Thousands of Jewish children from across the former Soviet Union rejoiced this week as the new school year opened successfully on the 1st of September at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish kindergartens and day schools in countries such as: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Young Mendel Minkowicz, whose mother Rashi passed away tragically and suddenly last winter, talks about the 18/18 campaign he initiated for a new Chabad Center in Alpheretta, Georgia, to be named Rashi’s Campus in his mother’s memory.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA opened its doors to more than just a school year. “As we continue to see an increase in enrollment in all departments, LYA staff mobilized over the summer to find space for new students and new classes in time for the opening of school”, commented Rabbi Noach Kosofsky, the school’s principal.
In what has been a hotly contested race, candidates Rubain Dorancy and Jesse Hamilton will face-off at the polls tomorrow, September 9th, for the Democratic Party nomination to represent district 20, which includes Crown Heights, in the New York state Senate.
A special summer camp for Jewish boys who are deaf, the only one of its kind in the world, recently concluded, with campers returning home inspired and exhilarated. The camp was conceived and directed by Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, who is himself deaf, and did not have the opportunity to attend such a camp when he was a child.
A gathering will be held tonight to commemorate the Shloshim of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, HYD, a Crown Heights resident who was brutally murdered on the streets of North Miami Beach while walking to Shul Shabbos morning.
In honor of Chai Elul, all are invited to participate in a learning campaign, with the chance to win big prizes. A project of JNet, the Chavrusa match-making organization, the campaign provides a Sicha of the Rebbe said on Chai Elul to be learned b’chavrusa, followed by a three-question online review.
This Wednesday, the 15th of Elul (September 10), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12 featuring arts and crafts, games and an amazing program. Buses will leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:45pm. Transportation will cost $3.
Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters today released a statement that, in contrast to a banner for Rubain Dorancy with a backdrop of the Kinus Hashluchim group portrait, they do not endorse political candidates and have not authorized use of the photo for his campaign.
Update: Dorancy Apologizes.
In recent years, beachgoers in Tel Aviv had been accustomed to an aerial campaign promoting Shabbos. A paraglider would soar up and down the Mediterranean coast on Friday afternoons announcing that week’s candle lighting time.
Berel and Rikal Pewzner (Grand Cayman, Cayman islands)
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.
