Chabad emissary to Luhansk, Ukraine, Rabbi Sholom Gopin, who barely escaped the war raging between pro-Russian separatists and the military, says the recently struck cease-fire has done little to alleviate the suffering of the local Jewish community.
Yonason and Chaya (nee Zaetz) Reinitz (New Haven, CT)
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Harav Hachosid Reb Moshe Chaim Sapochkinsky, OBM, a senior and well respected member of the Montreal Lubavitch community, who served as the Rov of the Nusach Hoari Shul for over 60 years. He was 90 years old.
Returning home late one night last week, a young Lubavitcher father was accosted by two teenage thugs, one of whom pulled a gun on him as he was walking into his president street apartment building.
An event Monday evening will mark the official relaunch of Jewish Community Watch, an organization whose mission is to combat child abuse.
Yossi and Shaindy (nee Lawrance) Hayward (Crown Heights)
Baruch and iris Borodkin (Crown Heights)
Binyomin Adelman (Amherst, MA) and Chavie (bas Mordechai) Eckhaus (Crown Heights)
Lechaim Tuesday at 481 Albany Ave. [between Empire Blvd. and Lefferts Ave.]
Hundreds of families turned out for a Kosher Fair on Kingston Avenue. The fair included many kosher food vendors as well as a petting zoo, also a show featuring Uncle Moishe and the Small Wonders Puppet Theater entertained the kids.
An exhibition of paintings of Jerusalem by Chasidic artist Joel Gluck will open at The Betzalel Gallery in Crown Heights beginning today, Sunday.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 34, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: Mechanical Judaism, making Elul count, lip service, green with envy and intrusive smart phones (pt. 2).
A peculiar sight unfolded this Sunday afternoon in front of Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway. A number of Bochurim and volunteers from Chesed Shel Emes decked out in Hazmat suits and masks sifting through the mountains of trash bags in search of a lost pair of Tefillin.
In days gone by this magnificent building in the forests near Paris served as a getaway chateau for the family of King Louis XVI of France. Since the years following WWII, it served as the main building of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, located now in the Parisian suburb of Brunoy.
Oholei Torah’s elementary and Zal divisions saw some faculty changes for the new school year. A Mashpia and Magid Shiur were hired for Zal, and a new principal for grades 3 and 4.
Chabad Chasidim and students of Tanya are rejoicing this week with the release of the first chapter (19) of The Complete Tanya. This new edition of Tanya, published by the Kehot Publication Society, presents the Tanya text surrounded by three elements: a concise commentary by the Rebbe, references and glossaries, and an anthology of commentaries by the Rebbes of Chabad.
