A group of deaf bochurim rejoice with their friend, Isser Lubecki (Paris, France) who just got engaged to Hanaelle Israel (Sarcelle, France). Isser is known in his hometown for his enthusiasm for doing Mivtzoim, unhindered by his handicap.
More than 950 Montrealers of all ages gathered on Sunday, October 28th for a 3.3 kilometer trek around Hampstead Park to raise awareness and promote acceptance for children with autism and to raise funds for programming at the Friendship Circle.
At the Kinus Hasluchim Banquet a special video profiling the tri-state area Shluchim caught in Hurricane Sandys wrath. Rabbi Chaim Brikman, Chabad by the Ocean and Rabbi Eli Goodman, Chabad of Long Beach gave a tour of their personal devastation and how they mobilized to help out their communities.
Prominent Hasidic and Lithuanian Ultra-Orthodox rabbis are demanding that public institutions avoid installing self-locking door handles, which make it impossible to open rooms’ doors from the outside.
A young Jewish woman was viciously assaulted during an attempted robbery while walking on her way to work. A man approached her and without warning punched her in the face with such force that she was knocked out.
French photographer Mendel Benhamou went from table to table at the Kinus banquet taking pictures of the Shluchim from France.
The news quickly spread to the members of CTeen’s Teaneck, New Jersey chapter: Oceanside, New York was badly hurting from the fierce winds of Hurricane Sandy. Twelve volunteers sacrificed their day off from school and drove more than an hour to help the distressed residents of the Long Island town. As the van of teens approached the distraught neighborhood, the chaos and havoc they saw confirmed that what had been depicted in the news was no exaggeration.
Unique not only in its high-tech content but also in its political importance, a museum of Jewish history and culture opened to the public Sunday in Moscow, the capital of a nation beset by anti-Semitism for more than two centuries.
Ruvy Litzman (Monsey, NY) and Esther Caytak (Ottawa, Canada)
L’chaim will be Wednesday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
We present out readers with two videos, produced by CJ studios, of this year’s Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim.
Today at around 6:50pm, a Jewish woman was standing on Crown St. between Kingston and Albany Ave. using her iPhone, when it was suddenly snatched out of her hands by a thief.
Yossi and Nechama Dina (nee Keller) Saacks (Crown Heights)
A new Sefer Torah is paraded through the streets of Crown Heights before entering its home-to-be at Oihel Nosson. The Torah was written in memory of Rebbetzin Rochel Duchan, Shlucha in Cincinnati, Ohio, who passed away during childbirth 26 years ago. It was sponsored by her husband and eight children.
On Sunday, representatives of Neturei Karta participated in the annual memorial service in Ramallah marking the day of the passing of PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat. They stood out in the crowd in their black clothes, each wearing identification tags over a background of a Palestinian flag.
Young Shluchim-to-be in the Perl and Lezel families watch the Kinus Gala Banquet live from home on CrownHeights.info. The children had their own mini banquet, and drew pictures of themes connected to Shluchus.
Torrential rains in Israel have caused flooding in the town of Kfar Chabad. Unlike in Sandy-struck Brooklyn, however, the heavy rains were greeted with much joy by the Israelis, who are constantly in desperate need of water in the arid region.
An elderly Brooklyn woman died in a fast-moving, two-alarm blaze early Monday. The fire broke out about 4:35am in a deli on the ground floor of the apartment building on Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights, officials said.
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