He’s the good looking, buoyant 12 year old Nepalese boy who greets visitors to Katmandu’s Chabad House with a huge smile: “Hi I’m Bim, the boy from Beit Chabad,” he offers happily. He’s also quick to provide unsolicited bits of useful information, like candle-lighting time on Friday, or that Shabbos is not out until three stars are spotted in the sky.
Hundreds of community members and distinguished guests, headed by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, celebrated this Sunday the 130th anniversary of the grand Synagogue of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The festive event opened with the inauguration of a new Torah scroll, dedicated by Mr. Piaksel in memory of his parents.
Moshe and Chanie (nee Hurwitz) Vogel. (Crown Heights)
Mendel Korf (Delray Beach, FL) and Shiffy Wasserman (Thornhill, Canada)
On Monday, Oholei Torah Mesivta hosted Rabbi Yacov Barber, Shliach and Dayan in Melbourne, Australia, who addressed the students on the Halochos and Minhagim of Pesach.
Chabad of Mineola, Long Island, directed by Rabbi Anchelle Perl, conducted a model Pesach Seder for several Jewish members of the community, who wished to lead their own Seder at home but did not know how.
Folli Tesler (Crown Heights) Shira Vanderveen (Tzfas, Israel)
Educational Institute Oholei Torah of Crown Heights has announced the honorees for its upcoming 58th Annual Dinner, which will be held Tuesday, June 10 (12 Sivan).
In Celebration of the 25th of Adar, birthday of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, Beis Yaakov-Ohel Sarah of Flatbush held a beautiful assembly honoring the Rebbetzin. The event began with inspiring stories and videos, describing the Rebbetzin’s humility and modesty and infusing the girls with a genuine sense of being proud Bnos Yisroel.
Educators from both Cheder at the Ohel and the Shluchim Online School participated in an important and innovative program regarding child abuse in the frum community. The program took place in Crown Heights and also – for the online school teachers – on the Internet.
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, along with his lieutenants and other officials, hosted leaders and activists of Brooklyn’s several Jewish communities for a pre-Passover security briefing.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel ben Menucha Rochel, a two-year-old boy who recently underwent a serious procedure and still needs our prayers.
The Orthodox Jewish community and Jewish music fans in particular are mourning the death of Reb Dovid Werdyger, OBM, talented singer, pioneer in the recording of Jewish music and father of the ‘King of Jewish Music’ Mordechai Ben David.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
In two separate incidents this week, pedestrians were struck and injured at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.
Choli Rivkin (Crown Heights) and Shevi Rosenberg (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
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