Donation Highlights Rebirth of Amsterdam Shul in Tacoma
On a trip to the States a Shliach and his Mekuravim discovered a story behind a recent donation of a pair of candelabras to Chabad of Tacoma, Washington – and how timely that donation was.
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Alternate Side Parking Suspended Monday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations are suspended on Monday, May 27, for observance of Memorial Day.
Friendship Circle Children Enjoy Softball Day
Friendship Circle children were treated to a special Softball Day with the Crown Heights Softball Leagues’ Heifers and Hammers, while enjoying drinks, pizza and a special game of their own.
YU’s Chabbaton – Crown Heights Shabbaton
Yeshiva University student Shayna Darling, a Baalas Teshuva from Oregon, didn’t find any particular identification with one sect in orthodox Judaisim, but Chabad’s open mindedness drew her in to the Chabad Club at YU.
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Moishe Naparstek (S. Paulo, Brazil) and Mussie Belizinsky (Israel)
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Bentche and Channi Korf (Miami Beach, FL)
New Release: The Rebbe on Education
For the first time in English, a booklet of the Rebbe’s teachings on Education, was published. The 60 color pages of Advice for Life: Education is a compilation of the Rebbe’s direction on parenting, education and teaching. Many of the teachings are being published for the first time.
Video: 3:00am Bicycle Theft Captured on Video
A bike thief made off with an expensive bike last week, and the entire incident was captured on surveillance video.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Michal Blesofsky OBM
With profound sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Michla Breindel (Michal) Blesofsky OBM, wife of R’ Yehuda Blesofsky YBD”L, on Moitze Shabbos Kodesh Parashas Behaaloscha.
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Mendy and Shulamis (nee Nagar) Pellin (Los Angeles, CA)
Good Middos Equals Smooth Sailing for Students
United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway in conjunction with the Shmule Shrage Middos Program, teamed up with the NYC’s South Street seaport Museum. To provide a fun filled hands on educational experience aboard the historic Schooner Vessel Pioneer*.
Inspiration for a ‘Top 50’ Website – The Rebbe
Shloime (Sam) Fellig was a ‘non-technical’ guy whose idea for a new website landed him on the Time’s ‘Top 50 Sites of 2013’. His inspiration? A quote from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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Weekly Living Torah: G-d is on Your Side
New York City Mayor-hopeful Rudy Giuliani visits the Rebbe on 17 Elul, 5749 · September 17, 1989
Friendship Circle participating in past years 'Softball Day'.
Special Kids to Star in Softball Game
This Sunday children from the Friendship Circle of Crown Heights will be the stars of a softball game together with the players of the Crown Heights Softball League.
by YQ Media
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Yoel and Chevy (nee Gurary) Naparstek (Crown Heights)
Why Are New York’s Chefs Afraid of This Man?
If you follow restaurants in New York at all, you’ve seen or heard Maimon Kirschenbaum’s name. It’s synonymous with — some would say infamous for — a steady stream of wage-violation lawsuits brought against star chefs such as Mario Batali, Daniel Boulud, and Keith McNally (he’s won settlements from all three), and he’s targeted restaurants like Nobu, Philippe, and Le Bernardin. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a modern-day Robin Hood, fighting for workers’ rights in a business full of corruption, or an ambulance-chasing bully determined to put the city’s restaurants out of business.
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Ari Halberstam (L), who was murdered in New York by a terrorist in 1991 and Lee Rigby who was murdered in London this week by terrorists.
Terrorisim: From the Brooklyn Bridge to London
Nearly 20 years after a Hasidic Jewish boy riding across the Brooklyn Bridge was killed by a Muslim fighting jihad, a British soldier was hacked to death and reportedly beheaded on the streets of London by Muslims fighting jihad.
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