Dushinsky Rebbe Visits ‘Our Big Kitchen’
Chabad’s Our Big Kitchen in Sydney was honored with a visit by the Dushinsky Rebbe from Jerusalem, who travelled to Australia to be mechazek the Kehilos of Sydney and Melbourne.
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New Engagement!
Danny Bendelman (Toronto, Canada) and Shoshana Goldlioust (Toronto, Canada)
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London Lubavitch Boys’ School Wins State Funding
Jewish Chronicle
Lubavitch Boys’ Junior School in Stamford Hill, London.
A third Lubavitch school in the United Kingdom has succeeded in securing voluntary-aided status, allowing most of its tuition costs to be met by the state.
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Avrumi and Rochel Steinmetz
1690 Union St. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.] Apt. 4A
Sholom and Chaya (nee Altein) Kramer
620 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Lipa and Alexsandra (nee Diament) Lieberman
866 Eastern Parkway [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. 6D
Aryeh and Rochel (nee Novoseletsky) Hoffman
CGI Morristown Wraps Up Exciting First Week
Over 350 children in 5 divisions (boys, girls, kiddie, chayal and CIT) enjoyed a full range of activities, including sports and swim instruction, drama, arts, cooking and much more during their first week at Camp Gan Israel of Morristown, NJ. The highlights were the three trips: to FunZone, Glow in the Dark Golf and Imagine That.
Shabbos at the Besht: Deeper Meaning of 12 Tammuz
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic: The Deeper Meaning of Yud Beis Tammuz.
Campus Chabad House Directors Attend Conference
by Tamar Runyan – Chabad.edu
Photos by Bentzi Sasson – Chabad.edu
Hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries serving college campuses from around the world have gathered at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center in Connecticut for the 11th annual Chabad on Campus International Emissaries Conference that ends yesterday.
Students Graduate Monsey Cheder
This past Wednesday night, Cheder Chabad of Monsey held its third 8th grade graduation for the boys divison.
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Just in time for summer, a Russian ice cream company produced a special kosher line of the frozen dessert. The Stavropol-based company approached the kosher department of the Russian Chief Rabbinate headed by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar about launching a production line that would be acceptable to Jewish dietary laws.
Six Varieties of Kosher Ice Cream Produced in Russia
Just in time for summer, a Russian ice cream company produced a special kosher line of the frozen dessert. The Stavropol-based company approached the kosher department of the Russian Chief Rabbinate headed by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar about launching a production line that would be acceptable to Jewish dietary laws.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present three newly-released vintage photos of the Rebbe:
Dressing With Faith, Not Heat, in Mind
NY Times
When the mercury passes 90, most New Yorkers start to wilt. Many resort to shorts and tank tops, even in the office. More than a few bankers and lawyers reach for their seersuckers.
Letter: To the Woman Who Dented My New Minivan
by Anonymous
Dear Jewish woman who dented the side of my brand new minivan,
My non-Jewish neighbors tell me that they urged you to leave a note with your number on it, but when I found it on my windshield it was just a bunch of illegible scribbles.
The Segal family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and grandfather, Yitzchak OBM, at 910 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.] Friday after 4:00pm. Please come and help with the minyan.
Please send memories and condolences to: shaptaisegal@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Please send memories and condolences to: shaptaisegal@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She'ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Info to Be Menachem Avel the Segal Family
The Segal family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and grandfather, Yitzchak OBM, at 910 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.] Friday after 4:00pm. Please come and help with the minyan.
Please send memories and condolences to: shaptaisegal@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
NY Daily News
New York City Mayor David Dinkins presided over the botched police response to the Crown Heights riots in 1991.
Ed Koch has a bridge named after him, so why not David Dinkins? That’s the question City Councilman Fernando Cabrera will ask Thursday when he introduces a bill to rename the Willis Avenue Bridge after New York’s first and only African-American mayor.
Politicians Want Bridge Named After Mayor Dinkins
NY Daily News
New York City Mayor David Dinkins presided over the botched police response to the Crown Heights riots in 1991.
Ed Koch has a bridge named after him, so why not David Dinkins? That’s the question City Councilman Fernando Cabrera will ask Thursday when he introduces a bill to rename the Willis Avenue Bridge after New York’s first and only African-American mayor.
by Daniel K. Eisenbud - Jerusalem Post
Illustration photo
Like many uninformed, non-observant Jews, I made the mistake of generalizing that all ultra-Orthodox Jews were singularly insulated, inaccessible and elitist. For the better part of my life, any time I saw a man on the street wearing a black fedora, suit and tzitzit, I registered an almost Pavlovian reflex of discomfort, assuming the person in question would view me as an inferior Jew.
“Thank You Chabad, I’m Sorry I Misjudged You”
by Daniel K. Eisenbud – Jerusalem Post
Illustration photo
Like many uninformed, non-observant Jews, I made the mistake of generalizing that all ultra-Orthodox Jews were singularly insulated, inaccessible and elitist. For the better part of my life, any time I saw a man on the street wearing a black fedora, suit and tzitzit, I registered an almost Pavlovian reflex of discomfort, assuming the person in question would view me as an inferior Jew.
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Chicago Chabad House Avoids Foreclosure
Left: Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop. Right: Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun with Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
A Chicago Chabad House avoided foreclosure by filing for bankruptcy. The brownstone housing the Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park was to have gone on the auction block Wednesday, but the bankruptcy filing this week gave Chabad additional time to repay a bank loan, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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