There were no caps and gowns, but there was no shortage of proud parents at the Chabad of Venice and North Port’s Hebrew school graduation.
Pictures from the wedding of Danny Weiss (Agora Hills, CA) and Mushka Weiss (Pittsburgh, PA), which took place on June 6th at the Soldiers and Sailors Hall in Pittsburgh.
During the the Queen of Great Britain’s 60th Jubilee – on Monday, June 4th, Nechamie Sudak ran a successful Craft Fun Day for the children of Edgeware while they were off from school for the holiday.
Ahead of Gimmel Tammuz, Chabad Israeli Centers, a special division of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, with the organizational assistance of a group of Israeli Bochurim, will hold a special event at the Ohel for Israeli expatriates and Hebrew-speakers from the New York area.
Naftoli Hertz Hildeshaim (Crown Heights) and Rochel Leah (Bas R’ Gavriel) Gopin (Crown Heights)
I learned about Contempt of Court in Elementary School. The teacher spoke about automobile drivers obeying stop signs. Why should they? “Why should we obey any signs?” she asked. Our young minds grappled with the question but couldn’t come up with an answer that our teacher could not refute. “So what if you got caught,” she argued, “could we really go to jail for not obeying a sign – how silly!”
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Rabbi Zalman Bukiet’s usually enthusiastic voice was even more filled with pride and excitement as he described his hopes for his South Florida congregation’s ambitious expansion plans. Having recently purchased $900,000 worth of land, Chabad-Lubavitch of West Boca Raton is setting out to build a permanent home in Palm Beach County.
On Sunday evening, 20 Sivan, R’ Meir Harlig of Crown Heights visited Yeshiva Torah Ohr in North Miami Beach, Florida.
Hundreds attended the Family Activity Day hosted by the FBI on Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. today.
Concerned members of the Crown Heights community gathered today in the basement of 580 Crown St. for a seminar on combating child abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community.
The following are the lucky winners of the Kids’ Chinese Auction, which took place this afternoon at Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown St.:
All competent rabbinic authorities are in agreement that cases of child abuse should be reported to law enforcement. Agudath Israel of America nevertheless requires parents to obtain rabbinic permission before reporting abuse to authorities. Although in the overwhelming majority of cases, abuse allegations turn out to be accurate, there has been a minority of cases in which innocent individuals were wrongly charged with abuse crimes. These individuals were vindicated only after lengthy proceedings. Therefore, some rabbis feel that in a case where there are no witnesses to the abuse and there is only one victim, who is a minor, a rabbi should assess the validity of the allegations before the accusations are brought to the police.
Nussen and Fraidy (nee Light) Lurie (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Pinchas Abuhatzeira, the great-grandson of the Babi Sali, is Israel’s richest rabbi, with an estimated fortune of NIS 1.3 billion, according to the “Forbes Israel’s” ranking of Israel’s ten richest rabbis. The magazine says that the social protest hurt the fortunes of the rabbis’ by greatly reducing their income from donations from tycoons.
In a futuristic take on his hit song ‘Hang Up The Phone,’ from his blockbuster album Leap of Faith, Lipa Schmeltzer teams up with producer and director Danny Finkelman to tackle our generation’s ever growing infatuation with gadgets head-on, in a music video that is both sci-fi and practical advice for today’s technologically obsessed society.
The following article is an editorial transcript of stories from the alumni Farbrengen with Rabbi Yaakov Goldberg, which celebrated Hadar Hatorah Yeshivah’s historic milestone – its 50th anniversary – on Shabbos Parshas Naso, 5772.
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Chabad.org’s Jewish.tv has a new video series for children: Mitzvah Island, directed by Rabbi Dovid Taub of the Itche Kadoozy show fame.
