Police Officers Talks Safety with Head Start Girls
The NYPD’s ‘Crime Dog’ visited the young students of Beis Rivka Head Start Tuesday afternoon to talk safety and whom to call in case of an emergency.
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From Days Gone By: Shlichus to War-Torn Europe
Rabbis Zalman Posner and Mendel Baumgarten embark on the Queen Elizabeth ship on their way to war-ravaged Europe, where they were sent by the Frierdiker Rebbe to visit the survivor Jewish communities following the Holocaust. Can you identify anyone else in the photo?
Video: MBD Electrifies Crown Heights
Mordechai Ben David, ‘the king of Jewish music,’ thrilled the crowd gathered at the Oholei Torah ballroom earlier this month for the annual Keren Simchas Choson V’Kallah Melave Malka and chinese auction.
Baby Boy!
Baruch and Chaya (nee Levilev) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1313 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Saluting the Crown Heights JNet Volunteers
It was an evening of appreciation all around. More than 100 JNet volunteers gathered at the Jewish Children’s Museum on Sunday night for an event in their honor that featured a welcome by Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a keynote address by Rabbi Levke Kaplan, and a delectable dinner.
Today: First Yahrtzeit of ‘Uncle Yossi’
Today is the first Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yosef Goldstein, OBM. A veteran educator, Rabbi Goldstein inspired generations of young and old with his stories and parables.
Video: Don’t Resist the Temptation
In anticipation of their first annual Split the Pot Raffle, which is just one week away, the Camp Emunah Scholarship Fund has released a couple of cute video clips to encourage people with their ticket purchasing decisions.
Ukraine Shluchim Ask Israeli Govenment for Protection
The head of a prominent European Jewish group requested Tuesday that the Israeli government urgently send security personnel to Ukraine in order to protect the Jewish communities there, which have been targeted during the political unrest gripping the country.
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New Online Trainer Makes Reading Megillah Easier
One of the four mitzvahs of the Jewish holiday of Purim is to hear the reading of the Megillah, a scroll on which Mordechai and Esther wrote the amazing turn of events that brought about the Purim miracle in Persia in 356 BCE.
Amid Upheaval, Ukraine Jewish Students Gather
Amid the political turmoil that has seen the ousting of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich from power, and continued threats by anti-Semitic actors against the Jewish community, several dozen Jewish students from around the country gathered at the Chabad campus in Zhitomir, western Ukraine, for an inspiring and uplifting Shabbaton.
Choni G. Performs to a Sold-Out Crowd in Melbourne
Last week Beis Chabad Ohel Devorah in Melbourne, Australia hosted a concert featuring Choni G. with a sell-out crowd of over 150 in attendance. A new Shliach to the Chabad House was also introduced at the event.
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Shmuly and Devorah Leah Simon (Manchester, UK)
Photos: Over 2000 Silently Mourn at Gedalia’s Levaya
Over 2000 gathered in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, to attend the levaya of Gedalia Greenzayd OBM.
New Engagement!
Shlomo Greene (Rochester, MN) and Chana Kornfeld (Seattle, WA)
Students Get Eye-Opening Examination of Ancient Artifacts
What do you get when you bring together a rabbi, a museum curator, a Ph.D. candidate and two-dozen college students? A tour of Jewish history that includes ancient clay figurines, fragments of medieval Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and a good dose of Talmudic wisdom.
Community Board to Vote on Rezoning of Crown Heights
Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 25, Community Board 9 – which encompasses the southern and largely Jewish half of Crown Heights – will gather for their monthly meeting. Among other items on the agenda, the board will vote on whether a study should done on the impact of a zoning change of the Jewish area of the neighborhood from R-2 to 2-6.
Video: Learn a Moshiach Shiur with Gedalia
By all accounts Gedalia Greenzayd OBM was a special person who had a quiet charm and magnetism along with a zeal for learning. In the Morristown Yeshiva he would occasionally give a Shiur in Moshiach and Geulah which were recorded and made available online.
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