Ohel’s Neighbors: This Year Went Smoother than Ever
NY Daily News
A plan to cope with an annual Orthodox Jewish pilgrimage to a Queens neighborhood made for one of the smoothest years ever, organizers and residents said.
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This Wednesday: First Yahrtzeit of Reb Zalman Kazen
This Wednesday, June 27, friends and family will gather to commemorate one year since the passing of Rabbi Zalman Kazen, OBM. The event will take place at Rabbi Shain’s Shul, 390 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.] at 8:00pm, beginning with Mincha, followed by the ceremony, Mishnayos and Maariv.
by Yonit Tanenbaum - Wall Street Journal
The walls of the concert hall nestled on a small side street in Brooklyn reverberate with the solid beats produced by a five-piece maple wood drum set. Lead singer and songwriter Perl Wolfe's warm voice rises and falls as her fingers dance gracefully across her Yamaha keyboard. The expressions on the faces of the all-female audience exude their intense enjoyment of the performance.
Rock and Roll Meets Hasidic Brooklyn
by Yonit Tanenbaum – Wall Street Journal
The walls of the concert hall nestled on a small side street in Brooklyn reverberate with the solid beats produced by a five-piece maple wood drum set. Lead singer and songwriter Perl Wolfe‘s warm voice rises and falls as her fingers dance gracefully across her Yamaha keyboard. The expressions on the faces of the all-female audience exude their intense enjoyment of the performance.
Photos: Arrival and First Day at YSP!
Photos: Avrohom Perl for yspmorristown.com
Finding luggage, choosing rooms, unpacking and getting assigned to bunks is all just part of the fun of arriving at camp. Here is a photo gallery of Bochurim arriving at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
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Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, devout chossid of the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rabbe, at the age of 94. Reb Yossel, as he was affectionately known, was the author of Lessons in Tanya, a multivolume commentary on the fundamental work on Chabad philosophy written by the Alter Rebbe, which was personally edited by the Rebbe.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Zeev Volf Nisnevitch at the age of 99. Reb Zeev Volf, a longtime Crown Heights resident, merited to see three Rabbeim in his lifetime, and fought in the underground to bring Jewish education to children in communist Russia.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Reb Zeev Volf Nisnevitch, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Zeev Volf Nisnevitch at the age of 99. Reb Zeev Volf, a longtime Crown Heights resident, merited to see three Rabbeim in his lifetime, and fought in the underground to bring Jewish education to children in communist Russia.
Chicago Chabad Center in Foreclosure
Chicago Tribune
Chaya Moscowitz, left, daughter of Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun, leads a study group for women Tuesday at the Chabad House of the Loop.
Seven years ago, Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park took out a $4.9 million loan to build what was supposed to be a state-of-the-art synagogue and community center at Chestnut and Clark streets.
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Hakeem Jeffries Easily Beats Charles Barron
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Left: Hakeem Jeffries. Right: Charles Barron.
Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries trounced firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron, a former Black Panther with a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, Tuesday night in the Democratic primary to represent Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional District.
Five Car Collision Injures Ten Near Prospect Park
Ten people were injured, including four Jews, after a ‘dollar van’ slammed into a car that was waiting at a red light on Ocean and Parkside Ave. at the edge of Prospect Park, causing a chain collision involving five vehicles.
Children Graduate Hebrew School in Scotland’s Capital
80 people – children, parents and grandparents – filled the Lubavitch Centre in Glasgow, Scotland for the annual Hebrew School Graduation, Prize Giving and tea reception.
Google Brings Free Wi-Fi to Some Subway Stations
NY Times
This summer, New York subway riders might be able to actually get some work done on the train (rather than just beating their high scores in Angry Birds). Beginning Monday, free Wi-Fi will be available at a number of stations courtesy of Google.
Dutch Princess Inaugurates Jewish Museum
Princess Maxima of the Netherlands formally inaugurated a new building at the Jewish museum in the Dutch city of Elburg on Wednesday. Located about 50 miles northeast of Amsterdam, Elburg was once home to more than 100 Jewish residents, who prayed in the synagogue that was converted into the museum four years ago.
German Court Outlaws Bris Milah
The district court of Cologne, Germany ruled this week that religious circumcision of a child is harmful and that a parent’s jurisdiction over his child does not extend to the practice of circumcision.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's chief rabbi Berel Lazar visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem today, June 26, 2012. After saying a prayer at the wall as customary, Mr. Putin requested a tour of the temple mount tunnels, which they were promptly given by the Kotel's rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Photos: Putin Visits Western Wall with Rabbi Lazar
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem today, June 26, 2012. After saying a prayer at the wall as customary, Mr. Putin requested a tour of the temple mount tunnels, which they were promptly given by the Kotel’s rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.
Nearly a Quarter of Brooklyn’s Residents Are Jewish
NY Daily News
Kings County is the most Kosher jurisdiction in the nation. A new study has found that nearly one in four Brooklynites are Jews – making the borough home to the most Jews of any county in the country.
Photos: Parksville Gan Israel Heads Off to Camp
Camp Gan Israel of Parksville, NY set off this morning for the first month of summer up in the Catskill Mountains.
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