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Sefira Music Video: Chabatzkapella!
Beri Weber, a rising star in the world of Jewish music, has just released this instrument-free hit single for the final days of Sefira, titled: Chabatzkapella! The song is a modern twist on the Niggun Talmidei HaTzemach Tzedek, popularly known today as the “Chabadsker Niggun,” with an accompanying video of Beri “behaving like a Lubavitcher.”
New Engagement!
Yaakov Nechamia Brum (Flatbush, NY) and Chaya Mushka Volkov (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.] at 8:30pm.
Twin Boys!
Shloimy and Miriam (nee Siegler) Lederman (Hollywood, FL)
Boruch Dayan Ho’emes: Mrs. Bashe Shuchat, 76, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chaya Bashe Shuchat, OBM, wife of Reb Kalman Shuchat, OBM, a Crown Heights resident for many years. She was 76 years old.
New Engagement!
Jesse (Yehuda Leib) Kaufman (Jacksonville, FL/CH) and Chani Witkes (Crown Heights)
New Facility for 4,000 Students at FSU
In terms of Jewish life, Florida is hotter than ever. And that applies to the student situation as well.
Op-Ed: Who Defines Lubavitch Education?
The following op-ed was written by a Lubavitcher mother, who shares her thoughts after a frustrating experience signing up her young child for his first year of school.
Court: Head Shliach’s Lawsuit Can Go Forward
Rabbi Berel Shemtov, head Shliach of Michigan, won a small victory in a state appeals court last Thursday, when the judges overturned a lower court’s dismissal of his lawsuit against the Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, led by Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg. The lawsuit has been reinstated and can now go forward.
Knesset to Honor Lubavitcher Rebbe
In an unexpected move, the Israeli Knesset voted this morning to dedicate a session to discussing the life and legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on the day marking 20 years since his passing.
Guatemalan Town Threatens to Expel Its Jews
A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion, reports the JTA. Approximately 30 Jews live in San Juan La Laguna, in the state of Solola, in a population of under 10,000.
New Jewish Cemetery Dedicated Near Russian Capital
A unique ritual was performed in the town of Novomoskovsk on the outskirts of Moscow last week, with the consecration of a new Jewish cemetery on a plot of land donated for the purpose by a local philanthropist.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, May 29, for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Girls Enjoy First Ever SibClix Shabbaton
What do 5 girls from California, Florida, New York and Arizona have in common? They are all sisters of children with special needs who are growing up on Shlichus, and over Lag Ba’omer weekend they got a chance to meet each other for the first time.
First in 20 Years: Oholei Torah Group Portrait
Over 1,800 students, from pre-school all the way through Shiur Daled Zal, stood in front of the Oholei Torah educational complex for a group portrait this morning.
Video: Belgian Jewish Community Demands Protection
CNN’s Nic Robertson reports on the Jewish community’s fears after a deadly shooting spree in Brussels, Belgium, interviewing local Chabad Shliach Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
From Days Gone By: Rabbi Yaakov Zuber, HYD
Rabbi Yaakov and Rebbetzen Zlata Zuber (standing third and fourth from the right) at a dinner benefiting the Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Boston, circa late 1940s. Rabbi Zuber, a devout Lubavitcher Chosid, escaped the Soviets and the Nazis, only to be brutally beaten to death on the streets of Boston in 1953.
