“Ach Sameach,” Chaim Rosenfelt said, writing the expression for me in Hebrew as he sipped clear liquor from a water bottle. “It’s one of the Mitzvahs for the holiday. Ach Sameach—Only Happy!”
Levi Pinson (Brunoy, France) and Mushka Weiser (Vienna, Austria)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
When Shluchim arrive in Crown Heights for the Kinus, they’ll be marking 20 years since Gimel Tamuz. In that span, the “Rebbe’s Shlichus” nearly doubled, and a great number of those new Shluchim have never even seen the Rebbe.
How many countries have you been to in your lifetime? Three, maybe 4? Author Ben Frank can proudly state that he has traveled to 88 countries, visiting many Chabad Houses in the process, and in each one he checks out the Jewish community and how they have survived and thrived.
On Shabbos Chol Hamoed Sukkot, the 17th of Tishrei, Mrs. Esther Goldman, a friend to so many in Crown Heights and beyond passed away. In Esthers memory, her grandchildren have launched a campaign to build hospitality suites in tribute to her passion for Hachnosas Orchim.
Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes – who was soundly defeated in last month’s Democratic primary – will actively campaign on Republican and Conservative party lines in a bid to keep his job, his spokesman told The New York Post on Thursday.
Rabbi Manis Friedman says YES! Last year, Rabbi Friedman led a life changing teleconference course titled, “Proper Conduct Between Husband and Wife – Behind Closed Doors.” The course was attended by 40 participants and the feedback was astounding!
The facade of a building housing a Chabad Yeshiva in Givat Shaul, an ultra-orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, was defaced by an unknown assailant, who scrawled “Chabad = Swastika symbol” on it.
Shmuly and Yehudis (nee Blesovsky) Kasowitz (Crown Heights)
Chanie Apfelbaum, a Crown Heights resident who blogs about Kosher cooking under the pseudonym Busy in Brooklyn, recently won an award for a delicious mushroom dish.
An amazing effort by both vigilant community members and Shomrim volunteers resulted in the apprehension of three teens who assaulted and mugged a young woman, making off with her cell phone. Police brass worked hand in hand with Shomrim, which resulted in the muggers’ identification and arrest.
After we shined a spotlight on the actions of a group of violent thugs in 770 last week, thousands of Anash expressed their reactions in the form of emails and comments. Several ‘angels of peace’ attempted to spin, rationalize and explain away their actions; but new revelations prove that those actions stretch further back – and are even more shocking – than we would all like to believe.
A 10-year-old boy from a Chabad family in Kiryat Ata, Israel was struck by a vehicle today as he was riding his bicycle.
Police are investigating more anti-Semitic messages left in Crown Heights and Williamsburg.
Corey Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey and Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, delivers a Dvar Torah based on Chasidic interpretation of the Posuk “Ve’asu Li Mikdash V’Shachanti Besocham.”
The English Montreal School Board is citing a 16-year-old law to explain why extracurricular Jewish clubs at three of its high schools aren’t being permitted this fall after having run for as long as five years.
The Creative Soul, an organization that fuses Chasidic Judaism and contemporary art, hosted an exhibition titled “Pure Joy” as part of its annual celebration of creativity on the holiday of Sukkos.
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