done Right
An Israeli tourist visiting Pittsburgh came across a couple of young Lubavitcher Bochurim doing Mivtzoim last Friday afternoon. Their warmth, sincerity and joy touched the man, who filmed the encounter and posted the videos to his Facebook page under the title “Ashreinu Sheyesh Lanu Am Kazeh” (How lucky we are to have a nation like this).
Rabbi Yossi Jacobson Headlines Telshe Yeshiva Dinner
Renowned Chabad lecturer and writer Rabbi Yossi Jacobson was the keynote speaker at an honorary dinner hosted by the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mumbai Terror Victims Sue Pakistan for $688M
Nine American and Israeli victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks have demanded a compensation of $688 million from the Pakistan-based perpetrators of the terror assault, including the chiefs of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
India West
Yochanan Lowen
Lawsuit Seeks to Shutter Chasidic Schools in Quebec
Yochanan Lowen, 36, a former member of the Montreal Chasidic community, is suing the Quebec government for not rigorously enforcing its educational curriculum standards on private Chasidic schools, whom he calls ‘illegal’ and blames for his ‘substandard’ education.
Triplets! 2 Girls 1 Boy!
Shaya and Rachel (nee Dank) Feldman (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!
Isaac Rosenfeld (Los Angeles, CA) and Mima Vanounou (Los Angeles, CA)
Baby Boy!
Zalmi and Esti Katz (Crown Heights)
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