Photo Gallery: The Night Before
Bleachers are set up overnight in anticipation of the Kinus HaShluchim group portrait this morning. The bleachers were borrowed from the Bobover Chasidim in Boro Park.
Bleachers are set up overnight in anticipation of the Kinus HaShluchim group portrait this morning. The bleachers were borrowed from the Bobover Chasidim in Boro Park.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Zlata Gittel (Gustel) Adler, OBM, of London. She is survived by her children: Rabbi Shalom Adler, Shliach in Pinellas County, Florida; and Mrs. Raizy Hecht, Shlucha in Sandton, South Africa.
Moshe and Ita (nee Greenberg) Wircberg (Crown Heights)
Seven years after a groundbreaking ceremony for a new facility for Chabad of the East Valley, in Phoenix, AZ, construction has begun.
Thousands of Shluchim gathered after Shabbos for a grand Melave Malka in the Oholei Torah ballroom. Afterwards, they relocated to Beis Rivkah-Campus Chomesh for a general session themed “Hayom Yom: instilling a new spiritual strength in Shlichus every day.”
A fire erupted at a Midtown sushi restaurant last night after a worker haphazardly carried gasoline in soy sauce containers, sources said.
Standing on 22nd Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, Donal Holway was consumed with one thought: How could he get every rabbi’s face sharp and in focus?
While Sholom Ber Drizin has backed down from his demand that 770 Bochurim sign a letter of support for Eshel-Hachnosas Orchim in order to receive a coat from the Yeshiva’s Kupas Bochurim, Mendel Hendel obstinately refuses to allow the non-discriminatory distribution to begin.
Shimon and Chavie Stauss
960 S. Johns Pl. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Moshe and Devorah Leah (nee Carlebach) Avtzon
547 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Hershey and Chanie (nee Shepherd) Lazarus
750 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.] Apt. C5
Shneur and Sara (nee Barber) Seewald
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Chaim Dovber Lerman (Crown Heights) and Shaina Klein (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Eshel, 272 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Mordy Botnick (Ottawa, Canada) and Malkah Esther Rabinowitz (Montreal, Canada)
K’hal Chassidim, 1612 Carroll St. [corner Schenectady Ave.]
After meeting with the members of the Machne Israel Development Fund, the Rebbe blesses the Shluchim who brought their supporters, in the antechamber to his office. 3 Nissan, 5748 (1988).
Levi Tiechtel (Crown Heights) and Adina Shochet (Toronto, Canada)
L’chaim will be Sunday night at Beis Rivkah
310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Bringing together teens from eight cities up the Californian coast, the first CTeen Regional Shabbaton took place last Shabbos in sunny S. Diego, CA. The teens enjoyed a spirited Shabbos, complimented with trips to La Jolla Cove, scenic Torrey Pines, the newly opened Sky Zone and Belmont Park.
9:15 AM, Thursday morning. 65 Online School students were welcomed to a grand program at Oholei Torah.
The state of Amazon in Brazil increased its Jewish population by a fifth for three days this past Shabbos, when it hosted a Jewish singles shabbaton in a hotel in the Amazon rainforest. The event was organized by Chabad of Manaus, Amazon’s largest city, and attracted people from across Brazil and other South American countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay), who flew in for the amazing event. It even drew attention from singles in Miami, New York, and Israel. One person even flew in from Trinidad and Tobago.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again! Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.