Chabad of Dumbo Gets Its Own Torah
They have dedicated Torah’s in cities across China and Russia, and now the Kamhin families of Mexico and Hong Kong have continued their tradition by gifting a new Torah to Chabad of Dumbo, in Brooklyn, NY.
They have dedicated Torah’s in cities across China and Russia, and now the Kamhin families of Mexico and Hong Kong have continued their tradition by gifting a new Torah to Chabad of Dumbo, in Brooklyn, NY.
Levi Baumgarten (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Mushky Moskovits (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Motzei Shabbos at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Yitzi Blasenstein (Sydney, Australia) and Henny Simon (Crown Heights)
A stage set. A packed house. All eyes focused on the King of Chassidic Music with rapt attention, not wanting to miss a note of the soul stirring melodies.
Michael Bank (Los Angeles, CA) and Shaina Weiner (Los Angeles, CA)
Shmully Wolfson (Monsey, NY) and Rochel Fischel (Las Vegas, NV)
A news story involving Crown Heights Shomrim and an ‘attempted murder’ appeared on a Hebrew language Chabad news website, concerning a non-Jewish cleaning lady ‘who attempted to harm’ her Jewish employer with a knife. Shomrim fielded multiple calls from panicking residents as the story began making rounds on social media sites.
Early last May, a truck arrived at a leafy construction site in, Airmont, NY bearing an entire classroom wrapped in Tyvek. Just seven weeks later, and after many more trucks rolled in carrying similar loads, a two story, 24,000 square foot school building had completely risen from its concrete foundation.
Yeshivas Beis Menachem in Manalapan, NJ organized a Farbrengen for the local community in honor of the completion of Sefer Nashim in Rambam and the birthday of a local congregant. The Farbrengen was attended as well by several Skverer Chasidim.
Salvatore Perrone, AKA “John Doe Duffel Bag,” tha man accused of murdering three Brooklyn shopkeepers (two of whom were Jewish), has been frequenting shops around Boro Park over the last few months, sources have told CrownHeights.info.
As the New York City Police Department assesses the damage to its properties from Hurricane Sandy, including the loss of about 200 of its vehicles, NY1 has exclusive video of the heavily damaged 60th Precinct house in Coney Island, which was evacuated during the storm.
Danny Gerber (Toronto, Canada) and Hinda Levin (Philadelphia, PA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:00pm.
Efraim (ben Osher) Oster (Crown Heights) and Maryashi (bas Mottel) Caplan (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
In this week’s episode, Moshe goes to a creepy job interview on Thanksgiving day, and “The Jewperhero” is born.
Old phone booths in Manhattan’s Union Square are getting a modern makeover. Smart screens there display real-time local-based services, community information, current events and entertainment listings.
A gala dinner celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Ten Yad humanitarian organization in Brazil (not to be confused with the Crown Heights Kallah Gemach under the same name) was a fitting occasion for Maxim Vengerov to make a comeback.