Alexander Imich, a Jewish holocaust survivor and the oldest man in the world, passed away yesterday at the age of 111.
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With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rivkah (Riva) Raskin OBM, who was among the founders of the Lubavitch Community in London. She passed away early Monday morning at the age of 84.
The Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah – Melbourne) hosted a communal Kinus Torah on Sunday, the tenth of Sivan. The Kinus was convened in conjunction with Shavuos, as per the Rebbe’s directive that a Kinus be held on, or immediately after, each Yom Tov.
Yitzchak Barber (Crown Heights) and Leah Rapoport (Toronto, Canada)
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents turned out for the 71st Precinct’s 20th annual Family Fun Day and Picnic, which featured free rides, hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as the chance to meet with police officials.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid Rabbi Yitzchock Tzvi Eisenbach OBM, from the senior Lubavitcher Chassidim of Jerusalem. He passed away on the second day of Shavuot at the age of 80.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 20, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled Family Diversity: Unfrum or Non-Jewish Family Members.
Seventh grade students from boys’ schools in Crown Heights completed learning the entire Mishnayos Seder Noshim, part of a program called Mishnas Gavriel – in memory of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivky Holtzberg HY”D.
Levi and Chani (nee Ehrentreu) Rosenfeld (Toronto, Canada)
A delegation of the European Jewish Association (EJA), headed by its General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin; Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, Chief Rabbi of The Netherlands; Rabbi Avi Tawil, director of the European Jewish Community Centre; and Rabbi Mendel Pevzner of the European Jewish Youth Association, met with the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou, in order to address Rabbi Margolin’s recent call to establish a pan-European taskforce in order to annihilate anti-Semitism, following the recent terror attack in Brussels.
Maintaining Jewish life in the heart of the Amazon is anything but simple for Rabbi Arieh and Dvorah Lea Raichman, who settled in Manaus, Brazil, in 2009. Like their counterparts all over the Portuguese-speaking country, they will be using their know-how and resources to accommodate the confluence of Jewish visitors who will descend on their city during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which is slated to take place in 12 cities scattered across Brazil from mid-June to mid-July.
On Friday, Spain’s royal cabinet approved a bill allowing Sephardic Jews, who descend from Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula over 500 years ago, the right to Spanish citizenship.
Chasidic Comedian Mendy Pellin offers a novel solution to the Shidduch Crisis in this stand-up comedy special.
Chaim Yisroel and Mussy (nee Gurary) Wilhelm (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Rivky (nee Gurary) Geisinsky (North Miami Beach, FL)
Yitz Levin (New Haven, CT) and Zissa Levin (Miami Beach, FL)
Sruli and Mushkie (nee Bronstein) Hershkop (Crown Heights)
