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.
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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.
Shmulik and Chashie (nee Vishedsky) Schneerson (Los Angeles, CA)
Menachem Mendel and Leah Rochel (nee Rubenstein) Simon (Crown Heights)
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.
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.
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.
Eli and Malky (nee Leider) Janowski (Crown Heights)
Hersh Meilach and Fruma (nee Lurie) Rosenfeld (Crown Heights)
Hundreds of men, women and children gathered in front of 770 Friday afternoon to participate in the Levaya of Mrs. Rivky Barber, OBM, a Shlucha from Melbourne, Australia who passed away early Friday morning.
A 14-year-old teenage boy opened fire on an MTA city bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant, fatally shooting a random passenger in the head.
Yaakov and Shaindel (nee Keselman) Siev
1738 President St. [between Utica and Rochester Aves.]
Shauli and Chanie (nee Nissim) Zohar
658 Montgomery St. [corner Kingston Ave.] Apt. #2F
Zalman and Goldy Sandhaus
433 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Shayke and Shani (nee Rosenberg) Posner
580 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] Apt. #504
Berel and Mirel (nee Salek) Prager
858 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Efraim and Chanie (nee Ladaew) Fuzailov
675 Empire Blvd. [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. #6M
Hersh Meilach and Fruma (nee Lurie) Rosenfeld
615 Lefferts Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Shalom and Cherry New
625 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and Kingston Aves.]
Efraim and Chanie (nee Ladaew) Fuzailov (Crown Heights)
There are at least 500 Jewish students studying at Grenada’s St. George Medical School, but until recently, they were left to fend for themselves when it came to Jewish life. For many, that meant putting a hold on their Jewish identity.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of yet another soldier in the Rebbe’s army, Mrs. Rivkie Barber, OBM, of Melbourne, Australia. She was 49 years old. Update: Levaya info added.
The following open letter was written by Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz, whose wife Rashi tragically and suddenly passed away last week. It is addressed to the global family of Lubavitch Chasidim – and the Crown Heights community in particular.
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