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.
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.
Tragedy in Haifa: Lubavitcher Killed in Car Crash
A fatal car crash in Haifa claimed the life of 73-year-old Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Kahniel, a Lubavitcher Chossid from Bat Yam, his wife and sister were both passengers in the vehicle and were seriously injured.
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.
Crash Victims Emotional Wedding Day Letter to his Parents
In a letter to his parents on his wedding day last year, Nachman Glauber prayed his marriage would give his parents joy — but he died before he could deliver it.
Yeshiva? Ya?
Up until a short while ago, that’s how your typical Russian University student would respond to the suggestion he go to Yeshiva. Me? Yeshiva? Enter Yeshivacation. A ten day getaway, packed with intellectual stimuli and excitement.
Baby Girl!
Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour (Great Neck, LI)
