Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel HaKohen ben Devorah Shifra, a young father who is undergoing critical surgery this afternoon.
Kids at the Gan Meorot preschool in Cordoba, Argentina, combine education with entertainment in the form of a Jewish history lesson about the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, coupled with painting.
Burgeoning Argentina Preschool Sets Sights on Future
Gisella Friedman’s story mirrors the typical Jewish experience in Cordoba, Argentina. Her family crossed the Atlantic Ocean around the turn of the 20th century to become gauchos, South American grassland folk known for farming and raising cattle on the pampas, the fertile Argentinian lowlands, on colonies established by the largess of Sir Moses Montefiore and Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
Tri-Valley Chabad Gets New Home
Chabad of the Tri-Valley in Pleasanton, California officially has a new home. After nine years of using rooms in various facilities around the area, the Chabad center moved into a 4,000- square-foot building.
J Weekly
New Engagement!
Chaim Salomon (Crown Heights) and Katy (Shoshana) Vickers (Lakeland, FL)
Israeli Foreign Ministry Opposes Plan to Consider Chabad Shlichus as IDF Service
After the Shaked Committee (AKA Equal Burden of Service Committee) decided that 100 volunteers of the Chabad Lubavitch movement will be considered “civilian service” volunteers – and their service will count toward Hareidi IDF enlistment targets – they face strong opposition from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which declared today that the proposed arrangement would not be legal.
Arutz 7
Crown Heights Tenants Rally Against Landlords
Some tenants in Crown Heights are rallying for better rights. On Union Street, tenants say the new owner of their apartment building, BCB Properties, bought the building last year and is now trying to push them out.
News 12
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Danny Moscowitz, OBM
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, OBM, head Shliach to the state of Illinois and board member of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch. He was 59 years old. Update: Levaya information added.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Wednesday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday, March 5, for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Video: A Glimpse of Hope in Ukraine
As opposing forces in Ukraine continue to clash, a new video released by TorahCafe.com offers a glimpse of a Higher Force at work in Dnepropretrovsk.
Op-Ed: Tiny Flea Rises Up Against Mighty Eagle
A week ago, when a private letter from Rabbi Ezra Schochet, addressed to the Beis Din of Johannesburg and Chabad Representative Rabbi Yossi Goldman, was leaked to CrownHeights.info, calling it “prohibited and unacceptable” for any Chabad Rabbi to allow Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to speak in their synagogues, I didn’t give it much thought.
by Yaacov Behrman
Ukrainian soldiers march through Kiev.
Yeshiva Students Being Drafted.. in Ukraine
Forget the IDF; Yeshiva students now how to worry about being drafted into the Ukrainian Army. Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities received draft notices to report to the Ukrainian army draft center, according to a report in Maariv.
Kehot to Reprint Reb Levik’s Manuscripts
This summer, on the 20th of Menachem-Av, Kehot will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, of blessed memory.
Photo Gallery #2: Uforatzta in Times Square
The colorful postcard marketing the 6th Annual CTeen Shabbaton in New York showcased a “PhotoShopped” image of the shabbaton and Jewish superstar Alex Clare advertised on Manhattan’s jumbotrons and billboards. Never would the 1,000 shabbaton participants from over 110 communities around the world have dreamt that this would be a reality at the climax of the three-day shabbaton during the Havdallah ceremony in Times Square.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Harav Hachosid Rabbi Aryeh Leib Avrohom Yaakov Scheiner, OBM, of Brighton, Massachusetts. He was an educator and was devoted to the Rebbe's Mivtzoim.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Leib Scheiner OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Harav Hachosid Rabbi Aryeh Leib Avrohom Yaakov Scheiner, OBM, of Brighton, Massachusetts. He was an educator and was devoted to the Rebbe’s Mivtzoim.
Photos: INN, Shturem.net.
Education Minister Praises Chabad Schools
Israeli Deputy Minister of Education Avi Wortzman visited a unique school affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement last Tuesday, and came away highly impressed.
Arutz 7
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R. Tzvi Ostrozynski, 60, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Tzvi Ostrozynski, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights. He was 60 years old. Update: Levaya and Shiva times added.
New Engagement!
Nachman Rivkin (Tampa, FL) and Mussi Vogel (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Tuesday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
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