Twin Girls!
Yoel and Elisheva (nee Kaplan) Gansburg (Tzfat, Israel)
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe during a Yud Aleph Nissan Farbrengen, circa 1975. Next to the Rebbe is a pile of many birthday gifts he received.
Los Angeles Principal Receives Prestigious Award
Teachers and students at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles were called for an assembly on Monday. There was some anticipation as they waited to hear who among their teachers would be awarded the Milken Family Foundation Jewish Educator Award.
Karduner Returns for Motzai Shabbos Kumzitz
After a packed house the past three years, Breslover musician Yosef Karduner is returning to Crown Heights for a fourth performance. Also performing is Yishai Lapidot and Yellow Red Sky.
Baby Boy!
Mendel and Dvora (nee Maister) Lakein (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Rabbi Mashash Visits Lubavitch Headquarters and Ohel
Exclusive: Rabbi Ariel Mashash, leader of one of Paris’s large Jewish communities and son of the late Chief Rabbi of Paris Rabbi David Mashash OBM, visited Lubavitch World Headquarters, the Rebbes library and the Ohel.
Bizarre Break-in, Man Released After Smashing Minivan Window
This was a car break-in the likes of which Shomrim never experienced before. A man was apprehended after smashing the window of a minivan, only police later discovered that he had the owner’s permission to do so.
New Engagement!
Zalmy Refson (Leeds, UK) and Zelly Ceitlin (Montreal, Canada)
Man Sentenced to 4 Years for Firebombing Paris Supermarket
Two years ago, four people were injured in a firebombing of a Kosher supermarket located in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Paris. Recently the arsonist, a 27-year-old ambulance driver, was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.
Violence Overwhelms Donetsk; Danger for Remaining Jews
As heavy rocket and artillery fire pounded the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk last week, teachers at the city’s Ohr Avner Jewish Day School rushed their students into a room in the building’s center, where they silently waited for the barrage to end. Classes were dismissed early that day, and the 20 children in attendance—a small fraction of the amount the school had before the war—were sent home for the rest of the week.
New Yeshiva Testament to Germany’s Jewish Revival
In some significant way, the opening this month of a kollel, a rabbinical seminary in Hamburg, Germany, harks back to its glory pre-war days when the city was graced by distinguished rabbis. It is yet another of many signs of the recent rise of Jewish life in Germany, much of it due to the Chabad centers—nearly 20 of them—across the country.
10,000+ Miami Jews Reached by LEC Students
The Elementary School boys of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami have made history, and for a very good cause.
Annual ‘EnerJew’ Seminar Takes Place in Minsk
Last week, one hundred and fifty young activists, coordinators, professional mentors and rabbis, from ten cities in four different countries of the former Soviet Union, attended the five-day annual general seminar of the FJC’s new and innovative youth movement – EnerJew, which took place in the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.
Legendary Baalas Chesed’s Matzeiva Unveiled
The matzeiva unveiling for Mrs. Miriam Slater, OBM, a longtime member of the Crown Heights community and beloved Baalas Chesed, who passed away last week at the age of 60, took place yesterday, Tuesday.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Reb Shmuel Azimov, 69, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov, OBM, the head Shliach to Paris since 1968, who was much beloved by the Jewish community he served and helped revitalize. Rabbi Azimov spearheaded the ‘French Jewish Revolution,’ which saw close to 100,000 French Jews become Baalei Teshuvah over the past five decades. He was 69 years old.
