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.
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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)
It’s past 10 p.m. in Donetsk, Ukraine, and the streets are empty. The city’s public transportation system is silent—the trains and buses now cease operating at 8 p.m.—and most residents have shut themselves within their own homes. With masked men toting Kalashnikov rifles roaming the streets, the Jewish community of Donetsk finds itself praying for its safety and for the safety of all citizens in this eastern city near the border with Russia.
City workers recently painted a white line along Kingston Avenue, Crown Heights’ main artery and commercial hub, restricting traffic to one lane and leaving a few feet of empty space between traffic and the vehicles parked to their left.
Ari and Chanah Ainyah (nee Nerenberg) Kaufman (Los Angeles, CA)
Given their unique hardships, Jews in the former Soviet Union are especially deserving of G-d’s blessings, says the Rebbe to two women in their native Russian during dollar distribution, 28 Iyar, 5751 (May 12, 1991).
Yaakov Nosson Losh (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas R’ Y.Y.) Rabkin (Crown Heights)
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