Wedding: Geisinsky – Blumes
Last week the wedding of Yehuda Geisinsky and Chana Blumes, both of Crown Heights, took place in the Oholei Torah ballroom.
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Oren Rahat, center, came to Brooklyn, N.Y., to celebrate the completion of a Talmudic tractate that he had studied with Jnet partners by phone. Photo: Bentzi Sasson.
Making the Most of Torah by Telephone
Jerusalem-born Oren Rahat describes himself as a Modern Orthodox Jew. A graduate of Religious-Zionist yeshivahs, he has always valued Torah study as an important part of his life.
Keilim Mikvah May Be Closed Due to Trash
The Mikvah for Keilim adjacent to Crown Heights’ Sterling Electronics is under threat of closure after mounds of garbage left by patrons raised the ire of neighbors.
100 Years After Blood Libel, Torah Completed near Mendel Beilis’ Home
Rabbi Moshe Klein’s wiry, exacting hands scratched the last of 304,805 Hebrew characters in black ink on vellum Sunday afternoon, completing the Saratoga Chabad House’s newest Torah, and a year of painstaking labor.
Shliach Donates Blood for Russia Bombing Victims
Rabbi Zalman Yaffe, chief rabbi of the Russian city of Volgagrad (formerly Stalingrad), went this morning to donate blood for the victims of a bus bombing in his city last week.
Tonight: SafetyKid Coming Back to Crown Heights
Last year the Crown Heights Parents Safety Alliance, a project of the Merkos Chinuch Office, initiated a very successful child-safety program for K-3rd grade in all the Mosdos in Crown Heights, empowering children and teaching them what’s appropriate touch and what’s not and how to respond when situations come up.
Shlomo Ben-Haim, one of the victims of the attack in Sydney.
Video: Chabad Rabbi Says Attack Shocked Everyone
Rabbi Eli Feldman, a Chabad rabbi in Sydney, Australia, told Arutz Sheva Monday that “both Jewish community and larger Australian community were shocked” by the anti-Semitic attack in Bondi on Shabbos.
Rabbi Dov Wagner and students enjoy food at Chabad of USC’s falafel fiesta night in January 2012.
How Chabad is Changing Hillel and Reshaping Campus
Jared Sichel, a writer for the L.A. Jewish Journal, compares the approaches of Chabad and Hillel to Jewish life on campus, and describes how one is changing the other.
New Shluchim to Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Just before the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine welcomed four new families, who joined the 40 existing families of Shluchim active in the city.
Melbournians Uplifted by Chabad Niggunim
Before a full house at the Phoenix Theatre in Melbourne on Thursday night, October 24, a talented group of musicians and others delighted the crowd with an interpretation of a series of Chassidic nigunim, in support of Mayanot Institute in Israel.
New Engagement!
Mayer (ben Shloima) Zarchi (Crown Heights) and Chenchie (bas S.Z.) Baumgarten (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Thusrday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
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Police on the scene Friday investigating. Photo: VIN News.
Williamsburg Woman Dies After Being Hit by School Bus
An Orthodox woman that was seriously injured after getting struck by a Satmar Yeshiva school bus as she was walking in Williamsburg Friday afternoon has passed away over Shabbos.
Picture of the Day: Do-Gooder Corvette
A CrownHeights.info reader spotted a Corvette with an intriguing licence plate while traveling along the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
71st Precinct to get New Commanding Officer
Crown Heights is getting a new commanding officer for the 71st Precinct. Later this week Deputy Inspector John Lewis will be replaced by Deputy Inspector George Fitzgibbon from the 69th Precinct.
Miami Yeshiva Bochurim Enjoy S. Florida Shabbaton
47 Bochurim from the Zal Yeshiva in Miami enjoyed a meaningful and inspiring Shabbaton with the community in Ft. Myers, Florida and were hosted by Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida.
Five Jews Injured in Sydney Anti-Semitic Attack
Police have charged three people over an alleged anti-Semitic attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Four men and a woman were walking home from the synagogue in Bondi in the early hours of Saturday when a group of about eight young men began yelling anti-Semitic insults at them.
ABC Australia
About a month ago, the Jewish Daily Forward published a hit-piece attacking Chabad's Michigan Jewish Institute for alleged failure to receive accreditation and predicted its impending closure. Last Week, the Detroit Jewish News took the Forward to task for its gross misrepresentation of the facts and set the record straight.
Detroit Paper Responds to Forward Attack on MJI
About a month ago, the Jewish Daily Forward published a hit-piece attacking Chabad’s Michigan Jewish Institute for alleged failure to receive accreditation and predicted its impending closure. Last Week, the Detroit Jewish News took the Forward to task for its gross misrepresentation of the facts and set the record straight.
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