On Friday, the Australian Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development, Wendy Lovell, and Member Parliament for Bentleigh Elizabeth Miller joined families and Jewish community leaders at Bentleigh East’s Beis Menachem Community Centre to announce a $515,000 upgrade to the co-located Gan Gabi and Rivki Early Learning Centre.
Shmuel Cohen (Lakewood, NJ) and Basha Rochel Bongart (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Tuesday night at Bais Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
During his speech before the volunteers participating in the annual Masa Israel internship program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked the Lubavitcher Rebbe in his plea that upon returning to their countries of origin that they defend the state of Israel.
Sholom Dov Ber (Berry) and Gitty (nee Losh) Blachman (Monsey, NY)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 41, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Stinginess, Parents’ Obligation, Favoritism, Children Hurt by the System, The Politics of Kashrus, Peer Pressure, The Rebbe’s Igros (Pt. 2) and More.
New construction of a supermarket in the Polish-border town of Brest, formerly known as Brisk, today a part of Belarus, has left residents horrified, as the project has unearthed that many of the town’s homes and structures were built using recycled Jewish headstones left over from WWII.
Yossi Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) and Geulah Malka Hecht (Brentwood, CA)
Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, Chabad emissary to Los Alamitos, California is driving very, very carefully. In the back seat of his car is a box with over a dozen 32 ounce containers of fresh, hot chicken soup wrapped in hot pink bags, and he does not want them to spill as he navigates an unfamiliar part of town. The homemade soup was just cooked by Marcus’s wife, Bluma, at their Chabad House, and the rabbi is on his way to personally deliver the containers, one by one, to elderly community members, shut-ins and families in crisis.
Jewish revival in the former Soviet Union continued last week with the dedication of yet another Jewish Center in the in city of Krasnodar. In a spectacular event, the building dedication began with the completion of a new Sefer Torah, followed by dancing in the city streets and a lavish meal in the new Center.
Srulik and Mushka (nee Dahan) Hartman (Crown Heights)
Berel and Rivky (nee Shemtov) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Berel and Brocha (nee Katz) Lerman (Crown Heights)
Chaim and Chaya Mushka (nee Korf) Stern (Miami Beach, FL)
Like rising dough, the attendee list for Chabad of Georgia’s “Mega Challah Bake” just kept growing—so much so that organizers had to find a new location to accommodate the huge crowd of more than 1,000 women on Wednesday night.
Shmaryohu and Huvy (nee Levitansky) Hackner (Crown Heights)
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