Lubavitcher entertainers Benny Friedman and Mendy Pellin, will join in a long list of Jewish superstars who will be performing for the upcoming RCCS Miracles live comedy show and auction drawing, this December 6th. The event will be carried live on CrownHeights.info.
Chabad on Campus International Foundation has partnered with Alpha Epsilon Pi International, the largest Jewish fraternity, to ensure that every AEPi house will receive a Menorah kit including a Menorah, Chanukah guide, dreidels, chocolate gelt, and a “Chanukah Party Guide”. Kits are being sent to 170 AEPi chapters in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.
Yossi and Devorei (nee Kaplan) Raitport (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS — Satmar Chassidim gathered in the Bedford Avenue armory in Crown Heights Heights marking Kuf Alef Kislev, the day Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum Zt’l, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from Hungary during the holocaust.
Almost four years since the tragic passing of nine year old Levi Yitzchak Wolowik, son of the Chabad shluchim to the Five Towns, his parents, Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolowik of Woodmere, are marking what would be their son’s Bar Mitzvah with a special siyum in his memory.
In tonight’s Maariv prayers we begin saying Vesein Tal Umotor Livrocho in Shmoneh Esrei. The Crown Heights Beis Din has released a letter with some of the Halochos regarding this change and if one had forgotten to make it. The letter was compiled by Rabbi Levi Gorelik.
HADITCH, Ukrain — In a monumental ceremony the beautiful Heichal Admur Hazaken, a new Shul and welcome center near the gravesite of the Alter Rebbe, was dedicated on the anniversary marking 200 year for the Chag Hageulah and Rosh Hashana of Chasidus.
Monday, December 3, corresponding this year to 19 Kislev, is marked by Jewish communities around the world in commemoration of the 214th anniversary of Chabad’s founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi’s liberation from Czarist imprisonment. Known by the Hebrew dates, 19 Kislev, the day has since been celebrated as the Rosh Hashana—the New Year of Chasidic thought, and the start of a new epoch in the study of Jewish mysticism.
Hundreds of college students, faculty and community members are set to smash the Guinness World Record for dreidel spinning at a “spin-off” that will be the highlight of the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life’s Chanukah celebration on December 10 at Binghamton University in upstate New York.
Doodz New (Montreal, Canada) and Mushky Pinson (Crown Heights)
NACHLAOT, Israel — Students and community members of Nachlaot, came together as Yeshivas Bais Menachem, the RAP, got together to celebrate the Chag of Yud Tes Kislav.
A lovely Farbrengen held for the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway’s middle school (7th & 8th grades) with guest speaker Rabbi Willager PHD. Stories and inspirational words said by Rabbi Eckhaus, Rabbi Avtzon, Rabbi Harari and Mr. Hasis.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A collision between a speeding car and a mini school bus resulted in the injury of 7 children along with both drivers. A ‘mass casualty incident’ was declared by emergency medical personnel, and the victims were all transported to a local hospital.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano took a walking tour Sea Gate, which had some of the worst damage resulting from Hurricane Sandy.
TOULOUSE, France — French police on Tuesday arrested two alleged accomplices of gunman Mohamed Merah, whose Al-Qaeda-inspired shooting spree in and around the southern city of Toulouse earlier this year left seven people dead.
Hundreds gathered in 770 last night to celebrate Yud Tes Kislev with a Farbrengen. Photographer Itzik Roytman of ChabadPictures.com presents a photo gallery.
It is with profound sadness that we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Miriam Gordon, longtime Shlucha to Maplewood, NJ and the wife of Rabbi Sholom Ber Gordon OBM.
Rebbetzin Gordon passed on Monday evening in New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 87, surrounded by her children and grandchildren.
