New Engagement!
Zalmy Margolin (Norfolk, VA) and Brocha Kramer (Crown Heights)
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Info to be Menachem Avel Kalman Rothman
Mr. Kalman Rothman is sitting Shiva after the passing of his dear mother Mrs. Nora Rothman of Cleveland, Ohio. He will be sitting Shiva at his home, 1545 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Avenues]. Zmanim for Tefilos are: Shachris […]
Picture of the Day: Tefilin on the Run
Lubavitcher Bochur Mendy Wilansky helps a Jewish marathoner put on Tefilin as he runs alongside him at the Comrades Marathon in Durban, South Africa.
Video: City Bus Catches Fire on Utica Ave.
An MTA bus caught fire this afternoon near the intersection of Utica Ave. and East New York Ave. in Crown Heights. The blaze broke out in the rear of the bus, and had to be put out by firefighters who rushed to the scene.
New Engagement!
Tal Lewis (Milwaukee, WI) and Ronit Hadari (Toronto, Canada)
Jewish Soldiers Honored on 70th D-Day Anniversary
On Sunday, June 8, 2014, seventy years after the D-Day landing, several hundred members of the Jewish community of France met at the cemetery in “Omaha Beach”, Normandy. 149 Jewish soldiers are buried there. The traditional ceremony was held to honor the memory of Jewish soldiers killed as they landed to fight the Nazis in June, 1944.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Shterny (nee Sarfati) Wolff (Crown Heights)
Friendship Circle Volunteers Saluted in Five Towns
On Wednesday, May 28, The Friendship Circle of the Five Towns, an organization that pairs volunteers in the community with children with special needs, celebrated an ‘evening of Friendship’ to honor and recognize its members.
Video: Israel Is Our Homeland
Reuven Rivlin, former Speaker of the Knesset and President-elect of Israel as of this morning, is a Jersualemite with ties that go back for generations. His ancestor, Rabbi Hillel Rivlin, a relative of the great Vilna Gaon, came to Ottoman Palestine 73 years before the first glimmerings of political Zionism.
Baby Boy!
Yosef and Nechama (nee Chein) Lewis (Crown Heights)
One-Bedroom Apartments for $2,700!?
The cost of renting apartments in Crown Heights continues to soar to dizzying heights, making the routine payment of bills a monthly struggle for all but the very well-to-do in our community. However, even those who have grown accustomed to this trend were shocked to learn the price tags on units of a brand-new development on Eastern Parkway: a whopping $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom apartment and $3,700 for a two-bedroom!
New Engagement!
Chaim Antian (Crown Heights) and Chani Malasky (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday, at 274 Kingston Ave.
[between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Montreal Students Awarded for 78,000 Lines by Heart
Many years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe was asked what he would like his Chassidim to give him on the 11th of Nissan as a birthday present. The Rebbe responded that he would like people to add in learning Torah, in both the Nigleh (i.e. the Mishnah and the Talmud) and in Chassidus (i.e. Tanya).
New Engagement!
Nachum Klar (West Orange, NJ) and Sarah Dahan (Long Beach, CA)
Venetian Pop Art Comes to Crown Heights
The Creative Soul Gallery of Crown Heights has announced the grand opening of its first solo art show, featuring the powerfully vibrant works of Italian artist David Ariel de Guglielmi.
Knesset Elects New Israeli President
Israel’s parliament on Tuesday elected its former speaker Reuven “Rubi” Rivlin to be the country’s 10th President, a mainly ceremonial post that he’ll take when current President Shimon Peres‘ term ends in July.
