Posing a group picture with thousands of Rabbis is no small feat, and organizers of the Kinus Hashluchim are hard at work making sure it happens. This year they have once again partnered with Chaim Perl, a talented local photographer who has taken the reins in organizing this amazing photo.
On Thursday, November 6, at around 7:15pm, two teenagers standing on the 2/3 subway platform at the Franklin Avenue station in Crown Heights were approached by a group of nine suspects who demanded they hand over their property.
Avremy and Chanie (nee Katz) Lerner (Crown Heights)
Shliach to Gloucester County, NJ, Rabbi Avi Richler poses with his good friend Donald Norcross (D) at a celebration following the latter’s swearing-in ceremony not long after he was elected to represent New Jersey’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Behind the walls of an unassuming single-story building on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles, you will find dozens of smiling faces and hear the sounds of young children engrossed in learning. Listen a little closer and you will uncover a world filled with Hebrew alphabet, davening and Torah study. It is the new Nagel Jewish Academy, a unique Jewish educational program based on the philosophy “Jewish education for every Jewish child.”
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yaakov Dov Hakohen Katz OBM, eldest of the Roshei Yeshivos, and longtime Rosh Yeshiva of the Central Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in Kfar Chabad. He was 85 years old.
Levi and Mushka (nee Weiser) Pinson (Crown Heights) )
Marking its 4th successful year, a Kumzitz style concert featuring Yosef Karduner and Yishai Lapidot brought out hundreds this past Motzai Shabbos.
In an op-ed published originally by the Jewish Daily Forward, Crown Heights attorney and community activist Eli Federman lays out why he believes Federal Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner overstepped his bounds in his Halacha-quoting decision striking down Chabad Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein’s lawsuit against Northwestern University.
Zalmy and Chaya (nee Sarfati) Rabkin (Crown Heights)
In a feature article published yesterday, the Wall Street Journal profiled Lubavitcher comedian Mendy Pellin and his rise in the world of entertainment.
Yesterday, Thursday, Mr. Yosef Yitzchok Popack and Reb Mendel Levin met with a delegation of Oholei Torah principals, lead by Rabbis Yosef and Sholom Rosenfeld, at the Eastern Parkway Campus. A group of Talmidim also welcomed Mr. Popack and shared with him a Dver Torah.
Rabbi Yossi Jacobson joined the Bochurim of Mesivta Lubavitch of Monsey for a Farbrengen Thursday night, in honor of Chof Cheshvan, the Rebbe Rashab’s birthday.
This past week, hundreds of Crown Heights boys from grades 5 through 8 voluntarily got together from 7:00 to 8:00 PM for an extra hour of Torah Study.
Rabbi Yaakov Barber, a Chabad Shaliach from Melbourne, Australia, came to Israel recently with members of his community on a visit of solidarity with the people of Israel. Together with a delegation from Chabad’s Terror Victims Project, they visited the families of the terror victims who were violently murdered in Israel in the last weeks by incomprehensible, senseless stabbings and by cars used as weapons. And they went to see those who were injured in these terror acts and are in the hospital.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Schochet will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘What the world needs to understand.’
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