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JJ Eleff (Clevland, OH) and Basha Freedman (Surfside, FL)
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New Engagement!
Mendel (ben Sholom) Rosenfeld (Zurich, Switzerland) and Zeldi Lipsker (Reading, PA)
L’chaim will be Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
New Engagement!
Binyomin Lubin (Los Angeles, CA/London, England) and Shoshi Chernick (Toronto, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
8:00pm: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Jacobson
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 11 tonight, Sunday, March 30th (28 Adar II) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Choosing Our Battles: Sibling Rivalry, Women’s Rights, and Bettering Our Spouses.”
Taking It to the Next Level on New York’s Bowery
As soon as Micah Timen found out that tickets were on sale for the “Miracle on the Bowery” event, he bought one. And so, he spent Thursday night, March 6, celebrating Chabad House Bowery, which serves New York University and other area universities, their alumni and friends.
Melbourne Mourns the Passing of Ezzy Kestecher OBM
On Sunday 28 Adar II, a large crowd of family, community members and numerous friends attended the Levaya of Aaron Ezriel (Ezzy) Kestecher OBM, at the Melbourne Chevra Kadisha, who tragically passed away last week on Chof Hey Adar II at the age of 28 years in Melbourne Australia.
Gown Gemach to Cater to the Plus-Sized
Mazal Tov!! She is engaged! Everyone is so excited! The Chosson and Kallah buy their respective Kapota and gown. The jewelry, the music, and the flowers are taken care of. But then comes the headache – if the mother or the sisters are plus-sized, where are they supposed to look for the beautiful gowns that will reflect their joy in this simcha?
Woman Hit by Stray Bullet in Crown Heights
Early Shabbos morning, at about 5:00am, a non-Jewish woman was walking along Eastern Parkway near Bedford Ave. in Crown Heights when she was hit by a stray bullet.
Weekly Living Torah: A Mikvah for Whom?
Rabbi Moishe Engel was among the Shluchim in Long Beach, California, who dreamed of opening a kosher store or starting a Hebrew school to help boost the community’s Jewish infrastructure. They were astonished when a call arrived from the Rebbe’s office with a blessing for a new Mikvah.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Zlata Esther Sharfstein, 53, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing Friday of Zlata Esther Sharfstein, OBM, of Crown Heights. She was 53 years old. Levaya times updated.
Admor’s Son Reviews ‘Schneersohn Collection’
The son of the Rebbe of Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok of Jerusalem was in Moscow for a brief visit Thursday, which he utilized to visit the disputed ‘Schneersohn Collection’ currently being housed at the Museum of Tolerance in Russia’s capital.
NYPD Gets Oversight with First Ever Inspector General
An official who oversees Washington D.C. police has been named the first ever inspector general of the New York Police Department.
Joy in London as Rabbi Sudak Returns to Shlichus
During the annual Kinus Hashluchim in early November, 2013, the worldwide Chabad community was dismayed to hear the news that Rabbi Nachman Sudak, head Shliach to the UK, had suffered a serious heart attack.
Tearful Colleagues Mark Gedalia Greenzayd’s Shloshim
Last night, the students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Morristown, NJ gathered to mark the Shloshim since the passing of their colleague Hatomim Gedalia Greenzayd, OBM, of Vinnitza, Ukraine, who was tragically killed in an accident on Kingston Ave. last month.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe standing outside 770 seeing off a group of visitors, circa early 1960s.
Shabbos at the Besht: Baby Einstein
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier will lead a discussion on the topic – Baby Einstein: Why are we taught the entire Torah before being born, if we are then made to forget it.
Merciful Discipline – Accessing The Kohen Within
The laws of Tzara’at—the biblical skin disease that affected gossipers and slanderers in ancient times, rendering them ritually impure – contain an intriguing anomaly. On the one hand the well-versed sage, not necessarily a Kohan (priest), is empowered to analyze the skin condition to determine whether or not it is Tzara’at. On the other hand, only a Kohen can actually render a person impure. That is to say, regardless of the expert’s opinion, one is not ritually impure until a Kohen utters the words, “You are impure.”
