Pictures from the L’chaim of Shuey Goldstein (Crown Heights) and Shiffy Gottlieb (Crown Heights), which took place on Thursday, June 14 at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Professor Shlomo Eckstein is the former President and Rector of Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv. He shares an insight the Rebbe gave him in his youth, which he has carried with him throughout his lifelong career in education.
Leibel and Mindy (nee Tauber) Wallach
536 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yechiel and Dina Schmerling
730 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Tzvi Hirsch and Chani (nee Goldman) Altein
860 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Zalman and Dabrusha Bruchstat
313 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Levi Garelik will lead a discussion on the topic: “So what happened on Gimmel Tammuz?”
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of the Rebbe attending children’s rallies in the years 5717 (1957) and 5723 (1963). With special thanks to Rabbi Harlig and Rabbi Levin.
Lewin & Lewin, LLP, filed today a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the New York City Police Department, the City of New York, and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly on behalf of Fishel Litzman, a Probationary Police Officer who was discharged less than one month before he completed six months of training at the Police Academy because he refused, for religious reasons, to trim his beard.
Hillsboro was a city without a Jewish presence. When Carolyn Stearns moved to the town outside Portland, Ore., five years ago with her new husband Daniel, the Brooklyn, N.Y., transplant felt out of place.
Ever since his instatement as a member of the Crown Heights Beis Din, R. Yosef Braun has used the “Machlokes box” in 770 as her personal mouthpiece. Recently, in a clear effort to try and consolidate his control over the Crown Heights community, a sign went up saying that no one is allowed to be Mesader Kidushin in Crown Heights except for the members of the Beis Din.
Mendy Gelman (Melbourne, Australa) and Ricky Amzalak (Sydney, Australia)
Leibel and Mindy (nee Tauber) Wallach (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 536 Crown St.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
The occasion was the White House celebration of American Jewish Heritage Month on May 30th, at which some 200 guests enjoyed glatt kosher food, under the supervision of Chabad of Washington in conjunction with the Rabbinical Council of Greater Washington. Rabbi Levi Shemtov of the Chabad of Greater Washington supervised the kosher fare at the event, which included an impressive delegation of the kosher food industry, headed by Alain Bankier of Manischewitz, Greg Rosenbaum of Empire Kosher and Yakov Yarmove of SuperValu.
Shneur Hecht (Chicago, IL) and Mushkie Weinbaum (London, UK)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — “His helmet definitely saved his life,” is what an emergency worker had to say after treating the rider of a motorcycle who crashed into a car on Eastern Parkway. This accident comes just two days after another accident claimed the life of a 24-year-old woman on Empire Boulevard.
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They don’t want to admit it, but a lot of working dads don’t want to be around their kids. That sounds so horrible. And, in fact, it’s incredibly sad. Because, for many, the solution is a lot closer than believed, once you step back and take the time to see what’s really going on.
Hundreds of friends and supporters of Chabad in Berlin gathered for an evening of thanks and recognition for those who helped make the Jewish center’s activities a reality in the past 15 years.
Over 200 people gathered together last night at Chabad of Boca Raton, FL to witness the Chag HaSmicha – the Ordination of the 14 members of inaugural class of Machon Menachem. A palpable sense of history pervaded the air as the first ever Rabbis to be trained and ordained in Palm Beach county received their Semicha.
It is the most vibrant and powerful demographic, yet it was almost untouched. Overlooked for years by some because of its complex ideology and spirit, teenage outreach was scarce.
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