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JTA Accuses Chabad of Facilitating ‘Kidnapping’

Marianne Grin is interviewed by an Italian media outlet in St. Petersburg, Russia.

About a year ago Marianne Grin, a Jewish woman from Florence, Italy, fled to Russia with her three children to escape a ruling by an Italian court giving full custody of the children to her estranged non-Jewish husband. The husband had successfully portrayed her as ‘mentally unstable’ to the Italian judge, citing the fact that she enrolled her children in a Gan Israel summer camp run by Chabad – which he argued was a ‘radical religious cult.’

New Engagement!

Zalmy Danzinger (Toronto, Canada) and Brochy Levilev (Crown Heights)

L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.] at 7:00pm

4 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Yankie and Mindy Rosenblum
418 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]

Ephraim and Henya (nee Mockin) Okunov
656 Crown St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]

Shuky and Mimi (nee Denburg) Minsky
633 East New York Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Apt. 2LF

Eli and Rivky (nee Rosenfeld) Hurwitz

Our Heroes: Reb Chaim Zvi Hirsch Konikov

by Esther Caplan – N’shei Chabad Newsletter

Reb Chaim Zvi Hirsch Konikov was born in 1897 is a small town in Russia * He was an adherent follower of the Frierdiker Rebbe, and witnesses many miracles while living in Czarist and communist Russia which saved his life on many occasions * Arriving in New York with his family in 1929, he was one of the founding members of the Chabad community in the U.S. * He passed away on 24 Tammuz, 1956.