Last Friday was the finale of the JCC Maccabi Games in Memphis, Tennessee. The games lasted five days with over 1,250 young Jewish athletes and several thousand guests who came from across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Israel.
Menachem Krinsky (New Hampshire) and Rivka Siegel (Los Angeles, CA)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday at 1393 Carroll St.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
A crown that was stolen from a synagogue has finally been returned to its rightful place.
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Yesterday, TV and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck read an excerpt from ‘Toward a Meaningful Life,’ a book by Rabbi Simon Jacobson on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Montreal enjoyed an overnight camping and paintball shooting trip.
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As the school year approaches, several Crown Heights institutions have been revamping their campuses for the benefit of students and faculty members. Among the schools getting a facelift were Oholei Torah, Lubavitcher Yeshiva and Beis Rivkah.
A short month ago, on the 25th of Tammuz, a memorable and historic day was celebrated in CGI Florida. The entire camp, all staff & campers, gathered for the printing of the 1st-ever Tanya by CGI Florida and the city of Groveland, FL.
Levi and Rochel (nee Deitsch) Eisenberg (Crown Heights)
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Shadora.com is an online discount jewelry retailer run by sisters Shoshanah Posner of Crown Heights and Devorah Schectman of Miami. A member of the 1saleaday.com family, Shadora takes advantage of low overhead costs and high volume to offer competitive prices on its jewelry.
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The first group of Lubavitcher Rabbonim enrolled in a new Dayonus program have received Yoden Yoden in Jerusalem last week. The Rabbonim are Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Marlow – the Rov of Anash in North Miami, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Cohen – Shliach to Sacramento and author of Margolis Menachem on Rambam and Raived, and Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Schuchat – Dayan on the Beis Din of Agudas HoRabonim (who was not able to be in Israel at the time).
A time-lapse video by Yankee Teitelbaum of Mikvah Mei Chaya Mushka being built on the corner of Lefferts and Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.
Kaylee Andrusier’s Bat Mitzvah celebration wasn’t about the party or the gifts. For the Bal Harbour, Fla., resident, it was about bringing happiness to fellow 12-year-old girls living in the shadow of Palestinian rocket fire.
Shmulik and Chaya (nee Levin) Gurary (Baltimore, MD)
Joe Kubert, a titan among comic-book artists whose work included ‘The Adventures of Yaakov and Yosef’ comic strip which appeared in The Moshiach Times, died on Sunday in Morristown, N.J. He was 85.
Camp Mesorah experienced a truly monumental color war breakout, when a Barack Obama look-alike paid a visit to the camp in order to announce the annual summer competition.
The controversy had sparked a national debate, raucous protests in the streets and the collapse of a historic government. That came in the months after the Israeli Supreme Court had nullified a law exempting haredi Orthodox Israelis from military service and given the government until Aug. 1 to draft a replacement law.
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