Twin Girls!
Mendy and Chani (nee Demercur) Brennan (Crown Heights)
French City Names Street for Chabad Educator It Once Fought
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.”
New Torah Written for Healing Gaza War Veterans
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.
400 Gather in Miami to Combat Child Abuse
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).
New Shluchim to Maryland
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 Eject Rabble-Rouser from CB-9 Meeting
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.
Proposed Baltimore Chabad House Faces Opposition
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.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Adele Biton, 5, HYD
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.
Friendship Circle Empowers Special Needs Children in Jerusalem
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.
New Engagement!
Efi Manshari (Melbourne, Australia) and Sima Piperno (Los Angeles, CA)
Montreal Women Gather for Chof Beis Shvat
On the evening of Chof Beis Shvat, over 120 Lubavitch women gathered at Beth Rivkah in Montreal to remember Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. Everyone was seated in designated seating in order to facilitate getting to know new people.
Letter Calls on Beth Din to Keep out of Israeli Politics
With the fast approaching deadline to submit a party list for the upcoming Knesset elections, and a record high voter base needed to be elected. Pressure has been mounting on two small right wing parties to join forces.
Buffalo Remembers Beloved Educator
An overflow crowd of approximately 200 people gathered on Feb. 1 to honor the memory of Shaina Charitonow, who passed away two years ago at the age of 55. The memorial event for the second yahrtzeit took place at the Bais Haknesset Hagadol-Lubavitch synagogue in Buffalo, N.Y., where Mrs. Charitonow served as rebbetzin, and where her husband, Rabbi Shmaryahu Charitonow, is rabbi and director.
New Engagement!
Yoel Gewurz (Ramat Aviv, Israel) and Mushka Gold (Crown Heights)
Photos: IDF’s New Chief Offers Thanks at the Kotel
The newly appointed Chief of Staff of the IDF, Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, paid a visit to the Western Wall yesterday to offer prayers of thanksgiving for the miracles and successes in the recent Cast Lead operation in Gaza. He replaces Lt.-Gen. (res.) Benny Gantz.
Merkos Chairman Honored at Son of Shluchim’s Bris
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, the Rebbe’s Mazkir and chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, was honored as Sandek this past Thursday, 23 Shvat, at the Bris of Yakov (“Kovy”) Burston, the newborn son of Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, Shluchim to Orange County, New York.
Tonight: Shloshim in Honor of Mrs. Tova Weiss
A Shloshim gathering will be held tonight, Monday, marking thirty days to the passing of Mrs. Tova Gittel Weiss OBM. The event will be for women only and the family invites the community to attend.
