CROWN HEIGHTS — OK Kosher Certification recently held its annual Mashgiach Conference at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Over 150 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
When Nicole Drapeau of Montreal slipped on a patch of ice two weeks ago and broke her ankle, she got more than just free medical treatment for her injury. She says she had her faith in mankind restored.
Mumbai’s Jewish community offered prayers at Chabad House on Monday, as they remembered Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were killed in the 2008 militant attacks by Pakistan-based militants.
Eli and Chaya (nee Rosenberg) Labkowski (Crown Heights)
Peretz and Chevie (nee Kulek) Lazaroff (Crown Heights)
The Levaya of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Labkowsky, OBM, will pass in front of 770 Monday morning at 11:00, on its way to Montefire cemetery in Queens.
The Labkowsky family will be sitting Shiva in Crown Heights until Tuesday afternoon, at 433 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
CNN reporter Sara Sidner profiled two children that were injured in the latest unrest in Gaza, where Hamas terrorized much of Israel. The children, 4-year-old Yosef Scharf who lost his mother Mira and was injured himself, and 8-year-old Bisan al-Aghram from Gaza who was injured.
The family of Mrs. Devorah Krinsky OBM is sitting Shiva after her passing at 729 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Avenues]
Times of Tefillos are as follows:
Shachris: 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:00.
Mincha: 15 Minutes before sunset.
Maariv: Bizmana.
Email: krinskyfam@gmail.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Eliyahu Rapoport (London, England) and Rivka Epstein (Chicago, IL)
L’Chaim Monday at FREE
1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Motty Rosenfeld (Toronto, Ontario) and Raizy Konikov (Satellite Beach, FL)
L’Chaim Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
The theme was “The Power of Love” as the Conejo Valley, California Friendship Circle celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Hyatt Westlake Plaza hotel on Monday night and paid tribute with Pioneer Leadership Awards to 19 volunteers.
Due to the severe backlogging of court cases caused by Hurricane Sandy, the hearing over the law requiring mohelim to obtain parents’ “informed consent” before performing metzitzah b’peh has been rescheduled for December 12. In the meantime, the temporary stay on the “consent” rule has been extended, with the government agreeing not to enforce this regulation until oral arguments are heard.
A new online video library was created in memory of Reb Tzvi Hirsch Chitrik, OBM, with the goal of assisting students both young and old achieve greater understanding and knowledge in Gemara.
Yitzy Blasenstein (Sydney, Australia) and Henny Simon (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Mendy Niazov (Vienna, Austria) and Rivka Sabbach (Melbourne, Australia)
F.R.E.E., 1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Zalmy Hershkop (Crown Heights) and Mushka Shubov (Toronto, Canada)
Empire Shteibel, 489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
The Or Lachayal organization, under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Ofen, went with volunteers to the south of Israel near the Gaza border to elevate the morale of the IDF soldiers stationed there.
Mendy Baron (Miami Beach, FL) and Rivka Minkowitz (Teaneck, NJ)
L’chaim will be Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
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Rabbi Shmuel Braun’s popular weekly Parshah class has moved from Yerushalayim to Crown Heights.
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