YG-Melbourne Poses for Year-End Group Portrait
The students and faculty members of Yeshiva Gedolah of Ausralia and New Zealand gathered outside their Melbourne campus to pose for a year-end group portrait.
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Biography of the Rebbe Hits Amazon’s Top 100
It has not even been published yet, but Rabbi Joseph Telushkin‘s latest book, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History has hit Amazon’s list of its 100 best selling books.
Video: Shliach Interviews Crown Heights Assemblyman
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Karim Camara, whose district includes most of Crown Heights, for a TV talk show called ‘The Jewish View.’
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Avrumie and Racheli (nee Dadon) Safranovitz (Hillside, NJ)
Rabbi Pinny Marozov visiting the oldest man in America—Alexander Imich, age 111, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Photo: Chabad.org.
Oldest Man in the World, a Jew, Dies at 111
Alexander Imich, a Jewish holocaust survivor and the oldest man in the world, passed away yesterday at the age of 111.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Riva Raskin, 84, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rivkah (Riva) Raskin OBM, who was among the founders of the Lubavitch Community in London. She passed away early Monday morning at the age of 84.
YG Melbourne Hosts Communal Kinus Torah
The Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah – Melbourne) hosted a communal Kinus Torah on Sunday, the tenth of Sivan. The Kinus was convened in conjunction with Shavuos, as per the Rebbe’s directive that a Kinus be held on, or immediately after, each Yom Tov.
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Yitzchak Barber (Crown Heights) and Leah Rapoport (Toronto, Canada)
Photos: Hundreds Enjoy Family Fun Day and Picnic
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents turned out for the 71st Precinct’s 20th annual Family Fun Day and Picnic, which featured free rides, hot dogs and hamburgers, as well as the chance to meet with police officials.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid Rabbi Yitzchock Tzvi Eisenbach OBM, from the senior Lubavitcher Chassidim of Jerusalem. He passed away on the second day of Shavuot at the age of 80.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Yitzchok Eisenbach, 80, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid Rabbi Yitzchock Tzvi Eisenbach OBM, from the senior Lubavitcher Chassidim of Jerusalem. He passed away on the second day of Shavuot at the age of 80.
8:00pm: How to Interact with Unfrum or Non-Jewish Family Members
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.
Seventh Graders Complete Entire Seder Mishnayos
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.
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Levi and Chani (nee Ehrentreu) Rosenfeld (Toronto, Canada)
Shluchim Discuss Anti-Semitism with EU Commissioner
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.
The new Arena da Amazonia built with capacity to hold 46,000 people. Inset: Rabbi Arieh and Dvorah Lea Raichman, and three of their four children.
Chabad in Heart of Amazon Readies for World Cup Fans
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.
Spain Offers Citizenship to Sephardic Jews
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.
Video: Mendy Pellin Solves the Shiduch Crisis
Chasidic Comedian Mendy Pellin offers a novel solution to the Shidduch Crisis in this stand-up comedy special.
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