A Chabad Mitzvah Tank joined the annual Memorial Day Parade in Long Beach, NY. The addition to the parade, which takes place in front of the Long Island town’s city hall, was arranged by Chabad of the Beaches (AKA BACH Jewish Center), under the leadership of Rabbi Eli and Beila Goodman.
After nearly 10 months of dedicating themselves to children with special needs and the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, close to 250 young women gathered at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights for an evening of recognition and appreciation.
40 years ago, Rabbi Elimelech and Chaya Sarah Silberberg packed up their lives and the first two of their 10 children to, as the rabbi recently put it, “bring light to West Bloomfield, Michigan.” They were a couple on a mission, Shluchim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. And what began in 1974 as a handful of families gathering to pray in rented space has grown into the Sara and Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center (BCTC) of West Bloomfield.
Two Jewish brothers wearing yarmulkas were attacked near a synagogue in the Paris area on Motzei Shabbos. The assault came hours after a deadly shooting spree that left four dead at the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
Levi Treitel (Montreal, Canada) and Leba Muchnik (Crown Heights)
A seven-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after she narrowly avoided being run over by a car while riding across the street on her scooter. The frightening incident occurred at about 4:30pm yesterday, Sunday, on the corner of Albany Ave. and Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights.
The graduating students of Oholei Torah’s Shiur Daled Zal, who will be going on Shlichus next year to various Yeshivos and Chabad institutions around the world, posed for a group portrait with their teachers and Mashpi’im outside 770 yesterday.
Mrs. Faige Broner will be sitting Shiva after the passing of her mother, Jean Rosenberg, OBM, at 2616 Ave X in Sheepshead Bay until Tuesday night, after which she will continue Shiva at 773 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] in Crown […]
Alina and Tatiana, both from the city of Omsk in Siberia, are the grand winners of the first historic annual ‘Darkeinu Olympic’ Jewish Heritage Quiz, which took place earlier this month at the JCC of Moscow and was attended by representatives from 36 different Jewish schools from seven different countries of the former Soviet Union.
Marking their first year of service to the local Jewish community, Chabad of East Las Vegas – or Chabad in the Desert – welcomed two new Sifrei Torah, along with two beautiful new cases for their older Torah’s. This coincided with their first anniversary dinner attended by over 300.
Zalman and Rochel’le Wuensch (Crown Heights)
This weeks edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 18 tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “What Defines a Lubavitcher?.”
There was communal joy and celebration, with a little dancing thrown in for good measure, at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library near Troy, NY Sunday with the completion of the hand-written American Jewish Heritage Torah scroll.
Rabbi Chaim Miller, compiler of the Gutnick Chumash and other popular works, has written a complete biography of the Rebbe, chronicling his entire life in vivid detail from 1902 until 1994 and beyond.
For years, Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm, wife Leah and their five young children were accustomed to having house guests — a lot of house guests. The couple’s home on 17th Street in Boulder was the home base for Chabad at the University of Colorado, where CU students engaged in Shabbat dinners, social gatherings and study sessions each week.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 26, for Memorial Day.
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