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Tonight: ‘Torah and Tea’ Gathering in Memory of Rashi
In honor of Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, a beloved Shlucha and mother whose life was tragically cut short earlier this month, Crown Heights women will gather tonight for a ‘Torah and Tea’ seminar in her memory.
Info to Be Menachem Avel Mrs. Leah Silverstein
Mrs. Leah Silverstein is sitting shiva after the passing of her mother, OBM, at 1559 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.] until Friday afternoon. Visitors are requested to come between the hours of 12:00-9:00pm. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion […]
65-Year-Old Possible Victim of ‘Knockout Game’
Immediately following a wedding in Borough Park at 2:30am Tuesday morning, a 65 year-old Orthodox Jewish visitor from Great Britain was attacked and injured in what some are calling a twisted version of the “knockout game.” Update: Hoax? Update #2: Not a hoax.
New Engagement!
Meir Dubrawsky (Vancouver, Canada) and Nechama Parshan (Toronto, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Rabbi Meets Oldest Man in America, Resulting in a Flurry of Good Deeds
At 111, Alexander Imich has been officially verified as the oldest man in America and the second oldest in the world. A resident of Manhattan who lives on the Upper West Side, he had the honor of being congratulated by the New York State Senate last year, on his 110th birthday.
Proposal to Levy 10-Cent Fee on All Shopping Bags
The choice between paper or plastic bags could soon come with a new burden in New York City: a 10-cent fee.
Baby Boy!
Shmueli and Sora (nee Margolis) Milecki (Crown Heights)
Please Say Tehillim for..
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel Halevi ben Chaya, a member of Anash who is undergoing brain surgery today. His personal Kapital is Samach Daled (64).
Girls Create ‘Park’ Out of Shabbos Laws
This year, when teaching the Lamed Tes (39) Melachos (types of work) that are forbidden on Shabbos, the teachers of Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary school in Los Angeles, California showed colorful pictures, hands-on tools, and brought in everything besides their kitchen sinks to teach the difficult subject to their students.
Rabbi Cunin: I Was Targeted for Feeding Homeless
Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, director of Chabad of the West Coast, believes he was targeted by authorities for feeding the homeless in Santa Monica, California.
Baby Girl!
Mendy and Brocha (nee Lewis) Lent (Nottingham, UK)
Baby Girl!
Sholly and Leah (nee Rabin) Inglis (London, UK)
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Devorah Leah Grumach, 10 Mo., OBM
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the sudden and very untimely passing of baby Devorah Leah Grumach OBM, a 10-month-old baby who suddenly fell ill and passed away.
Rabbi Osdoba Gives Shiur on Mechiras Chometz
Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, the Rov and Moro D’asro of Crown Heights, gave a Shiur on the Halachos of the selling of Chometz according to the shita of the Alter Rebbe. The Shiur was given in the new Kolel for young men in 770 Montgomery Street.
Lechaim: Haller – Raichik
Pictures from the L’chaim of Sholom Ber Haller (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Chaya Mushka (bas Elozar) Raichik (Crown Heights), which took place Monday night at Beis Levi Yitzchok in Crown Heights.
Jew Meets Jew at a Williamsburg Café
Simon Gronowski was 11 years old when his mother pushed him off a train transport to Auschwitz, saving his life. His mother and sister were gassed upon arriving in Auschwitz, and his father, he says, died of a broken heart in 1945.
