New Engagement!
Chaim Salomon (Crown Heights) and Katy (Shoshana) Vickers (Lakeland, FL)
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Tanya Printed at Massive Protest Against IDF Draft
A portable Tanya printing press was on hand at the ‘Million Man Atzeres’ against the planned IDF draft of Yeshiva students that took place in Jerusalem yesterday.
Arabs Savagely Beat Young Lubavitcher in Paris
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported.
Hundreds Celebrate with Chabad of West Hempstead
On Thursday, February 13, Chabad of West Hempstead hosted their 5th annual dinner at The Garden City Hotel in Long Island.
