Supporters of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s new Sensory Play Room in Crown Heights met this week to view the completed facility. Children of the some of the donors had a chance to play in the renovated space which is well equipped with brand new, state of the art equipment and toys. The room is designed to stimulate the senses of children, offering them a relaxed and calming environment to play, learn, create and let their imaginations run wild.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Keny Deren, OBM, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, matriarch of a large family of Chabad Chasidim and Shluchim worldwide. She was 83.
Aizik and Blumi (nee Lazar) Rosenfeld (Crown Heights)
Chanoch Henoch and Chaya Mushka (nee Goldstein) Junik (Chicago, IL)
This past Shabbos, Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad of Southwest Florida, called up an unfamiliar face in Shul for an Aliyah. When he asked the man his Hebrew name, he replied Levi Yitzchok ben Chaim Yosef Dovid.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke fiercely in defense of Israel Monday, accusing critics of anti-Semitism, vowing to stand with the country, and drawing heckles from two legislators who eventually stormed out of his speech to the Knesset.
Documents from the Nuremberg Trials recently found in a flea market in Israel are to go on display at the Chabad Jewish Educational Center in Berlin.
This past Sunday, Jan 19th (18 Shvat), My Extended Family held its 2nd event under the leadership of Rabbi Yoseph Vigler at Mayan Yisroel of Flatbush. My Extended Family is a new division of Mayan Yisroel, and was created to become a support group for frum single mothers and their children in the 5 boroughs.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, January 21, to faciitate snow preparation. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
A winter storm headed for our area could dump up to 10 inches of snow in New York City and even more on parts of Long Island, bringing along with it a blast of arctic winter weather that is expected to freeze the region for nearly a week.
It seems that there has been much written about Tznius over the years and, in most cases, it has to do with skirt length, head covering and various rabbis professing to know the thoughts of G-d. And yet, with all that has been written, so few seem to fully “get” what Tznius is.
This past Rosh Hashanah, a horrific accident at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. left two female Tishrei visitors severely injured. The accident was subsequently blamed on an eastbound traveling SUV that tried to complete a left turn onto Kingston Ave., only to be t-boned by a sedan traveling westbound along the parkway.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Shira Levin, OBM, the 2-year-old daughter of a Chabad family in Safsufa, a small town in northern Israel.
Over the past few months the KosherTown Supermarket has undergone a major renovation and refresh, with the addition of a charming touch: the aisles are now named after Crown Heights’ streets and Avenues.
Choni and Kayla (nee Perlstein) Kazen (Montreal, Canada)
The Ahavas Chesed Blood Drive scheduled for Tuesday afternoon and evening has been canceled due to the weather.
Last week, the popular Chabad lecturer Mrs. Nathalie Riess gave a series of seminars and workshops on Taharas Hamishpacha for groups of young female tourists from Brazil and Argentina in Tzfas, Israel.
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