Samantha Katz, a blogger who used to live in Crown Heights, writes about a fleeting moment of kindness she witnessed between a Hasidc Jewish beggar and an African-American man while visiting her old neighborhood late last Friday afternoon. The moment was so subtle you could have missed it, but the blogger captured a photo of the kind gesture – and tells the story that goes along with it.
What can only be described as a throng of people making their way to celebrate their commitment to Judaism and the achievements their children have made in Hebrew and Jewish studies – was seen at the grand end-of-year banquet of JEMs – Jewish Education Matters – in Sydney, Australia.
Uri and Chani (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
Mendy Marlow (North Miami Beach, FL) and Chaya (bas R’ Yisroelik) Mockin (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Zalman Lison (Montreal, Canada) and Chana’le Weingarten (Brooklyn, NY)
L’chaim will be Thursday night at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee held a memorial gathering in Kiev over the weekend to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the infamous trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, with his American grandson, Jay Beilis, as the guest of honor.
This year’s Kosherfest Expo marks its 25th anniversary, with tens of thousands flocking to the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey to check out the latest and greatest in the Kosher industry.
After lying in ruins through seven decades of the Soviet regime, the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Berdichev is being slowly and meticulously repaired under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Thaler, Shliach to Berdichev, and Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, director of Chabad of Western Ukraine.
Thirty years ago a group of 45 Shluchim got together for the first time since being sent on Shlichus. Today, 30 years later, the number of Shluchim has grown to over 4,500! This year marks 30 years since the first formal Kinus, which came to be thanks to the encouragement of the Rebbe.
Eitan and Bluma (nee Dukesz) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Berlin’s Chabad center opened a new student program, billing it as the city’s first Jewish student house.
More than two thousand South African Jewish women converged on a street in Johannesburg’s Glenhazel neighborhood two weeks ago to learn the intricacies of preparing challah.
Hatzalah of Crown Heights took delivery of a brand new ambulance, and another is set to be delivered later next week. The new ambulances will replace their 7-year-old counterparts and enable Hatzalah to reliably continue to administer emergency care.
The president of Nigeria, Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, prayed at the Western Wall amid his official state visit to Israel. Accompanying the president was Rabbi Yisroel Uzan, Shliach to Nigeria, along with a hundred or so Nigerian ministers and regional governors.
I’m sure many of you have heard or read about the recent Pew statistics on American Jewry and the depressing findings. Approximately 22 percent of Jewish Americans don’t identify with any religion and in responding to the Pew poll categorized themselves as Jews of No Religion.
Yesterday in the evening Shomrim were alerted to two crimes involving young Crown Heights women. In the first – a girl’s phone was mugged. In the second – a young teenager was groped.
Sixteen-year-old Lola Flomen spent Sunday afternoon with friends at Trudeau Park in Montreal’s Cote S. Luc neighborhood. Yes, many of were high school classmates, but dozens of her playmates were children with special needs.
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