Baby Girl!
Shimy and Devorah Leah (nee Rodal) Heidingsfeld (Moorpark, CA)
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Boxing Champ Visits Chabad House in Hometown
Puerto Rican boxing champion Miguel Cotto paid a visit to Chabad of Puerto Rico in San Juan recently, according to a post on the center’s Facebook page. Cotto is known to some in the Jewish community as the fighter that stole the crown from Hasidic boxing Champion Yuri Foreman in an epic Yankee Stadium bout on June 5th, 2010.
Authorities arrested a man they said stole a $450 silver crown from a Hollywood synagogue and then sold it for profit in North Miami.
Man Arrested for Stealing Crown from Chabad House
Authorities arrested a man they said stole a $450 silver crown from a Hollywood synagogue and then sold it for profit in North Miami.
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“Never Send Your Kids to Yeshiva”
Considering sending your child to yeshiva? Think again. Or rather, don’t send them. So I learned from my grandfather, the esteemed Lubavitcher chosid, Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kazarnovsky. He planted this seed in my head over 30 years ago, on a walk down Nashville’s stately West End Avenue going home from my father’s shul to my parent’s home at the corner of Whitland and Leonard.
Two Hatzolah EMS volunteers responded to a call for an individual who was in diabetic shock near Woodridge's Village Hall Wednesday night, when they were ticketed by 'Police Chief' (the town has only two police officers) John Calvello for “unlawful use of red lights.”
Hatzalah Paramedics Ticketed in Catskills Town
Two Hatzolah EMS volunteers responded to a call for an individual who was in diabetic shock near Woodridge’s Village Hall Wednesday night, when they were ticketed by ‘Police Chief’ (the town has only two police officers) John Calvello for “unlawful use of red lights.”
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Moshe and Zeesy (nee Klein) Grossbaum
1582 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Zalman Shimon and Chaya Mushka (nee Hecht) Wolf
35 Balfour Place
Yossi and Chani Okunov
656 Crown St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Ephraim and Devora (nee Katz) Piekarski
Kozy Acres, Monticello, NY Unit #29
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Lubavitcher Bochur to Page at Republican Convention
Lubavitcher Bochur Yosef Abrahamson has been selected to receive the very competitive and prestigious honor to serve as a Page for the Republican National Convention, where Mitt Romney will be officially nominated to run for president. The convention will take place at the end of August in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of farbrengens with the Rebbe in the mid 1970s.
Bochurim Learn Shchita in Brunoy
While many other parts of the continent continue to institute restrictions and bans on the practice, the Bochurim in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France learned the ancient Jewish laws of compassionate slaughter – Shchita.
Shabbos at the Besht: Is Judaism a Religion?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shmuel Kopel will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘is Judaism a religion?’
Photos: Children’s Sifrei Torah Throughout the Years
In honor of the completion of the fifth Sefer Torah for Jewish children, we present this collection of photos of brochures for ‘Os B’sefer Torah’ since the Mivtza’s inception in 1981.
JLI’s National Jewish Retreat Makes Waves in Florida
The National Jewish Retreat held this past week in Weston, Florida, was a sold-out phenomenon that drew on an international roster of speakers, teachers and outstanding personalities from the business and academic worlds. Some 800 Jews from all over the world gathered for five days of inspiration and learning sponsored by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).
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Video: Embracing the Web to Spread Judaism
In a video series titled ‘Tangled Web,’ NY1 has waded into the touchy subject of Orthodox Jewry’s relationship with the internet. While the first three videos shared stories about rabbis trying to limit access to the Internet, the fourth report covers the rabbis who want people to make their site, Chabad.org, the go-to place for all Jewish learning.
770 Communications Room Gets New Floor, Purpose
Crown Heights icon Rabbi Chaim Baruch Halberstam has moved from his Shlichus in WLCC to a new shlichus; this time it is in the room where he started off.
“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.
Leiby’s Butcher Pleads Guilty
“Brooklyn Butcher” Levi Aron, who lured a lost boy into his sick lair last year before murdering the child and chopping up his body, pleaded guilty today in a deal that spared the victim’s family the heartache of an emotional trial.
Photos: Thousands Get Sneak Preview of New Album
Thousands attended a concert earlier this week at ‘The Sultan’s Pool’ in Jerusalem featuring Hasidic superstar Avraham Fried, who mesmerized the crowd with songs from his new album, as well as a medley of Chabad nigunim.
Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.
Op-Ed: Top 10 Non-Jews Influencing the Jewish Future
Two years ago, following the release of the Jerusalem Post’s first list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews, I was inspired to initiate an annual list of my own. Not of Jews, but of non- Jews, specifically those who are most positively influencing the Jewish future.
