Meet another member of South Florida’s many-sided faith community. This week we’re talking with Rabbi Meir Kessler, co-director with wife Fruma of the Jewish Recovery Center, Boca Raton.
Hannah Dimbert and Hannah Otis, both recent graduates of Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, tied for first place in the national Yeshiva University Girls’ High School Bekiut competition. The contest, in its fifth year, tests the girl’s knowledge and analysis of Talmud on an academic level.
About an hour ago a black Mercedes, driven by an African-American male, was speeding at almost 100 MPH down Carroll St. toward New York Ave., as if it were the NASCAR race track. Sure enough, the vehicle lost control and crashed into a Lincoln ‘livery cab’ driven by a Hispanic male, which went crashing into the yard of an adjacent home.
Maybe it’s the urban dwelling of the future: studio apartments measuring no more than 300 square feet (About 17 feet from wall to wall).
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Zalman Deren spends his days studying the Torah in a small synagogue near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. He’s young and able-bodied, with a wife and three children to feed, but has no job because that would distract him from his vocation.
At around 3:00pm today, two police cars from the 71st Precinct were speeding up Rogers Ave. with their lights flashing and sirens on, presumably responding to an emergency call, when they drove through a red light at the intersection of Lefferts Ave.
Chabad of Tribeca/Soho, directed by Rabbi Zalman and Chani Paris, is taking over the space at 54 Reade (at Broadway) that’s currently home to the Quad Manhattan.
The Bochurim and Hanhala of the Lubavitch Mesivta in Golders Green, London, pose for a group photo.
A CrownHeights.info reader observed a collector of recyclable bottles having a rough day. It brings to mind the timeless Talmudic Adage “if you grab too much you grab nothing.”
A Blood Drive will take place today, July 10 (20 Tammuz) from 3:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Ahavas Chesed, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and St. Johns Pl.]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification. One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
Yossi Stern (London, UK) and Chaya Hershkop (Crown Heights)
935 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Yossi (ben R’ Avrohom Yitzchok, OBM) Silverstein (Crown Heights) and Peshy Weissman (South Africa / Baltimore, MD)
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Thousands have signed an online petition, hosted on the Jewish Press website, against a ban on ritual circumcision dictated by a German court in Cologne.
Another important date for jailed kosher meatpacking CEO Sholom Rubashkin looms July 25, when the U.S. government is scheduled to file a brief that will likely ask the Supreme Court not to hear Rubashkin’s case.
The girls of camp Emunah’s Junior division were split up into two teams for color war: Team Eretz Yisroel (blue) and team Chutz La’aretz (red), representing the two different approaches to bringing Moshiach.
This may be one of the reasons why Facebook was created. Rabbi Dovid Zaklikowski has created a beautiful Facebook page/group, where Lubavitch Archives features many never-before-seen vintage pictures of happenings in the Lubavitcher community and within Chabad’s activities.
Campers at Gan Israel of Detroit, Michigan enjoy their first week of learning and fun.
Yossi Stern (London, UK) and Chaya Hershkop (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at 935 Eastern Parkway
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
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