Growing up, Gershon Sandler was not interested in attending Jewish overnight camps. “I was very turned off by Judaism,” he said, recalling how he’d encountered people at his Conservative synagogue’s Hebrew school in northern New Jersey who preached about things they weren’t doing themselves.
U.S. Army Colonel Chaplain Jacob Goldstein helps a fellow soldier put on Tefilin for the first time in his life during a military exercise at the Ft. Hunter-Liggett Army Base in Central California.
To commemorate 20 years since Gimmel Tammuz, as well as the conclusion of the Shiva for head Shliach to the UK Rabbi Nachman Sudak, OBM, the Chabad community of London and Shluchim from the surrounding areas gathered in Stamford Hill for a grand Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah on Sunday, June 22.
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, this year marking the twentieth anniversary of the Rebbe’s histalkus, Anash and all Jews worldwide are invited to participate in a special learning campaign by JNet, with a chance to win great prizes.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Yossi Kamman (Crown Heights) and Chanie Teldon (Commack, NY), which took place Sunday night at Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights.
Ignite it and they will come. What began as small sparks of hope and determination in four young couples and a lone educator around a Crown Heights dining room table in November 2009, was celebrated on Sunday night, June 15th, by two hundred people around thirty elegantly adorned candle-lit tables in one of the newest venues in Brooklyn.
Avremel (ben Dayan LY) Raskin (London, UK) and Mushky Gordon (Melbourne, Australia)
Lechaim tonight, Monday at 554 Montgomery St.
[between New York and Brooklyn Avenues]
The Algemeiner, founded by Gershon Jacobson in 1972 and currently headed by Dovid Efune, honored two well-known journalists at its third annual Summer Benefit last week in New York City.
A black Mercedes burst into flames on East New York Ave. near the corner of Brooklyn Ave. in Crown Heights this past weekend. A bystander captured dramatic footage of the incident, which he shared with CrownHeights.info.
About 100 people joined The Friendship Circle of Alabama for its 2nd Annual Dinner honoring its teen volunteers at the Beit Ariel Chabad Center in Birmingham.
The parents of three yeshivah students kidnapped by terrorists in Israel said they were “deeply heartened” when they were presented with books containing more than 3,000 pledges of acts of kindness and prayer that have been received on a special web page created by Chabad.org.
Marking 20 years since Gimmel Tammuz, some 3,000 people filled up Eastern Parkway in front of 770 for an hour of videos of the Rebbe saying Sichos on the topics of Moshiach and Ahavas Yisroel.
Counselors, learning teachers and general staff members, who will be working at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY, met Sunday afternoon for a pre-summer meeting and orientation ahead of the upcoming summer season.
On his recent visit to Melbourne, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rishon LeTzion, visited the Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand.
A large group of rowdy teenagers set out on a course of menacing and harassment on Eastern Parkway, culminating with one pulling a knife on a Jewish man and threatening him. Meanwhile, two girls from the group accused a Jewish teen of threatening them with a gun.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 22, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class will feature a special edition answering many questions surrounding Gimmel Tammuz.
