Yeshiva? Ya?
Up until a short while ago, that’s how your typical Russian University student would respond to the suggestion he go to Yeshiva. Me? Yeshiva? Enter Yeshivacation. A ten day getaway, packed with intellectual stimuli and excitement.
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Yitzchok and Tamar Chayempour (Great Neck, LI)
Video: A [Slightly Eccentric] Weekly Torah Thought
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Vayakhel and Pekudei, titled ‘Yes! You Can!’.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: ‘Uncle Yossi’ Goldstein OBM
This morning Rabbi Yossi Goldstein, veteran educator passed away at the age of 85. He was most known for his tape series Uncle Yossi, which told over Jewish stories with profound lessons.
CKids 1st Anniversary, 275% Membership Increase
Just a modest Pesach pilot program for 80 shluchim last year, CKids, now a year-round ready-to-go kids program with 300 shluchim members, is celebrating its first anniversary of lifting shluchim’s burden of preparing children’s programs—for every Shabbos and yom tov of the year.
Baby Girl!
Moshe and Chana Esther (nee Brennan) Lewis (Crown Heights)
Hah! You Call This a Storm?
Today’s expected nor’easter will not be the heavy storm originally forecast, as the city will see only a light coating of wet snow this morning — and it will all melt by the afternoon.
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French Bistro Goes Kosher, A 1st for Park Slope
Park Slope has not been home to a kosher restaurant, well, ever. That changed when owners of a popular authentic French Bistro decided to make a change. Along with a new name, a French chef and Kosher certification, Chagall reopened earlier this week.
How Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews Celebrate Pesach
Chabad Of Western Monmouth County held a lecture on understanding the differences between how Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews celebrate Pesach.
Caught: Hit and Run Fugitive Arrested
The man wanted for the hit-and-run that killed a young Brooklyn couple was taken into custody by authorities in Pennsylvania, the NYPD said.
NY Post
Campus Chabad Houses Host Regional Shabbatons
During the fall semester hundreds of students converged on Crown Heights for the Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton. Now, during the spring semester, Chabad Houses on campus, in conjunction with Chabad on Campus International Foundation, have been hosting regional Shabbatons across North America as part of the Chabad on Campus Intercollegiate Series.
Cops Hurt While Chasing Car Burglar
A routine call alerting Shomrim to a suspicions person turned into a full blown chase with a police lieutenant and sergeant getting injured. The suspect, who had broken into a car and stole a radio, managed to get away by hopping over fences and garages.
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Yakov Tzvi and Yuti (nee Rosenfeld) Kantor (Lugano, Switzerland)
Music Month at Bnos Chomesh
It’s Music Month again at Bnos Chomesh and the students are loving it! You would too, if every day that you came to school there were special musical surprises for an entire month.
Circus Coming to Barclays this Pesach
After selling hundreds of tickets to members of Crown Heights for the Helfgot / Perlman Chazanus Concert at the Barclays Center, Mesivta Chovevei Torah is now selling tickets to the Ringling Brothers Circus also at the Barclays Center this Chol Hamoed Pesach.
New Engagement!
Meir (ben Zalman) Fellig (Miami, FL) and Chaya (bas Mendy) Korf (Miami, FL)
New Engagement!
Uri Bublil (Israel) and Rivki Kopfstein (London, England)
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