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A young man from Moscow’s Georgian Jewish community was murdered on Friday, the innocent victim of a clash between two gangs. The victim has been identified as Yaakov ben Mordechai Manasharshivili, 26.
Ron David Hershcopf (Windsor, CT) and Minna Chava Caplan (Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave] at 8:30 PM
Moshe Aber (Sydney, Australia) and Mushka Wircberg (Crown Heights)
1485 President St. [corner Albany Ave.]
80 students of Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles spent an uplifting and inspiring ‘Shabbos Achdus’ this week at the North County Chabad Center in Yorba Linda, CA. The Shabbos was filled with farbrengens by Rabbi Mendel Shapiro, the yeshiva’s mashpia, and Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, the local Shliach.
In an address to a group of teenage students, noted author, lecturer and educator Rabbi Manis Friedman dismissed the notion of banning the internet and rejected the idea that the Jewish community is facing an unprecedented crisis.
Alon and Sarah (nee Horowitz) Asefovitz (Los Angeles, CA)
The NYPD Command Post vehicle, stationed on Albany Ave. near Lubavitcher Yeshiva, found itself in need of an electrical boost to get its engine started. Perhaps they should have called Shomrim..
Students, Teachers and administrators of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street gathered outside for the first school-wide group photo since 1991.
Yossi Clapman (Brooklyn, NY) and Yaffi Silkes (Crown Heights)
What began as a dream ended up a reality: A school wide Tanya Baal Peh contest was launched at the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami on Yud Tes Kislev. It culminated on Yud Shvat with thousands of lines being learned and a tremendous Nachas Ruach to the Rebbe.
Chabad of Tucson, Arizona has appointed Rabbi Ephraim Zimmerman to be the first full-time rabbi serving the spiritual, religious and educational needs of Oro Valley Jews.
Yitzchak and Miriam Schultz
422 Troy Avenue [between Montgomery St. and Empire Blvd.] Apt. 1
Naftali and Chaya (nee Hotzberg) Berkowitz
683 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yossi and Shira (nee Reisner) Sultan
350 Lefferts Ave. [between New York and Nostrand Ave.] Apt. 3G
Shimon and Chanie (nee Avtzon) Raskin
450 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
After many years of trials and tribulations, the board of directors of Machane Menachem is happy to announce the re-opening of the summer camp, which was founded in 1995, for boys between the ages of 13-14.
Rabbi Yekusiel Farkash is a prominent halachic authority living in Jerusalem, Israel. He tells an amazing story of how the Rebbe’s advice saved his doctor-friend’s wife from fatal illness, through a change of diet.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yehudah Clapman will lead a discussion on the topic, Behind the Scenes: Writing a Sefer Torah.
United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer‘s home was burglarized, and a pair of silver candlesticks was stolen. Since he is Jewish, we will go ahead and assume that the candlesticks were Shabbos candles.
This week, Alumnae from the Malchus Women’s Learning Center in Jerusalem gathered together in a Crown Heights home for a beautiful and inspirational reunion and farbrengen.
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado in Ft. Collins, received the Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award at Colorado State University.
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