One of the four mitzvahs of the Jewish holiday of Purim is to hear the reading of the Megillah, a scroll on which Mordechai and Esther wrote the amazing turn of events that brought about the Purim miracle in Persia in 356 BCE.
Amid the political turmoil that has seen the ousting of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich from power, and continued threats by anti-Semitic actors against the Jewish community, several dozen Jewish students from around the country gathered at the Chabad campus in Zhitomir, western Ukraine, for an inspiring and uplifting Shabbaton.
Last week Beis Chabad Ohel Devorah in Melbourne, Australia hosted a concert featuring Choni G. with a sell-out crowd of over 150 in attendance. A new Shliach to the Chabad House was also introduced at the event.
Shmuly and Devorah Leah Simon (Manchester, UK)
Over 2000 gathered in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, to attend the levaya of Gedalia Greenzayd OBM.
Shlomo Greene (Rochester, MN) and Chana Kornfeld (Seattle, WA)
What do you get when you bring together a rabbi, a museum curator, a Ph.D. candidate and two-dozen college students? A tour of Jewish history that includes ancient clay figurines, fragments of medieval Judeo-Arabic manuscripts and a good dose of Talmudic wisdom.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 25, Community Board 9 – which encompasses the southern and largely Jewish half of Crown Heights – will gather for their monthly meeting. Among other items on the agenda, the board will vote on whether a study should done on the impact of a zoning change of the Jewish area of the neighborhood from R-2 to 2-6.
By all accounts Gedalia Greenzayd OBM was a special person who had a quiet charm and magnetism along with a zeal for learning. In the Morristown Yeshiva he would occasionally give a Shiur in Moshiach and Geulah which were recorded and made available online.
Hurricane Sandy left many victims in its wake. One of the buildings to succumb to the hurricane was The Chabad Neshama Center in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
The Levaya for Hatomim Gedalia Greenzayd, OBM, who passed away yesterday in a tragic accident, will be taking place tonight at 9:30pm in front of 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights.
A woman was in serious condition after she was shot by police on Saturday afternoon inside an apartment building, police confirmed.
Eilezer (ben R’ Motty) Gurary (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas R’ Yosef, OBM) Deitch (Crown Heights)
A number of police checkpoints have been spotted in Crown Heights over the past 24 hours, one of which is currently ongoing on Empire Blvd. between Kingston and Albany Avenues.
A synagogue firebombed in eastern Ukraine sustained minor damage. The firebombs hit the Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, located 250 miles southeast of Kiev, on Sunday night.
Rabbi Berry and Shayna Nash have been appointed Shluchim to Missoula, Montana where they will cater to the Jewish community and University of Montana students in Missoula, the Bitterroot Valley and NW Montana.
Nuttie and Brochie (nee Barnett) Shpigelman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 327 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
