Is Mother’s Day one day or every day? What do Frum Jews do to celebrate Mother’s Day? Is Mother’s Day a Jewish concept or a made-up secular holiday. Join Moshe Kravitsky as he journeys around Flatbush for TheCoolJew.com to get answers to all these questions.
This Pesach Sheini, Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights invites all women of the community to join its volunteers, families of patients and friends of the organization on a group trip to the Ohel, where they will unite in prayer for the health of the members of our community who so desperately need our prayers.
A crowd of some 300 strong gathered in Essex, UK, last week for “Celebration 30,” paying tribute to Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin MBE and his wife Devorah for their 30 years of shlichus and community service.
The Released Time program is gearing up in a very big way for this year’s great parade. Hundreds of Jewish public school children and their Released Time teachers are in high-gear and driven to really make this year’s Lag Ba’omer Parade an unforgettable one, as it’ll be the last time Lag Ba’omer coincides with a Sunday in four years.
Last week, over 700 people participated in the ‘Jewish Spirituality’ lectures delivered by Chabad couple Rabbi Eyal Riess and his wife Mrs. Nathalie Riess of Tzfat. The lectures were held in several Jewish communities of South Florida: Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Jupiter and more.
The Keren Avraham Eliezer Camp Fund – in memory of Hatomim Avremi Goldman HYD – hosted a Chinese Auction in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights on Sunday, with hundreds in attendance. At the event the lucky winners of some 80 fabulous prizes were drawn. Winners in the Extended Article!
If there was a Guinness World Records category for the most women ever baking challah at once, then those participating in an upcoming event in Ontario, Canada, would definitely be in the running.
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 15 tonight, Sunday, May 11th (11 Iyar) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Infidelity, the Art of Prayer and the Working Woman.”
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to live in League City, Texas. But it doesn’t hurt.
Shmuli Benshimon (Montreal, Canada) and Shternie Sputz (Crown Heights)
Last week the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa headed by Dr. Joseph and Devorah Caytak celebrated 30 years of service to the Ottawa Jewish community.
What can we learn from the story of the Shidduch that Terry Spiers, the UPS driver made? One reader shares four positive lessons he learned from last weeks sensational story.
Amid the “Victory Day” celebrations in Moscow on May 9th, 69 years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar led a delegation of Jewish WWII veterans and members of the local Jewish community to the Red Square to participate in the celebrations.
At 6:30 this morning the parents of young children awoke to the sounds of their child screaming, to their horror they discovered that their three-year-old son had fallen from the window of their 3rd floor apartment.
Daphna Beerdsen, a Dutch Jewish woman living in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, was found slain in her apartment along with her 19-month-old daughter on April 28. Rabbi Bentzion Butman, Shliach to Cambodia and a close acquaintance of the deceased, spoke to the media about Daphna’s unique positive character and the community’s “incredible loss.”
Mendel Teleshevsky (Melbourne, Australia) and Rochel Parnas (Crown Heights)
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