Last week, CGI Bat-Mitzvah Experience (B-ME) campers spent a whirlwind weekend in the Chabad enclave of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY, where they toured a slew of local attractions and significant locations including the Rebbe’s home, office and shul.
Greg Spurlock knows Naomi Zirkind as a woman who stays true to Jewish traditions and values while still being part of their group of military engineers. Her friends from synagogue, however, know her as a quiet and modest figure who inspires others with her wisdom and Jewish insight.
A New York City man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Wednesday in what experts said was the first ever federal conviction for illegally selling human kidneys for profit.
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Algemeiner Journal director Dovid Efune is demanding that the MTA remove inflammatory ads depicting Israel’s alleged encroachment of Palestinian territory from Long Island train stations. He explains why the ads are anti-Semitic in an interview with CBS News.
For most, the summer is about taking it easy – a brief respite from the usual hectic pace of our everyday lives. But some 30 young business owners and soon to be entrepreneurs are going full steam ahead, using the summer to jumpstart their big ideas. This Wednesday, they met at the CHYE Think Space for a workshop on Accounting 101 for Businesses, presented by Dovid Roitblatt of Better Accounting Solutions.
A pair of Christian missionaries have taken to Kingston Ave. in an effort to try and convince Lubavitchers that they know who Moshiach really is.
Ephraim and Henya (nee Mockin) Okunov (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 656 Crown St.
[between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
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Yom Kippur 1973. Israel finds itself attacked in the north by Syria and in the south by Egypt. The Almog family sends their two sons off to battle; Doron to the south and Eran to the north. Doron returns, but Eran bleeds to death in his tank in the Golan Heights. Doron vows never to leave a wounded soldier behind. Three years later, Doron Almog will lead Israeli forces 4,000 km to rescue Jews held hostage in Entebbe, Uganda.
Shuky and Mimi Minsky (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 633 East New York Ave.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Apt. 2LF
A synagogue in the Eastern Paris neighborhood of Noisy-le-Grand was vandalized three times in the past ten days. “I am 73 years old and I cried like a child,” synagogue caretaker Maurice Zana told Anach Infos, a French-language Chabad news website.
A vilifying cartoon portraying Jewish worshipers praying before the New York Stock Exchange has been declared the winner in Iran’s first annual International Wall Street Downfall Cartoon Festival on Monday.
A cool young couple heading out for a romantic meal on the up-and-coming western avenues of Crown Heights would have no end of artisanal cheeses and local wines to choose from. But a hand-crafted bouquet of flowers? Forget about it.
The Cunin family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Pinchus OBM, at 677 Crown St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.] until Tuesday morning.
Shachris: 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30
Mincha: 8:10
Maariv: Tzeis
Please send memories and condolences to: Cuninfamily@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
As a follow-up to my (controversial?) op-ed last week, and my comment there (#15), a truly amazing thing happened to me this past Shabbos that sent shivers through me. (It must be that either I am very far from Kedusha and Hashem wants me back, and/or readers of this article will have hischazkus from this.)
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Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released information pertaining to the population at the end of 2011, breaking down figures per city or yishuv. The census figures reveal that the population of Kfar Chabad, the largest Lubavitch community after Crown Heights, has reached 5,105, up 100 from a year earlier.
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