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Baby Boy!
Avraham Yosef and Simcha (nee Korchowsky) Baez (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 701 Empire Blvd.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.] Apt. 6F
Photos: Preparations in Full Swing at the Ohel
As thousands of Jews from all walks of life prepare to visit the Rebbe’s resting place in Cambria Heights, Queens for his Yom Hilula this weekend, the administrators of the Ohel and its adjacent Chabad House, under the directorship of Rabbi Abba Refson, are in full gear preparing to accommodate the multitude of visitors, and make their time spent there as comfortable as possible.
Just in time for Gimmel Tammuz, a new film has been released focusing on the Rebbe’s relationships with five of Israel’s heads-of-state.
New Video: Faithful and Fortified – The Prime Ministers
Just in time for Gimmel Tammuz, a new film has been released focusing on the Rebbe’s relationships with five of Israel’s heads-of-state.
New Engagement!
Menachem Mendel Stiefel (Montreal, Canada) and Chana Herson (Rockaway, NJ)
Chabad of N. Palm Beach Island Wins Council Approval
Palm Beach Daily News
With a promise to limit the number of congregants to 40 and withdrawal of plans for day care, Rabbi Zalman Levitin and his attorney Brian M. Seymour received the Town Council’s blessing to operate a synagogue at 361 S. County Road.
Photos: Chabad of Hunterdon County Gala Dinner
HAMPTON, NJ [CHI] — Chabad of Hunterdon County, NJ, marked their 9th year of servicing the local Jewish community with their annual gala dinner. Under the leadership of Rabbi Eli and Rachel Kornfeld, they have pledge to find a permanent home and increase in growth.
Child Struck by Car After Darting Out into Street
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A 4-year-old child was struck by a car on Eastern Parkway’s service lane. The child, along with his family, was in front of Oholei Torah taking pictures ahead of a Simcha that was taking place.
Tonight: A Taste of the Rebbe’s Torah
Tonight, Thursday at the Beis Eliezer Yitzchok Shul, located at 394 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.], renowned lecturer Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson will present a powerful lecture on the Rebbe’s Torah in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, from 8:30 to 10:30 sharp. A second Shiur on the same topic will take place the following Sunday morning at 10:00am.
The Blaze
It’s no secret that automatic cameras snapping the license plate numbers of red-light-runners and stop-sign-coasters generates revenue for cities — especially since they’re constantly on and a uniformed officer is not actively monitoring and getting paid to catch the would-be traffic offenders.
New York City May Introduce Speed Cameras
The Blaze
It’s no secret that automatic cameras snapping the license plate numbers of red-light-runners and stop-sign-coasters generates revenue for cities — especially since they’re constantly on and a uniformed officer is not actively monitoring and getting paid to catch the would-be traffic offenders.
The Rebbe and the Red Houses of Katamon
One of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in Yerushalayim, Katamon fell victim to a rampant epidemic of abortions toward the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Those who resided in the overly crowded red houses on Rechov Bar Yochai were particularly affected, with many left feeling helpless and without any other options.
‘My Encounter’ Heads to South America
After conducting over 70 interviews in their new studio in the heart of Crown Heights, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team hit the road again. This time they decided to leave the confines of North America and headed south to the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere: Brazil.
On Tuesday evening the Bais Shmuel-Chabad Mini Minyan, attended by well over 40 children, celebrated the end of the year with the program’s biggest annual event - the pizza party awards dinner, which celebrated the tremendous effort and achievement of the boys who participated in the program throughout the year.
Beis Shmuel Mini Minyaners Awarded
On Tuesday evening the Bais Shmuel-Chabad Mini Minyan, attended by well over 40 children, celebrated the end of the year with the program’s biggest annual event – the pizza party awards dinner, which celebrated the tremendous effort and achievement of the boys who participated in the program throughout the year.
Baby Girl!
Uri and Chana (nee Zeidman) Cohen (Miami Beach, FL)
Weekly Herald
A new rabbi with Chabad of Snohomish County in Edmonds, Berel Paltiel, has settled into a new life with his wife Goldie and their two children, Risha (left), 4 months, and Chaya, 17 months, at their home in Edmonds, Washington.
Rabbi Berel Paltiel's older brothers had to pose as American tourists to transport banned religious books to Jewish congregations in Soviet Russia. All Berel had to do to transport his religious books to his new congregation was ship them from Brooklyn to Edmonds, Washington. But in every other way, he is continuing his family's legacy.
Family Relocates from NYC to Shepherd Community
Weekly Herald
A new rabbi with Chabad of Snohomish County in Edmonds, Berel Paltiel, has settled into a new life with his wife Goldie and their two children, Risha (left), 4 months, and Chaya, 17 months, at their home in Edmonds, Washington.
Rabbi Berel Paltiel‘s older brothers had to pose as American tourists to transport banned religious books to Jewish congregations in Soviet Russia. All Berel had to do to transport his religious books to his new congregation was ship them from Brooklyn to Edmonds, Washington. But in every other way, he is continuing his family’s legacy.
Courier-Journal
The Rabbi Avrohom Litvin conducts the first of a monthly Friday Night Live Sabbath celebration at the Congregation Anshei Sfard on Dutchmans Lane.
Worshippers prayed, swayed, chanted and closed their eyes in earnest spiritual concentration. In a new series of once-a-month services at Congregation Anshei Sfard, worshippers are putting a modern name on a centuries-old practice.
Kentucky Synagogue Offers Mystics’ Liturgy
Courier-Journal
The Rabbi Avrohom Litvin conducts the first of a monthly Friday Night Live Sabbath celebration at the Congregation Anshei Sfard on Dutchmans Lane.
Worshippers prayed, swayed, chanted and closed their eyes in earnest spiritual concentration. In a new series of once-a-month services at Congregation Anshei Sfard, worshippers are putting a modern name on a centuries-old practice.
“Everybody please rise for the Rebbe's Letter.” Students have probably heard this sentence at graduations all over the world this past week. However at the graduation ceremony for students attending the Nigri International Shluchim Online School, when the students stood there was no scraping of chairs. One student stood in Ukraine. One stood in Denmark. One stood in Australia. Girls from all over the world stood up to hear the Rebbe's letter.
Young Shluchos Graduate from Online School
“Everybody please rise for the Rebbe’s Letter.” Students have probably heard this sentence at graduations all over the world this past week. However at the graduation ceremony for students attending the Nigri International Shluchim Online School, when the students stood there was no scraping of chairs. One student stood in Ukraine. One stood in Denmark. One stood in Australia. Girls from all over the world stood up to hear the Rebbe’s letter.
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