As the family of Shluchim and Anash in Chicago first heard of the shocking and tragic passing of Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Illinois, some found solace in their e-mail inbox, where they saw an unread message from their beloved head Shliach and colleague.
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Sholy Brown (Manchester, UK) and Dena Krafchik (Leeds, UK)
L’chaim will be Thursday night at Eshel
274 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, the regional director of Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois who helped to spur the growth of dozens of Chabad-Lubavitch centers in 21 cities across the state, passed away suddenly in Chicago on March 4. He was 59.
Israeli naval forces raided a ship in the Red Sea early Wednesday and seized dozens of advanced rockets from Iran destined for Palestinian militants in Gaza, the military said.
Tzemach Tzedek, the main Bais Medrash for the Monsey Chabad Anash community, was buzzing this past past Motzeai Shabbos, Parshas Pekudei-Chazak, as over 75 fathers and sons spent an hour of quality time learning together.
“This is a book about love” Peggy Noonan begins her book on 9/11. It’s a captivating read: raw, unedited. Written at the time and in the aftermath of when jets crushed towers into rubble and white smoke smotered Manhattan and death choked the streets for days. Its reads battlefield, not memorial. And yes, with all the terror and bleeding and gory horror, she’s right – it is a book about love. Across the pages she sifts through her mind, her conscious, her life, her generation, our ethos. And she brings us through with a generous spirit.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel HaKohen ben Devorah Shifra, a young father who is undergoing critical surgery this afternoon.
Gisella Friedman’s story mirrors the typical Jewish experience in Cordoba, Argentina. Her family crossed the Atlantic Ocean around the turn of the 20th century to become gauchos, South American grassland folk known for farming and raising cattle on the pampas, the fertile Argentinian lowlands, on colonies established by the largess of Sir Moses Montefiore and Baron Maurice de Hirsch.
Chabad of the Tri-Valley in Pleasanton, California officially has a new home. After nine years of using rooms in various facilities around the area, the Chabad center moved into a 4,000- square-foot building.
Chaim Salomon (Crown Heights) and Katy (Shoshana) Vickers (Lakeland, FL)
After the Shaked Committee (AKA Equal Burden of Service Committee) decided that 100 volunteers of the Chabad Lubavitch movement will be considered “civilian service” volunteers – and their service will count toward Hareidi IDF enlistment targets – they face strong opposition from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which declared today that the proposed arrangement would not be legal.
Some tenants in Crown Heights are rallying for better rights. On Union Street, tenants say the new owner of their apartment building, BCB Properties, bought the building last year and is now trying to push them out.
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, OBM, head Shliach to the state of Illinois and board member of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch. He was 59 years old. Update: Levaya information added.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday, March 5, for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
As opposing forces in Ukraine continue to clash, a new video released by TorahCafe.com offers a glimpse of a Higher Force at work in Dnepropretrovsk.
A week ago, when a private letter from Rabbi Ezra Schochet, addressed to the Beis Din of Johannesburg and Chabad Representative Rabbi Yossi Goldman, was leaked to CrownHeights.info, calling it “prohibited and unacceptable” for any Chabad Rabbi to allow Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to speak in their synagogues, I didn’t give it much thought.
Forget the IDF; Yeshiva students now how to worry about being drafted into the Ukrainian Army. Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities received draft notices to report to the Ukrainian army draft center, according to a report in Maariv.
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