Though hectic was the name of the game at many a Chabad House during the weeks preceding Chanukah, the arrival of an unassuming white box in the mail lifted a weight off the shoulders of many shluchim and shluchos around the world. Their CKids Chanukah program had arrived.
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The fast begins Sunday at 5:34am and ends at 5:09pm (NYC)
On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe Reading the Haftarah of a fast day 10 Tevet, 5748 · December 31, 1987
Mendel and Kaila Rivka Feldman (Crown Heights)
Zalman Werdiger (Melbourne, Australia) and Mushke Kirschenbaum (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS — He just can’t get a break! The owner of a late model Infinity M37 whose tires were stolen back in October just a few hundred feet away, was the victim of the same theft once again – only this time his window was smashed and the car was burglarized too.
According to a column published today on NYC news website DNAinfo, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly New York City has seen the largest number of people arrested in the city’s history – jumping nearly 23 percent compered to the year before Bloomberg took office.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Chazan will lead a discussion on Yehuda and Yosef – in the future.
Mendy and Goldie Barnett
531 Brooklyn Ave. Apt 4C [Between E New York and Maple St.]
Aizik and Musia (nee Goldman) Baumgarten
1574 Carroll St. [Between Troy and Albany Ave.]
Moishe and Esther Kavka (Rockville, MD)
How could G-d allow the innocent children of Sandy Hook to be murdered by a madman? And the inquisition, the holocaust, the intifada and countless atrocities, both communal and personal, that have occurred throughout history? This is the perennial question that arises at times of crisis.
Shlome Junik (Crown Heights) and Shana Singer (Aventura, FL)
Zev Adler (Baltimore, MD) and Chana Steinhauser (Crown Heights)
Yoni Eizicovics (Toronto, Ontario) and Miriam Leebhoff (Los Angeles, CA)
The Jewish community of Vietnam recently marked the opening of the nation’s first mikvah (ritual bath). More than one hundred community members and oversees businessmen gathered to salute the new mikvah and Chabad-Lubavitch of Vietnam, headed by Rabbi Menachem and Rachel Hartman.
Thursday Night, the Fifth night of Chanukah, Jew in the City blogger Allison Josephs hosted a Chanukah Party in Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattans Upper East Side. The party featured the launch of “Top 10 Orthodox Jewish All Stars” video.
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