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Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum: Chaplain, Major, Rabbi
Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum describes the path that has led him to his role as director of the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland as sheer “divine providence.”
‘Day of Judaism’ Marks Chief Rabbi’s 50th Birthday
Thousands of Jewish residents of Moscow gathered in the Marina Roscha neighborhood for a ‘Day of Judaism,’ marking the 50th birthday of Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar.
Picture of the Day: Bar Mitzvah at a Wedding
While filming a wedding in Miami, CJ Studious employee Mendel Mish learned that one of his fellow photographers, Jared, was Jewish and had never put on Tefilin in his life. Mendel helped him wrap up right then and there, making the event a double Simcha – a wedding and a Bar Mitzvah.
Camp Closes Two Weeks Before Summer
Less than two weeks before it was set to begin, Camp Gan Israel of Morristown, NJ, one the largest Chabad day camps in North America, sent out a notice to all its staff and campers that they will not be opening this summer due to insurmountable budget constraints.
From Days Gone By: Peres Learns B’Chavrusa
Outgoing Israeli President and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres is seen in this photo studying Gemara with a Chavrusa during a visit to the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Lod in 1984. Yesterday morning, MK Reuven Rivlin (Likkud) was elected by the Knesset to replace Peres as Israel’s head of state.
Baby Girl!
Motty and Chanel (nee Deitsch) Lipskier (Crown Heights)
Chidon, Tanya Ba’al Peh Awards and Auction in a Day
Grades 5-6 of Oholei Torah had a triple event day – which included a Chidon Pirkei Avos, Tanya Ba’al Peh awards and a Chinese Auction.
New Engagement!
Zalmy Margolin (Norfolk, VA) and Brocha Kramer (Crown Heights)
Info to be Menachem Avel Kalman Rothman
Mr. Kalman Rothman is sitting Shiva after the passing of his dear mother Mrs. Nora Rothman of Cleveland, Ohio. He will be sitting Shiva at his home, 1545 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Avenues]. Zmanim for Tefilos are: Shachris […]
Picture of the Day: Tefilin on the Run
Lubavitcher Bochur Mendy Wilansky helps a Jewish marathoner put on Tefilin as he runs alongside him at the Comrades Marathon in Durban, South Africa.
Video: City Bus Catches Fire on Utica Ave.
An MTA bus caught fire this afternoon near the intersection of Utica Ave. and East New York Ave. in Crown Heights. The blaze broke out in the rear of the bus, and had to be put out by firefighters who rushed to the scene.
New Engagement!
Tal Lewis (Milwaukee, WI) and Ronit Hadari (Toronto, Canada)
Jewish Soldiers Honored on 70th D-Day Anniversary
On Sunday, June 8, 2014, seventy years after the D-Day landing, several hundred members of the Jewish community of France met at the cemetery in “Omaha Beach”, Normandy. 149 Jewish soldiers are buried there. The traditional ceremony was held to honor the memory of Jewish soldiers killed as they landed to fight the Nazis in June, 1944.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Shterny (nee Sarfati) Wolff (Crown Heights)
Friendship Circle Volunteers Saluted in Five Towns
On Wednesday, May 28, The Friendship Circle of the Five Towns, an organization that pairs volunteers in the community with children with special needs, celebrated an ‘evening of Friendship’ to honor and recognize its members.
Video: Israel Is Our Homeland
Reuven Rivlin, former Speaker of the Knesset and President-elect of Israel as of this morning, is a Jersualemite with ties that go back for generations. His ancestor, Rabbi Hillel Rivlin, a relative of the great Vilna Gaon, came to Ottoman Palestine 73 years before the first glimmerings of political Zionism.
