Shabbos at the Besht: Can a Person Pray Happily?!
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Boruch Jacobson, Shliach in Hunter College will lead a discussion on the topic, “Can a person Pray and seriously and happily?!”
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New Engagement!
Kovi Kessler (Los Angeles, CA) and Esther Yukilevich (Huntington Beach, CA)
Baby Boy!
Shalom and Chana Pevzner (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Avi Tatarka (Melbourne, Australia) and Michla Andrusier (Crown Heights)
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Weekly Photo: From Days Gone By
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Chasidim putting on Tefilin with soldiers. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Baby Girl!
Berel and Mushka (nee Flint) Greenfeld (Crown Heights)
UN Recognizes Palestinian State
UN Headquarters in New York City
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to recognize a Palestinian state, a long-sought victory for the Palestinians but an embarrassing diplomatic defeat for the United States.
Muslim Extremists Murder Jewish Woman in Iran
Israel Hayom
A Jewish woman in Isfahan, Iran, was murdered and cut in half by Muslim extremists who wanted to take over her home, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.
As we recently reported, several weeks ago JEM held a breakfast for supporters who have assisted JEM’s efforts to record, preserve, and share the video, audio, and photographic recordings of the Rebbe’s life. The breakfast began with this emotional video about the My Encounter with the Rebbe project’s initiative to bring the actual interviewees into the schools and involve the children with the interview process.
Video: My Encounter Goes to School
As we recently reported, several weeks ago JEM held a breakfast for supporters who have assisted JEM’s efforts to record, preserve, and share the video, audio, and photographic recordings of the Rebbe’s life. The breakfast began with this emotional video about the My Encounter with the Rebbe project’s initiative to bring the actual interviewees into the schools and involve the children with the interview process.
A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.
NYPD Officer’s Kindness Sparks Online Sensation
A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.
Left: Roger Jacobs, a West Orange attorney, and Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum, executive director of the Friendship Circle of MetroWest, welcomed news that menora-lighting will be allowed in NJ prisons. Right: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
The inspiring glow of the Menorah will be experienced in New Jersey state prisons for the first time, thanks to a new ruling announced by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
Menorah Lighting Comes to New Jersey Prisons
Left: Roger Jacobs, a West Orange attorney, and Rabbi Zalman Grossbaum, executive director of the Friendship Circle of MetroWest, welcomed news that menora-lighting will be allowed in NJ prisons. Right: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
The inspiring glow of the Menorah will be experienced in New Jersey state prisons for the first time, thanks to a new ruling announced by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
1000s of Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruchs Distributed
As the 200th yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe approaches (24 Teves), the program to distribute his Shulchan Aruch HaRav continues. Thousands of sets of the Shulchan Aruch have been handed out in recent weeks in yeshivos and kollelim around Eretz Yisrael as well as to organized study groups of his works.
Ahavas Chesed Blood Drive Thursday
A blood drive will take place Thursday, November 29 (15 Kislev) from 3:00pm to 8:30pm at Ahavas Chesed, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and St. Johns Place]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification.
Warning: One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
NYC Goes Full Day Without Shooting or Stabbing!
AP
For the first time police officials can remember, New York City went through an entire day with no one shot, stabbed or slashed.
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Chabad Father-Son Team Looks Toward Expansion
Washington Jewish Week
At the start of their careers, young Chabad rabbis and their wives typically set out for a wilderness to be tamed: a Jewish area lacking a Chabad presence. There they drive in their stakes and go to work. As they push back the frontier, other, younger couples arrive to continue the expansion. That’s what Chabad emissaries, or shlichim, do.
Comedy Video: You Gotta Be in It to Win It!
Split the pot? Crack the safe! At this years Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society’s annual Miracles auction. Last years ‘split the pot’ reached $328,028 and this years is projected to reach a half-a-million! The auction takes place December 6th and an entertaining show will be brodcasted live. Buy tickets here!
Northwestern University Students Petition for Chabad
by Cat Zakrzewski – Daily Northwestern
Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of Chabad at Northwestern University, Illinois.
Northwestern students and alumni are voicing their concerns about the University’s decision to disaffiliate with Tannenbaum Chabad House and Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein in a petition distributed to trustees and administrators.
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