Hundreds turned out for a very special and unique occasion, the completion of new Sefer Torah for the Friendship Circle of Crown Heights. The new Torah was dedicated by the Chein family in honor of their son Boruch Shneur.
Dozens of combat soldiers of the IDF’s recent Operation Protective Edge in Gaza participated in a Gala Party hosted by Chabad of Ashkelon.
Oholei Torah students lined the street in front of 667 Eastern Parkway, the home of the school founded by the husband of Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, OBM, for her Levaya. From there the Levaya proceeded to 770, where hundreds partook.
Yisroel Silverman (N. Miami Beach, FL) and Goldie Shachter (Hollywood, FL)
Lechaim tonight, Sunday at 547 Crown Street
[between Albany and Kingston Aves]
Zalman Shimon and Emunah (nee Meadvin) Wircberg (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 33, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: Being “Mekarev” the Opposite Gender (pt. 2), Music (pt. 2), religious incompatibility in marriage, invasive smart phones and unhappiness.
In April 1936, as Nazi persecutions were battering the Jews of Germany and active anti-Semitism was on the rise throughout Europe, the Jewish community of Montevideo, Uruguay, founded the “Inca Shul,” formally known as Asociación Religiosa Israelita Beis Hakneseth Harischona. It attracted community residents and, over the next decade, appealed to hundreds of Jewish families fleeing Europe.
Global News was recently at a Lubavitch wedding in Montreal’s Chabad of the Town, where they interviewed the groom, Levi Chayo, the bride, Mushky Krasnianski, and her father, Rabbi Moshe Krasnianski, in a 2-part feature which was aired locally.
Writing on the New York Times’ City Room Blog, Brooklyn resident Ellie Levi shared a moment she experienced while shopping in a Manhattan bodega last week: The vendor gave her a discount for dressing modestly.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, the wife of Reb Michoel Teitelbaum OBM, co-founder of Mossad Chinuch Oholei Torah. She passed away Shabbos afternoon at the age of 96. Levaya times added
Two years ago, The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn held its first ever “Family Hakofos” on Simchas Torah. So moved by that wonderful event the Chein family sought to dedicate a Torah in honor of their son to the Friendship Circle. The Siyum will take place this Sunday.
Some 500 people gathered on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday night for a candle-light vigil held for recently murdered journalist Steven Sotloff. News of his beheading at the hands of the ISIS terror group in Iraq was released on Sept. 2.
As dozens of Bochurim dashed off into the Kingston Avenue subway station for their weekly Mivtzoim trip, a rare sight caught their attention – a Chuppah in front of 770 on a Friday at noon.
Alex Clare is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter, with millions of fans all over the globe. But two and a half years ago, he was down to his last pennies and unable to pay his rent. Because he insisted on keeping Shabbos, the record label he signed up with fired him, and his career seemed doomed.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Klein will lead a discussion on the topic – A Time to Love, a Time to Hate: Does the Mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel apply to Reshoim?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe looking on during Hagbah, circa early 1960’s.
Yaacov Leib and Rivka (nee Gabay) Ringo (Montreal, Canada)
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