New Engagement!
Michoel Groden (Mequon, WI) and Chava Leiba Schulman (Ann Arbor, MI)
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Peretz Yehuda Sontag, 50, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Peretz Yehuda Sontag OBM of Monsey, NY. The tragic news comes after thousands of volunteers dedicated a week of tireless searching for the man who was reported missing last week. He leaves behind a wife and seven children.
2 Sunday Night Lechaims!
Avi Gutlaizer (Crown Heights) and Rochel Greenbaum (Crown Heights/NMB, FL)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Moshe Meir Katz (Crown Heights) and Sara Leah Feldman (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
8:00pm: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Jacobson
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode Ten tonight, Sunday, March 23rd (21 Adar II) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Coping with Unspeakable Tragedy.”
Jews in Sports: Cultural Celebration in Our Backyard
While you were likely busy celebrating the holiday of Purim last week, the Village of Bayville, NY transformed one of its parks into an international celebration center last Sunday afternoon when the Israeli and Irish national lacrosse teams faced one another on Purim Day, this year coinciding with the eve of St. Patrick’s Day.
‘Loaves of Love’ Support Disabled Youth
When Zachary Friedberg was born 16 years ago, his parents were told not to have hope that he could achieve much in life or even survive to his teens.
Baby Girl!
Shmulik and Chashie (nee Vishedsky) Schneerson (Los Angeles, CA)
Baby Girl!
Menachem Mendel and Leah Rochel (nee Rubenstein) Simon (Crown Heights)
Four More Ukrainian Jews Enter the Covenant
Emotions ran high at the ‘Alumim’ educational campus in Zhitomir, Ukraine Wednesday, as four Jewish boys and men celebrated their entrance into the covenant of Avraham together with the local Jewish community.
Op-Ed: How I Learned to Stop Complaining and Love Yom Tov
Making Yom Tov requires a Jewish woman to be a frugal shopper, an adequate cook, an event planner, an astute student of Jewish law, and a gracious hostess. She needs to be all this while still being a wife, a mother, or often a career woman too. In short, making Yom Tov is an endeavor that requires a Project Manager.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Performance More Important
This week’s Living Torah video is a very interesting clip from a farbrengen with the Rebbe in the early ’80s: From the lively singing, including a choir from Morocco singing ‘Tzivot Hashem,’ to the fellow responding to The Rebbe’s comment that performance is more important then understanding.
Baby Boy!
Eli and Malky (nee Leider) Janowski (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Hersh Meilach and Fruma (nee Lurie) Rosenfeld (Crown Heights)
Hundreds Attened Lavaya of Rivky Barber, OBM
Hundreds of men, women and children gathered in front of 770 Friday afternoon to participate in the Levaya of Mrs. Rivky Barber, OBM, a Shlucha from Melbourne, Australia who passed away early Friday morning.
14-Year-Old Teen Shoots Random Stranger on MTA Bus
A 14-year-old teenage boy opened fire on an MTA city bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant, fatally shooting a random passenger in the head.
8 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Yaakov and Shaindel (nee Keselman) Siev
1738 President St. [between Utica and Rochester Aves.]
Shauli and Chanie (nee Nissim) Zohar
658 Montgomery St. [corner Kingston Ave.] Apt. #2F
Zalman and Goldy Sandhaus
433 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Shayke and Shani (nee Rosenberg) Posner
580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. #504
Berel and Mirel (nee Salek) Prager
858 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Efraim and Chanie (nee Ladaew) Fuzailov
675 Empire Blvd. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. #6M
Hersh Meilach and Fruma (nee Lurie) Rosenfeld
615 Lefferts Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Shalom and Cherry New
625 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and Kingston Aves.]
