Mrs. Chana Sharfstein of Crown Heights wrote the following poem, which she titled ‘My Pure Daughter,’ as a eulogy for her dear daughter Zlata Esther (“Zlati”), OBM, who passed away this past Friday at the age of 53.
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Last Thursday evening, close to a thousands members of the Jewish community of greater Atlanta gathered at the Chabad Center of North Fulton to mark the Shloshim of beloved Shlucha Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, who tragically passed away one month ago.
It’s past 11 o’clock at night at the Chabad House in Kathmandu, Nepal, and a calm breeze passes through the Jewish center’s courtyard. Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz is wrapping up a Torah class he has been giving to 30 Israelis, and a few more sit about chatting. Although a serene quietness envelopes this Himalayan Chabad House, it is less than a week before Passover and Lifshitz still does not have all the supplies necessary to ensure that Kathmandu’s iconic Seder – along with three others held in other parts of the country – can take place.
Close to 200 members of the Folsom, CA Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to celebrate the completion of a brand new Sefer Torah, which will make its home at the local Chabad House, led by Rabbi Yossi and Goldie Grossbaum.
Last Thursday some 120 people gathered in the hall of Chovevei Torah for a special event: BizTalk 14. The latest installment of Crown Heights Young Entrepreneur’s series of networking events, BizTalk gave community members the chance to learn from fourteen different successful business-men and women as well as to network with each other.
Five Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of Montreal in honor of Yud Alef Nissan, marking the Rebbe’s 112th birthday.
Darkness enveloped the five members of the Hike 4 Friendship team as they sat together in the Grand Canyon’s Cave of the Domes. It was Day Two of the hike, and inside the cave was a group of twenty five Boy Scouts. Having all turned off their flashlights, a unique serenity surrounded them deep in the dry cave.
Adam, a young Jewish man, recently graduated university with a major in Philosophy. Yet through all his studies the thing he longed for always seemed slightly out of reach. In search for what he couldn’t find in the pedagogical world of theories he grabbed a backpack and headed East for Rishikesh, India, and sought out the advice of a renowned yogi.
Rabbi Yochanan Gordon, Shliach to Australia’s Tasmanian Island, puts on Tefilin with a Catholic priest whom he discovered is actually Jewish.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Mazal Tov Benhiyoun (Albo) OBM, long time resident of Crown Heights and direct descendent of Rabbi Yosef Albo, the Baal Ha-lkarim. She passed away Tuesday afternoon at the age of 99.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Acharei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the appropriate reaction to an overwhelming world?
Hersh and Fraidy (nee Kagan) Loschak (Glassboro, NJ)
A group of Bochurim dig with shovels to prepare for the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of 770 in 1988. Can you identify anyone in the picture?
Leah is the stereotypical young entrepreneur: ambitious, smart, and hard working. Realizing that Crown Heights had room for a nice place for parents to buy fashionable clothes for their children at competitive prices, Leah founded Emma’s Children’s Boutique in the heart of the neighborhood to fill the niche.
In honor of the coming holiday of Passover, 3,500 of the neediest Jewish children across the Former Soviet Union are now receiving special clothing packages in the mail.
According to a report by the Anti Defamation League, attacks on Jewish residents in New York City tripled in 2013 over the previous year.
Yisrael Yanover (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Chaviva Korenblit (New York, NY)
L’chaim tonight, Tuesday at Lubavitch Yeshiva Ocean Parkway Shul
841-853 Ocean Parkway
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