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Christopher Colvill, 41, of Liberty, New York was sentenced today to three to six years in prison for his role in stealing and possessing a $35,000 Torah scroll from the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello last December in order to collect the $6,000 reward money. Colvill was also fined $5,000.
Mendy and Chaya (nee Goldstein) Zarchi (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 770 Montgomery St.
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Two Rabbis from New York made their way through Lewiston, Idaho Monday as part of the Idaho “Roving Rabbi” tour.
A Grand Children’s Tzivos Hashem Rally in honor of Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul, along with an exciting acrobat show by The Twins from France, was held today in the Oholei Torah Ballroom, with participation of Machane Mamosh, Gan Menachem, Ohr Menachem and the Oholei Torah Kindergarten Day Camp.
Is Chabad Lubavitch? Is Lubavitch Chabad? Are the two terms – “Chabad” and “Lubavitch” – synonymous? Chabad is an acronym; Lubavitch is a town. Chabad represents a hassidic philosophy; Lubavitch the ancestral home of a hassidic court. They are not synonymous. Cryptic though it may sound, Lubavitch is Chabad, but Chabad is not only Lubavitch.
Two days after trying to force his way into a Montgomery St. home, Crown Heights’ late-night thief was back in action. Surveillance video caught this unidentified middle-aged African-American male stealing a bicycle from inside the 580 Crown St. condos at around 5:00am last Thursday.
Following 15 years of education and hundreds of alumni from around the world, Yeshivat Tzeirei HaShluchim has announced that it will be closed for the upcoming school year in order to implement a massive renewal plan, promising to “fundamentally alter the way the yeshiva is organized and run.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Cowen and his wife Mushkie (nee Stempel) were sent from Crown Heights this week to Humboldt State University in northern California to open a new Chabad Center.
Moishie Gourarie (Postville, IA) and Chanale Fellig (Coconut Grove, FL)
As the summer draws to a close, bochurim attending the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ bid farewell at the grand banquet to their newly-found friends and dedicated counselors and teachers. The next morning they packed their luggage and boarded the buses which would take them back home.
The following editorial, on what world Jewry an learn from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, appeared in the Washington Jewish Week.
Yitzy and Menucha (nee Fajnland) Geisinsky (Crown Heights)
Although we are meeting precious Jewish souls on a daily basis, there are those who stand out; whose stories beg to be told.
Meet Yoram, an Israeli, who has lived in Ireland for 26 years and established himself as a prominent Celtic artist.
Readers of the Riverdale Press responded with disgust and indignation over the newspaper’s publication of a letter written by Patty Goldstein, in which she launches a false and malicious attack against Chabad, calling the movement “a vile, racist, Jewish supremacist organization.”
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Parksville enjoyed the summer’s grand trip to Lake Compounce, an amusement park in Connecticut.
The South African maker of molded foam seats that help babies sit up is recalling about 4 million of the chairs because of safety problems. Babies can get hurt falling out of the seats.
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