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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]

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.

by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, FL

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.

NY Daily News

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.

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.

Chabad Annouces Major Expansion at Annual Dinner

In what turned out to be an historical Dinner in Hallandale Beach, this past Tuesday, at the Max and Eve Rubenstein Main Sanctuary, located at Chabad of South Broward Headquarters, “The Decision” was announced to expand and renovate Chabad’s facilities at a cost of $3.3 million dollars.

Video: Can we Trust the Christians?

Michael Medved, rated #11 out of the top 100 radio personalities, returns to his home state of Pennsylvania to speak to Chabad of Bucks County. In 1969 Look Magazine published an article about the Vanishing American Jew. The magazine has vanished but the Jews are expanding in tony Bucks County.

A Locust Plague, Shy of Biblical Proportions, in Israel

For many Israelis, the biblical comparisons were irresistible: locusts were swarming across the border from Egypt three weeks before Passover, like a vivid enactment of the eighth plague visited upon the obdurate Pharaoh. Others with a more modern sensibility said it felt more like Hitchcock.

NY Times