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.
Levi and Shterny (nee Sarfati) Wolff (Crown Heights)
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.
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.
Yosef and Nechama (nee Chein) Lewis (Crown Heights)
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!
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.]
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).
Nachum Klar (West Orange, NJ) and Sarah Dahan (Long Beach, CA)
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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