One thousand pounds of hand-made dough, gallons upon gallons of special homemade tomato sauce, kosher mozzarella cheese by the bucket multiplied by several hundred. Mix the ingredients together, throw em’ into a brick-oven and what do you get?
Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway’s Auction took place Sunday in Crown Heights. “And the winners are… the hundreds of people who supported the learning of our dear talmidim” said Rabbi Sholom Avtzon.
A shoplifter was apprehended and arrested after stealing two items from a Kingston Avenue store. The items were valued at a mere $6.
Shmueli and Chasia Feldman (Canberra, Australia)
Today, Sunday, the Regional Kinus of French Shluchim concluded. The Kinus took place over the weekend and included many farbrengens and workshops.
Levi and Tzippy (nee Schusterman) Shloush (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher singers Peretz Chein and Benny Friedman headlined a performance of the Shira Choir at a Bar Mitzvah in Williamsburg last week.
Two different accounts have emerged about an unverified photograph of a chareidi man sitting on an airplane covered in a full length plastic bag that took the internet by storm last week.
Moishy (ben Shimon) Raichik (Los Angeles, CA) and Riki (bas Avrahom) Simpson (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Itche and Chanale (nee Caplan) Itkin (Kansas City, MO)
Tonight, Lubavitcher Yeshiva Ocean Parkway is holding their annual Auction to benefit the school. Following the auction viewing a program featuring the compelling story of Dr. Dov (Bernd) Wollschlaeger, who grew up completely unaware of his father’s involvement in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust. He will be speaking at 4:15pm for men, and at 8:00pm for women.
Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has just released a new edition of its classic work on prayer: As for me…MY PRAYER: A commentary on the daily, Shabbat & Festival Prayers. Authored by the late Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, noted scholar and prolific author, and first published in 1972, it quickly became a standard text on the Siddur.
Asher Sossonko (Miami, FL) and Mushky Lifshitz (Cincinnati, OH)
Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Hakohen Blau was born in 1913 in Hamburg, Germany to Horav Yirmiah Hakohen and Mrs. Leah Blau. When he became aware that one of the great Musar teachers, Reb Yerucham Halevi Lebowitz was the mashgiach in the Mirrer Yeshiva, he requested permission and the support of his parents to study there. In 1932 at the age of nineteen, he left Germany for Mir, Poland.
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