Baby Boy!
Dovid and Binie New (Crown Heights)
Picture of the Day: All The Greenbergs at Lehigh
Just over a year ago Chabad at Lehigh University, directed by Rabbi Zalman and his wife Dit Greenberg purchased a mansion to house their growing Chabad House. This week he was visited by his brothers and brother-in-law and posed for a photo at the site of the renovations.
Weekly Living Torah: Niggun Tzomah Lcha Nafshi
Niggun Tzomah Lcha Nafshi sung at a Farbrengen with The Rebbe.
Caring for Jewish Servicemen and Inmates Pesach Needs
Caring for Jewish men and women serving in our country’s military, Aleph just completed sending out thousands of Passover packages for Jewish US military personnel serving in dangerous places around the world, as well as to Jewish inmates, who are incarcerated around the country.
Photos: Candidate for Israels Chief Rabbi Visits Kfar Chabad
Candidate for the Chief Rabbi, Rabbi David Shlomo Stav, visited Kfar Chabad this week and got a tour of 770, the Matzah bakery and met with the Mayor, Reb Binyamin Lifshitz.
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Dovid and Binie New
Menachem Nochum Shul, 440 Crown St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues]
Menachem and Rachel Esty Gold
1455 Union St, [between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues]
Naftali and Chaya Shaul
1103 Sterling Pl, Apt 1b [between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues]
Pinchos and Devorah Leah Movsikov
Hadar Torah, 824 Eastern Pkwy, [between Kingston and Albany Avenues]
‘Mount Middos Project’ Rewards Students with Ski Trip
United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway took the Talmidim on a grand skiing trip as part of a reward for participating in a Mivtza called “Mount Middos Project”.
New Engagement!
Mendel Sibony (Paris, France) and Yael Faur (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Priorities, Priorities! Confusing The Book For The Cover
Vayakhel-Pekudei: Legend has it that the late Albert Einstein, in need of a clasp to hold together some papers from a recently completed project, spent a considerable amount of time trying to straighten-out a twisted paper clip. While struggling with the dysfunctional object, his assistant found a box of new clips. Einstein took one of the new paper clips reshaped it and used it as an instrument to repair the old bent one.
The Best and Worst of Brooklyn Collided
He waived extradition. Now Julio Acevedo, 44, should wave goodbye to freedom. With a desperado’s face only a mugshot photographer could love, Acevedo listened to a local district attorney advise the judge that the suspect wanted to waive extradition to Brooklyn, where he was wanted in the Sunday hit-and-run wreck that killed Nachman and Raizel Glauber, both 21.
Weekly Unique Picture of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo of Rabbi Yossi Goldstein makes an announcement at a Lag Beomer Parade with the Rebbe, 1970.
Friday: Alternate Side Parking Suspended
Alternate Side Parking regulations are suspended citywide today, Friday, March 8, 2013, to facilitate snow removal. Meters and all other parking regulations remain in effect.
New Shluchim To Mumbai, India
For Chaya Kozlovsky, India is marked by extremes: extreme heat, extreme smells and extreme culture shock for the native Israeli. Add to that the seemingly extreme differences of those sitting around her first Sabbath in Mumbai, where she and her husband, Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, are the new co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch center.
Shabbos at the Besht: Chassidim on Pesach
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Levi Kaplan will lead a discussion on the topic Chassidim and Pesach, how we prepare, behave and eat. This weeks class is dedicated to the legendary Uncle Yossi Goldstein OBM, who passed away Thursday.
Two Pedestrians Struck Within Minutes of Each Other
A yungerman and a Bochur were both struck by cars in two separate incidents that occurred within minutes of each other. In both incidents, one in front of 770 and another in front of Empire Shtiebel, BH no one was seriously hurt.
Summer Birthdays Celebrated at ULY
In honor of Chof Hey Adar, the birthday of the Rebbetzin, Lubavitcher Yeshiva had its annual grand birthday party for all those students whose birthdays fall out in the summer. The ‘birthday’ boys sat at the head of a table in order of their birthdays, dressed in their Shabbosdik white shirts and smiling faces.
Speeding, Inclement Weather Leads to Massive Accident
A number of people were hurt after a speeding car collided with a commercial van on Albany Avenue, miraculously none of the injuries were serious. At the scene police arrested one of the drivers.
