Every year Rabbi Mordechai and Chana Lightstone travel to Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest (SXSW) technology conference, there they promote #openShabbat where they encourage Jews to ‘unplug’ and attend a Shabbat dinner.
Dovid Nissan and Tzivia (nee Gorkin) Jacobs (Crown Heights)
Shloime Weiser (Vienna, Austria) and Freidi Grunblatt (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
L’Chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
SYDNEY, Australia — Silver service and sand combined last Friday night as Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen hosted over 60 diners for a Shabbat service and dinner on iconic Tamarama Beach.
Eli and Chavie (nee Bronstein) Hecht (Crown Heights)
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended citywide tomorrow, Friday, February 7, 2014, to facilitate snow removal.
Zalman Baumgarten (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Tzivi Geisinsky (Great Neck, NY)
On Wednesday evening at about 6:30, Shomrim received a call from a woman who said there was a commotion going on near her home, located in the vicinity of Montgomery St. and Troy Ave. She said it sounded like a group of people were running and yelling.
After announcing the closure of the hyper-controversial website Crown Heights Watch, founder Meyer Seewald released the following statement in response to critics who suggested that the costs of maintaining a website are minimal, and that lack of funding couldn’t be the reason for the website’s shuttering.
In the small kitchenette at Chabad of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, big things are happening. From new Energy Star appliances to glass bake ware to low-flow aerators on the faucet, the room is undergoing a green transformation.
Fifty young students from Russia, Ukraine and additional countries of the former Soviet Union dedicated their winter vacation to attend an uplifting experience, combining intriguing Jewish heritage studies and selected trips and attractions.
The Rebbe’s aide Dr. Nissan Mindel at work in his office, circa mid-1970s.
A former psychiatric ward at Crown Heights’ Kings County Hospital will soon be torn down and replaced with an affordable housing complex.
Popular Israeli singer and composer, Yishai Lapidot (of Oif Simches and Kinderlach fame), greets secretary of the Rebbe Rabbi Leibel Groner at the wedding of the wedding of the daughter of Shliach to Kiev Rabbi Yonasan Markovitz in Jerusalem last night.
First a lone soldier in the Israel Defense Force, then a Chaplain in the IDF and finally an accomplished Torah scholar, Rabbi Shalom Hammer shared his unique experiences and extensive background when he served as Scholar in Residence at the winter Shabbaton of Chabad of WMC in Manalapan, NJ.
It was snow, then it was ice, then it was frozen rain, then it was slush. The surface was slippery Wednesday no matter where you were in New York — or how you were trying to get around.
For the small but devout congregation of Chabad of The Woodlands near Houston, TX, Sunday was a day for song and dance as the group ceremoniously inducted a new Torah scroll for use at their synagogue for the first time in its history.
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