New Shluchim trying to raise money to build a new Chabad House in earthquake stricken New Zealand turned to an Israeli crowd funding site to raise money. For a donation of 50 NIS you will get letter of gratitude; for 360 NIS you’ll be given opportunity to participate in a raffle for plane tickets to the building dedication.
A video depicting Sanz-Klausenburg Chasidim scrambling for apples thrown by their Rebbe has gone viral on YouTube, bringing broad public interest and curiosity into this obscure but time-honored Chasidic tradition.
Levi (ben Berel) Levertov (Crown Heights) and Lia Perlov (Sunnyvale, CA)
A five-year-old girl was gripped with paralyzing terror as she hid under her bed late on Friday night, after being awoken to the sight of a burglar rummaging through her home, located in the heart of Crown Heights.
This past Friday afternoon, a group of Bochurim learning at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown visited Rutgers University in central New Jersey to reach out to Jewish students on campus.
Yisroel Newman (London/CH) and Rivky Sonnenfeld (Scranton/Brooklyn)
There was something surprisingly calm about the tiny Brooklyn courtyard of 770 Eastern Parkway, the address of the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Groups of Hasidic men passed by talking, clutching cellphones, laughing, carrying boxes of books. One morning this past March, I knocked on a heavy wooden door; someone inside the building buzzed me in.
The Talmud relates that King David and his general, Yoav Ben Tzeruya, supplemented each other. David was immersed in the study of Torah, while Yoav went out to battle.
Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 860 Eastern Pkwy. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
71 year-old David Whitebook was “a non-observant, secular Jew” when he attended a class by the new Chabad rabbi in his community of active adults some 10 years ago.
Mordechai Ben David sings the ‘Chabadsker Niggun’ at the Simchas Bais Hashoeva of congregation Shaarei Torah in Los Angeles, CA.
Shmuly Estreicher (Morristown, NJ) and Dina Harrouch (Toronto, Canada)
L’chaim will be Sunday night at F.R.E.E.
1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.] at 8:00pm
Shmuly and Esty (nee Kessler) Broenstein
724 Montgomery St. Apt #2c [bet. Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Avremel and Nechamie Popack
317 Crown St. [bet. NY & Nostrand Aves.]
Zalmy and Chaya (nee Lipsker) Naparstek
1569 Carroll St. [bet. Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
Chaim and Chaya (nee Katz) Pape
361 New York Ave [bet. Carroll and President Sts.]
Shmuli and Chani (nee Minsky) Kirsh
510 Crown St. [bet. Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Mendel and Chaya (nee Greenwald) Schtroks
456 Montgomery St. 3rd flr. [bet. New York and Nostrand Aves.]
Dovber and Brochie (nee Goldman) Segelman (Crown Heights)
860 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
A diverse group of young Crown Heights residents reveal their latest film project on the fundraising website Kickstarter. Shot on Google Glass, Project 2×1 is a short documentary film, exploring the cultures of the Chasidic and West Indian communities of Crown Heights.
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