New Engagement!
Eli Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Tova Wilmowsky (Crown Heights)
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Becoming Friends Through the Friendship Circle
When Jenna Kress, 16, first met Danielle Orleans, 9, she had to stay on the other side of the room for a visit that lasted about 15 minutes. Fast forward three years later, Jenna continues to visit Danielle, who is high functioning on the Autism spectrum, every single Sunday, staying for hours to read, write, cook and bake with the little girl who has allowed her to not only come close in physical proximity, but in her heart, as well.
Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.
Crown Heights Area Leads City in Total Murders
Brooklyn remains the city’s bloodiest borough — accounting for about 38% of last year’s murders, NYPD statistics released Friday show. Of the 515 homicides last year, about 196 occurred in Brooklyn, mostly in a cluster of neighborhoods that include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and East New York.
Photo: Chosid Visits Western Wall After Liberation
On today’s date, 28 Iyar, in 1967, Israeli forces liberated Har Habyis in the Miraculous Six-Day War. Masses of Jews thronged to the Western wall, which had been off limits for 19 years. Seen in this photograph is Rabbi Zushe Dvortz, of Kfar Chabad, awaiting his turn to enter the narrow passage that still separated the wall from an adjacent row of houses.
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Counselor at Moscow Chabad House Murdered
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.
2 Sunday Night L’chaims!
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.
Yeshiva Spends Uplifting Shabbos at Chabad House
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.
R’ Manis Friedman: Don’t Be Intimidated by Internet
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.
Baby Girl!
Alon and Sarah (nee Horowitz) Asefovitz (Los Angeles, CA)
Picture of the Day: Command Post Needs a Boost
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..
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Poses for Portrait
Students, Teachers and administrators of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street gathered outside for the first school-wide group photo since 1991.
New Engagement!
Yossi Clapman (Brooklyn, NY) and Yaffi Silkes (Crown Heights)
2nd Graders Make Morah’s Dream Come True
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.
Oro Valley to Get Chabad Rabbi and Rebbetzin
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.
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
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.]
Machane Menachem Is Back at Last!
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.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Kosher Therapy
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.
