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Chabad Teens Anticipate Summer Camp
Zeesy Gurevitch, a 16-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y., cannot contain her excitement. For the first time ever, she will travel far from home without her parents to spend six weeks with eight friends in Marietta, Ga. But it won’t be a complete vacation.
Video: Promo for Camp Gan Israel NY
With summer rapidly approaching, Gan Israel New York released a promo clip boasting of recent improvements.
Chabad of Oakland Finds Lakeside Location
After a somewhat nomadic existence over the past four years, Chabad of Oakland and Piedmont has settled into a new — and perhaps permanent — location near Lake Merritt.
Photos: Moments Before the Parade Begins
Thousands of chairs set up along the parkway, bags with Tzedokah and refreshments on every seat, last minute adjustments. The Lag Baomer Parade is about to begin!
10:00am: Lag BaOmer Parade Live
The best views of this year’s Lag BaOmer parade may be on your desktops and in the palms of your hands. Ensuring that there won’t be any bad seats this year, CrownHeights.info and the Jewish.TV app will stream the parade live.
NY Post Opinion: Dressing Down Jews
Is City Hall about to take action against the dress codes at Manhattan’s top-flight restaurants? Of course not. And that only underscores the hypocrisy that all too often animates this administration. Because the city is going after Hasidic-owned store-owners who ask their patrons to dress modestly.
Bochurim Sell T-Shirts to Raise Funds
For the past 12 years, Camp Yeka has received a grant which covered the majority of the actual cost of each camper’s food and lodging. Unfortunately, this year there is no funding at all.
Photos: Hundreds At Lag BaOmer Bon Fire
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents of all ages turned out for the Lag Ba’omer bonfire on Kingston Avenue, in front of the George Wingate Highschool.
Photos: Simcha and Chayus at the Empire Bonfire!
A Lag Ba’omer bonfire and celebration took place for the 29th year on Empire Boulevard in the backyard of the Horowitz family. Together, Rabbi Sholom Horowitz and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Reb Shimon Bar Yochai.
Cheder at the Ohel holds pre Lag B’Omer Parade
Cheder at the Ohel held a pre Lag b’Omer parade Friday, in Valley Stream, NY, complete with a police escort and a car playing accapella Chassidic music.
Lag Baomer Programs for Post-Sem Women
After receiving rave reviews for the Tu’B’shvat, Purim and Yud-Aleph Nisan programs the need to continue creating and organizing such events was apparent. In The Heights will be hosting two events for Lag Baomer.
Motzai Shabbos: Lag BaOmer Bon Fire
Marking the beginning of Lag Baomer, a communal Bonfire will be lit on Kingston Avenue in front of the Wingate Highschool – 600 Kingston Avenue – starting at 9:45pm on Motzai Shabbos.
Photos: Kollel Farbrengs for Pesach Sheini
A group of Kollel Yungerleit arranged a Pesach Sheini farbrengen with Rabbi Efraim Piekarsky.
Photos by anachinfos.net
Here’s My Story: Speechless
I don’t remember how old I was, maybe thirteen years old, when I caught a very bad case of bronchitis. There was a danger of pneumonia and my parents and grandparents were terrified. I guess in Europe, if someone coughed, it meant tuberculosis or worse, and they were beside themselves.
by Mrs. Rivkah Tillim
Baby Girl!
Yehuda Leib and Chaya (nee Weinman) Matusof (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Kuti and Rochel (nee Freedman) Kalmenson (Crown Heights)
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