The Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, is in Palm Springs, California for a three week resting period. As in the past several years, R’ Aharon Davens during the week at the local Chabad House, directed by Rabbi Yonason Denebeim.
While most children may still be in school, there are many that have two weeks off for winter vacation. For Children with special needs the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn held its annual winter camp, under the direction of Rabbi Berel and Chani Majesky.
On Motzei Shabbos, members of the Montreal Lubavitch community gathered in the “Yeshiva Zal” for a Farbrengen and Melava Malka commemorating Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, OBM, affectionately known in Lubavitch as “Reb Volf,” whose Yahrzeit was on the 19th of Teves.
Apartment asking rents in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant climbed 8.8 percent during 2013, according to industry data.
Bill de Blasio took the oath of office administered by former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday, formally becoming the 109th mayor of New York City while pledging to pursue a sweeping liberal agenda.
Alternate Side Parking Regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Thursday, January 2, to facilitate snow preparations. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
More snow and cold weather is expected to start the year 2014. Weather reports say that Winter Storm Hercules is expected to unload six to ten inches of snow in New York City starting Wednesday night.
Over the past week and a half, the Jewish Released Time program, under the auspices of the NCFJE, arranged two camps for public school children during their winter vacation, with over 70 children in attendance.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Felicia Bryn, OBM, of Sunny Isles Beach, FL, wife of Rabbi Nathan Bryn, OBM, and mother of beloved Florida Shliach Reb Dovid Bryn, OBM.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Chaim Katzir, OBM, a respected member of the Lubavitch community in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 64.
Talk about taking a break for Shabbos. “We were deep in the process of putting the pieces together for our next album,” says Benny Friedman, “when we decided to go in another direction and create something different and special.”
Almost 100 girls enjoyed five days of fun, learning and inspiration at the Jewish Girls’ Retreat, a winter camp for young Jewish women in the New York State Capital Region under the leadership of Mrs. Nechama Laber of Chabad of Troy.
Dovid Golowinski (Crown Heights) and Chaya Chriqui (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
David Nathan (Los Angeles, CA) and Hela Zadaka (Minneapolis, MN)
Moshe Friedman (Israel) and Batya Banayan (Panama City, Panama)
Shmulik and Yael Hilel (Melbourne, Australia)
In a complete about-face, Rabbi Joseph Rosenfeld, the Executive Director of Oholei Torah, sent out a midnight email informing parents of the ‘resumption of duties’ of the two faculty members that were dismissed in light of their involvement in recent controversies surrounding the Call of the Shofar.
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