Friendship Circle Launches New Year of Volunteering
This past Thursday, over 200 girls from various schools in Crown Heights joined together to volunteer for an important cause within the community, the Friendship Circle.
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Shaya and Shaina (nee Gershowitz) Gopin (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 444 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
New Engagement!
Aharon Mendel Adelist (Melbourne, Australia) to Rocky (Rochel Leah) Gutnick (Melbourne, Australia)
Florida’s Emerald Coast Welcomes New Rabbi
Chabad-Lubavitch recently opened a new branch on Florida’s Emerald Coast. Rabbi Shaya Tenenboim, 31, who arrived from south Florida with his family just before the High Holidays, told The Log that he will care for and help everyone, not only synagogue members.
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Another Home Robbed Friday Night
A familiar – yet no less shocking – scene played out once again this Shabbos, as another Crown Heights home was broken into and robbed while the family slept peacefully upstairs.
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Zev Gotkin (Glen Cove, NY) and Hadassah Nazmiyal (Great Neck, NY)
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Dovid and Laya Slavin (Sydney, Australia)
Public School Teacher Assaulted on Crown St.
A Jewish woman who teaches in a local public school was attacked on Crown Street this afternoon by a gang of eight teens, half of them boys and the other half girls. The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Shabbos at the Besht: Kibud Av Va’em – How and Why
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic: Kibud Av Va’em – How and Why (Part 2).
Estonian Jews Invest With Confidence in Community’s Future
Dmitri Shmorgun, 24, was among local Jewish residents and Tallinn’s leadership who celebrated the opening in late September of a community Beit Midrash and Children’s Center.
New York City Mayor John Lindsay meets with the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1968.
Weekly Living Torah Video: The Rebbe on crime in NYC
In the late ’60s in New York City, certain neighborhoods of Brooklyn were experiencing intense racial tensions. In the winter of 1968, New York City Mayor John Lindsay came to discuss the situation with the Rebbe.
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian close to the scene where Sariya Ofer, a retired Israeli army officer, was killed.
IDF Colonel Hacked to Death in Jordan Valley
Palestinians wielding axes and iron bars killed Shariyah Ofer outside his home in the West Bank, the latest in a series of attacks on Israelis in the area.
6 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Mendel and Brachie (nee Katz) Hecht
508 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Shmuli and Sarah (nee Finkel) Schochet
430 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Shmaya and Devora Glick
1423 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Yosef Yitchok and Mussie (nee Perl) Schtroks
1494 Union St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Mendy and Sheina (nee Hecht) Majesky
1467 Carroll St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Chaim and Miriam Baum
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Photos: Yeshivas Erev 5774 Gets Underway
This week hundreds of boys in grades 5-8 from all the schools in Crown Heights gathered for an extra hour of learning, from 7:00 to 8:00pm.
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Mendel and Brachie (nee Katz) Hecht (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 508 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Mancunians Celebrate The Minyan’s 10th Anniversary
Last Motzoei Shabbos, The Minyan (AKA Beis Menachem) in Manchester, UK celebrated their 10th Anniversary with a grand Melave Malka.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe exiting 770 on his way to the Ohel.
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