New Engagement!
Moishe Gurewitz (Lyon, France) and Brocha Greenwald (Long Beach, CA)
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885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
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Conference Fosters Expertise for Friendship Circle
What can you do with a plain white sock, some cotton swabs, a swath of bubble wrap and a box of raisins? How can you make volunteering opportunities more meaningful for teenagers? What do parents of children with special needs require from an organization that provides programming for their youngsters?
From Days Gone By: Benny’s First Concert
In this photo from the late ’90s, a younger Benny Friedman puts on his very first concert while a Yeshiva student in Postville, Iowa. On the right-hand side, holding a wire, is Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, may he speedily be freed from imprisonment.
Baby Boy!
Moshe and Chani (nee Karasik) Holtzberg (Crown Heights)
78 New Cops Welcomed to Crown Heights
Two orientation sessions were held, one last Thursday and one this afternoon, to welcome 78 newly-sworn-in police officers assigned to the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights.
Chabad Mobilizes for Israeli Terror Victims, Soldiers
Over 120 rockets have fallen on Israel over the past 24 hours; Baruch Hashem, there were no casualties. All summer camp programs have been cancelled – the children and their parents must remain at home so that they are near shelters. It is a very anxiety-filled situation, never knowing when or where the next rocket will hit. One can feel the tension and fear everywhere, especially among the children.
Baby Boy!
Yossi and Malki (nee Lever) Rodal (Melbourne, Australia)
Baby Girl!
Tzemach and Mushky (nee Galatz) Aronow (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
60 Rockets Pound Israel in 1 Hour
More than 60 rockets were launched out of Gaza in one hour alone this afternoon, many of them landing deep inside Israeli territory. With the IDF authorized to mobilize 40,000 troops, many fear that Israel is on the brink of yet another full-scale war.
Parents Demand Ice Cream Truck Ban to Quiet Kids
A group of Park Slope mothers is demanding that the city ban the sale of ice cream in Prospect Park, in a bid to offset the inevitable tantrum when they tell their child they can’t have any.
Baby Boy!
Yankee and Binah (nee Lipkind) Teitelbaum (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 1703 President St. [between Utica and Rochester Aves.]
New Engagement!
Dovid Shapiro (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) and Rochel Rudovskaya (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine)
French Jews Switch from Public Schools to Private
Sarah Fitoussi, a mother of three living on the outskirts of Paris, speaks about her kids’ switch to a Jewish school in dramatic terms. Her children had been subjected to anti-Semitic abuse in their previous school and their recent move to a Chabad Jewish day school, something she hadn’t considered before, brought her relief and peace of mind. “The school didn’t just save our kids, they saved our entire family.”
Children Rally in Sydney for Gimmel Tammuz
Rabbi Zalmy Goldstein of Yeshiva College joined together with Rabbi Yehuda Straiton of Kesser Torah College to bring together some 80 children from around Sydney for a rally in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
Baby Girl!
Zalmy and Chanala (nee Lew) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Video: Achieving Your Dreams
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Pinchas. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one achieve his/her dreams?
Nearly 1,000 Gather to Reflect on the Rebbe
The room rang with applause. It was the encouragement of 500 or so people, who crammed the auditorium at Queens College’s Kupferberg Center for the Arts in New York City on Sunday night for the plenary session of the day-long program “Soul Encounters: A Journey of Connection, Reflection and Upliftment.” Attendees were enlightened and enthralled by Jewish leaders, educators and lecturers about the Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.
