It was well after midnight when Rabbi Sholom B. Halberstam of Chicago ended the marathon 13-hour meeting of principals of “out-of-town” Mesivtas. They had convened as part of the annual “Kinus HaMechanchim” – educators conference, sponsored by the Merkos Chinuch Office.
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The Oprah Winfrey Network presents a Traditional Hasidic Wedding: After knowing each other for just 4 months, Chava (nee Zviklin) and Michoel Shapiro wed in traditional Hasidic fashion, believing in time they will find the true love with each other that is only possible through the commitment of marriage.
Avrom Tov and Esther Chakoff (Dumbo, Brooklyn)
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At least seven Israelis were killed and 20 others injured this morning in a terror attack on Israeli tourists’ bus traveling in Burgas, Bulgaria.
This morning Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, a Lithuanian Gadol widely considered to be the ‘Posek Hador,’ passed away after a weakening of his general health. Rav Elyashiv was 102.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was apprehended by Shomrim last night after he went for a ‘walk’ on President Street and exposed himself to multiple women – the last of which was witnessed by a number of Shomrim volunteers. Police arrested the man after a neighborhood-wide chase.
Last week there was a grand Kinus for the Talmedei Hashluchim of Australia, who were sent from their own Yeshivos after graduating to inspire and assist younger students in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
The prestigious Sinai Scholars Society held its annual Yarchei Kallah shluchim conference in NYC on 12 Tammuz, hosted by Rabbi Dov Yona Korn at the beautiful, newly renovated Chabad House at NYU in downtown Manhattan.
Alexander and Raizel Heppenheimer (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 438 Sterling St.
[between Brooklyn and New York ave.]
The Jewish Press’ Elliot Resnick conducted an Interview with Zalman Alpert, a Lubavitcher who is the Yeshiva University Librarian and an expert on Jewish history. Among other topics, Zalman discusses his family’s Lubavitch background, his own identity as a Lubavitcher, and the reason for Lubavitch’s relative lack of focus on the Holocaust.
Campers of Gan Yisroel Parksville’s older division (B.M.D.) enjoy a trip to the ice skating rink.
Jesse Frankel, 21, recently returned from a trip he didn’t want to end. A participant in a Taglit-Birthright Israel project made possible as part of a partnership between trip provider Mayanot and the Friendship Circle – an international network of Chabad-Lubavitch programs that work with children and young adults with special needs – he spent 10 days touring the Holy Land with his peers.
A young yeshiva boy of 15 by the name of Shneur Chaim Yitzchak Alexander ben Nechama Dina is right now in critical condition with a bacterial infection that is ravaging his body. He needs the heartfelt Tefilos of every child in Klal Yisrael!
On Monday, 26 Tammuz, members of Bais Shmuel-Chabad in Crown Heights gathered at the home of Haysha Deitsch to hear a dynamic history lesson from Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson, while enjoying a BBQ dinner.
Just when young Lubavitch couples are apt to voice the wistful complaint that there are not enough shlichus opportunities left to go around, a new opportunity is presenting itself in the form of “youth shliach.”
A battle over liquor and wine sales has erupted in Crown Heights, pitting established businesses against a newcomer, and forcing the city’s liquor board to decide who is correct about Orthodox Jews’ alcohol shopping habits.
A 7-year-old Brooklyn girl is miraculously alive and well today after plummeting three stories — thanks to a heroic neighbor who raced into action and broke her fall.
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