France’s Deaf Jews Get Together for Purim Celebration
For the first time in France and likely the entire of Europe, a special Purim celebration was held for Jewish people who suffer from deafness.
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Massachusetts School Excited About the Future
A roller skating rabbi and hockey playing educational director are not the norm of what students see during a typical school day, unless you attend Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA.
‘Target of Opportunity’: New Film Documents Historic Blood Libel
Earlier this year, Chabad.org announced the launch of a special page dedicated to the Mendel Beilis case, the last major blood-libel trial of the 20th century. After several months of ongoing research, a new video documentary has now been released.
New Engagement!
Ezra Rosen (Lakewood, NJ) and Miri Lazarescu (Irvine, CA)
New Engagement!
Sholom Ber Haller (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Chaya Mushka (bas Elozar) Raichik (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Michoel Groden (Mequon, WI) and Chava Leiba Schulman (Ann Arbor, MI)
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Peretz Yehuda Sontag, 50, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the passing of Peretz Yehuda Sontag OBM of Monsey, NY. The tragic news comes after thousands of volunteers dedicated a week of tireless searching for the man who was reported missing last week. He leaves behind a wife and seven children.
2 Sunday Night Lechaims!
Avi Gutlaizer (Crown Heights) and Rochel Greenbaum (Crown Heights/NMB, FL)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Moshe Meir Katz (Crown Heights) and Sara Leah Feldman (Crown Heights)
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 Ten tonight, Sunday, March 23rd (21 Adar II) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Coping with Unspeakable Tragedy.”
Jews in Sports: Cultural Celebration in Our Backyard
While you were likely busy celebrating the holiday of Purim last week, the Village of Bayville, NY transformed one of its parks into an international celebration center last Sunday afternoon when the Israeli and Irish national lacrosse teams faced one another on Purim Day, this year coinciding with the eve of St. Patrick’s Day.
by Yossi Goldstein
Zachary Friedberg, 16, helps bake hallah for Loaves of Love, which is providing young disabled adults with employment.
‘Loaves of Love’ Support Disabled Youth
When Zachary Friedberg was born 16 years ago, his parents were told not to have hope that he could achieve much in life or even survive to his teens.
New Jersey Jewish News
Baby Girl!
Shmulik and Chashie (nee Vishedsky) Schneerson (Los Angeles, CA)
Baby Girl!
Menachem Mendel and Leah Rochel (nee Rubenstein) Simon (Crown Heights)
Four More Ukrainian Jews Enter the Covenant
Emotions ran high at the ‘Alumim’ educational campus in Zhitomir, Ukraine Wednesday, as four Jewish boys and men celebrated their entrance into the covenant of Avraham together with the local Jewish community.
Photo: Chabad.org
Op-Ed: How I Learned to Stop Complaining and Love Yom Tov
Making Yom Tov requires a Jewish woman to be a frugal shopper, an adequate cook, an event planner, an astute student of Jewish law, and a gracious hostess. She needs to be all this while still being a wife, a mother, or often a career woman too. In short, making Yom Tov is an endeavor that requires a Project Manager.
by Shoshanna Silcove
Weekly Living Torah Video: Performance More Important
This week’s Living Torah video is a very interesting clip from a farbrengen with the Rebbe in the early ’80s: From the lively singing, including a choir from Morocco singing ‘Tzivot Hashem,’ to the fellow responding to The Rebbe’s comment that performance is more important then understanding.
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