Memebers of the Jewish community in Copenhagen, Denmark identified the victim in the shooting at the Krystalgade Synagogue as Dan Uzan HY”D, 37, who was a volunteer standing guard while a Bas Mitzvah was taking place inside.
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This humorous production by the five Rodal sisters – all Shluchos in different parts of the world – highlights the stark difference between young women who just arrived on Shluchus and their more experienced and seasoned counterparts, in the way they approach various aspects of their day-to-day Shlichus.
Fitting 1,200 Rebbetzins in to a single photo is no small feel, and to superimpose them on the footprint of 770? Leave it to Chaim Perl the official photographer to pull it off.
Dovi and Russi (nee Woonteiler) Wachtel (Crown Heights)
1,200 Shluchos posed for their annual group photo. Changing it up, this years photo was taken on Motzai Shabbos in the Eden Palace in Williamsburg where the Shluchos enjoyed a Melava Malkah.
Participants of the Kinus Hashluchos gathered Friday morning at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, praying for their families, communities and fellow Shluchos.
Mendel and Devorah Leah (nee Kasowitz) Heidingsfeld (Manchester, England)
A public university set against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, the University of Colorado Boulder holds the number one spot nationally for its atomic/molecular/optical physics program. Twenty two hundred of its 30000 students are Jewish, but CU’s distance from major Jewish centers means that Jewish life is less accessible to them.
Three people were wounded, one critically, in a shooting outside of a synagogue in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark late Saturday night. This incident follows another shooting in a café where one man was left dead.
Binyomin and Sarah Rivkah Nemon (Crown Heights)
There is a school of thought that in order to bring close “alienated” Jews we must go to them with an abridged and reformed version of Torah. But others have tried this approach before them.
More than 1,000 people turned out Thursday night to hear former President Bill Clinton at a fundraiser for the Philip Berley Preschool of the Arts, a school run by the Chabad Center for Jewish Discovery, with five locations in Lower Manhattan that combines a solid foundation in both Judaism and the arts.
Shmuli and Sarochel (nee Davidson) Markel (Agoura Hills, CA)
Frigid temperatures and bone-chilling wind chills gripped the New York area on Friday, and meteorologists say it’s only going to worsen over the weekend, with some snow on Saturday and the coldest temperatures in 20 years before the weekend is over.
In honor of the visiting Shluchos, a baby and kids gear “pop up mall” is coming to Crown Heights on February 15th and 16th. The boutique Lullaby Baby store in Park Slope will offer huge discounts for Shluchos and to the Crown Heights community. Lullaby Baby will be joined by local vendors offering more sales: Wigs by Esther, Teela Skirts, Project 6, and Pelle NYC.
In the second shooting incident in as many days, a 19-year-old African-American girl was shot three times near the entrance to her apartment building on Maple Street and Kingston Ave. She was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where she remains in critical but stable condition. Police are investigating if this incident is related to the one that occurred in the same spot three days ago, when a Jewish man was robbed and shot by a thug wearing a ‘keffiyeh.’
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Levi Garelik will give an introduction to Hilchos Kidush Hachodesh, which are currently being learned as part of the 3-perokim cycle of the Rambam.
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