In Celebration of the 25th of Adar, birthday of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, Beis Yaakov-Ohel Sarah of Flatbush held a beautiful assembly honoring the Rebbetzin. The event began with inspiring stories and videos, describing the Rebbetzin’s humility and modesty and infusing the girls with a genuine sense of being proud Bnos Yisroel.
Educators from both Cheder at the Ohel and the Shluchim Online School participated in an important and innovative program regarding child abuse in the frum community. The program took place in Crown Heights and also – for the online school teachers – on the Internet.
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, along with his lieutenants and other officials, hosted leaders and activists of Brooklyn’s several Jewish communities for a pre-Passover security briefing.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel ben Menucha Rochel, a two-year-old boy who recently underwent a serious procedure and still needs our prayers.
The Orthodox Jewish community and Jewish music fans in particular are mourning the death of Reb Dovid Werdyger, OBM, talented singer, pioneer in the recording of Jewish music and father of the ‘King of Jewish Music’ Mordechai Ben David.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
In two separate incidents this week, pedestrians were struck and injured at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.
Choli Rivkin (Crown Heights) and Shevi Rosenberg (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
On Sunday, March 30, Congregation F.R.E.E. of Brighton Beach celebrated the installation of a new stained-glass dome with a lavish reception and dinner for the Russian-speaking Jewish community.
Levi Ezagui (Daytona Beach, FL) and Tzivie Marazow (Seattle, WA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Shmuly Tzfasman (Crown Heights) and Dina Perl (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Metzora. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is holiness?
Menachem and Faygie (nee Klein) Andrusier (Crown Heights)
A group of students of the newly established Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in 770 pose for a group photo prior to their departure on Merkos Shlichus, circa late 1940s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
From harvest to packaging, this video takes us through all the steps involved in the making of Shmurah Matzah for the Yomtov of Pesach.
The logo of a local hip-hop group has been showing up as graffiti around Midwood, a largely Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Many residents are up in arms, as they say the logo resembles a swastika.
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