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.
Baby Boy!
Yosef and Nechama (nee Chein) Lewis (Crown Heights)
One-Bedroom Apartments for $2,700!?
The cost of renting apartments in Crown Heights continues to soar to dizzying heights, making the routine payment of bills a monthly struggle for all but the very well-to-do in our community. However, even those who have grown accustomed to this trend were shocked to learn the price tags on units of a brand-new development on Eastern Parkway: a whopping $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom apartment and $3,700 for a two-bedroom!
New Engagement!
Chaim Antian (Crown Heights) and Chani Malasky (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday, at 274 Kingston Ave.
[between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Montreal Students Awarded for 78,000 Lines by Heart
Many years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe was asked what he would like his Chassidim to give him on the 11th of Nissan as a birthday present. The Rebbe responded that he would like people to add in learning Torah, in both the Nigleh (i.e. the Mishnah and the Talmud) and in Chassidus (i.e. Tanya).
New Engagement!
Nachum Klar (West Orange, NJ) and Sarah Dahan (Long Beach, CA)
Venetian Pop Art Comes to Crown Heights
The Creative Soul Gallery of Crown Heights has announced the grand opening of its first solo art show, featuring the powerfully vibrant works of Italian artist David Ariel de Guglielmi.
Knesset Elects New Israeli President
Israel’s parliament on Tuesday elected its former speaker Reuven “Rubi” Rivlin to be the country’s 10th President, a mainly ceremonial post that he’ll take when current President Shimon Peres‘ term ends in July.
Photos: Chabad Chasidim Spend Shavuos in Mezhibuzh
Among the hundreds of Chasidim who traveled to Mezhibuzh, Ukraine for Shavuos, to spend the Yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov near his burial place, was a group of Chabad Chassidim led by Rabbi Nachman Yosef Twerski of Crown Heights and Rabbi Chaim Sholom Deutsch of Jerusalem.
New Engagement!
Menachem (Gucci) Gochafi (Crown Heights) and Laya Zavdi (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Thursday at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel
306 Albany Ave. [between Lincoln Pl and Eastern Pkwy]
New York Post Pays Tribute to the Rebbe
The New York Post featured an extended tribute to the life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in the paper’s June 7th edition, in honor of his upcoming 20th Yom Hilula early next month. In a feature titled ‘How one rabbi modernized Judaism and began a movement,’ staff writer Gary Buiso explores the life and legacy of the Rebbe, and the movement he led to bring Torah Judaism into the 21st Century.
Where Chabad’s Lost Boys Go to Find Themselves
The Bais Menachem Youth Development program, a Chabad Yeshiva for ‘at-risk’ youth in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is the subject of this intriguing feature article published today by the JTA, written by Uriel Heilman.
In Crown Heights, Once Torn by Race Riots, a Friendly Game of Soccer
The World Cup may be days away, but in Brooklyn, the Crown Heights Cup game on Sunday may be almost as important. In some ways, it is more important.
New Engagement!
Mayer Gurkov (Wayne, NJ) and Chani Minsky (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Thursday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
