Baby Girl!
Mendel and Dini (nee Sirota) Sharfstein (Crown Heights)
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Baby Girl!
Shmulik and Tzini (nee Hershkop) Brand (Crown Heights)
Cambria Heights Prepares for Ohel Visitors
It may be more than a month away, but the Cambria Heights community has already begun preparing for the arrival of some 20,000 Lubavitch pilgrims who will come to visit the grave of the sect’s beloved leader on June 23.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: Rabbi Akiva Greenberg, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing, on Shabbos, of Rabbi Akiva Greenberg of Crown Heights. Rabbi Greenberg was a professor of Speech and sociology in Touro College for several decades, and was much beloved by his many students. He merited personal attention from the Rebbe and other Gedolei Yisrael of the previous generation.
Baby Girl!
Moishe and Rivka Yehudis (nee Kupfer) Cheruff (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Avi and Chanie (nee Dinerman) Teleki (Melbourne, Australia)
Video: Relief for Sleepless Crown Heights Mom
Most parents know the pains of lack of sleep when it comes to dealing with newborns and children with sleep problems. In this video by the My Fox NY news channel, baby sleep counselors help Crown Heights mother Rivky Jenkelowitz keep her one-year-old Simcha sleeping through the night.
Photos: Cheder at the Ohel Parades on Lag Ba’omer
Hashem seemed to have stopped the rain just in time for the Cheder at the Ohel Lag Ba’omer Parade on Thursday morning.
New Engagement!
Eli Leib Rubin (Edgeware, UK) and Miri Kudan (Hollywood, FL)
L’chaim will be Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
A group of public school children gathered on East New York and Albany Ave. in Crown Heights to protest mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget, which includes funding cuts to the after school program. A Crownheights.info reporter was at the scene.
Video: Public School Children Protest Budget Cuts
A group of public school children gathered on East New York and Albany Ave. in Crown Heights to protest mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s budget, which includes funding cuts to the after school program. A Crownheights.info reporter was at the scene.
Wounded Female IDF Soldiers Honored with VIP Trip
Gender issues and the woman’s role in Jewish culture is a hot topic in Israel’s media, but for one group of women on a dream ten-day trip to NYC hosted by Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side and accompanied by Chabad Terror Victims Project, it’s a non-issue.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic, the Migadef: Who was he? What did he do? What can we learn from the story?
Shabbos at the Besht: The Blasphemer
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic, the Migadef: Who was he? What did he do? What can we learn from the story?
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Mendy and Miriam (nee Andrusier) Rosler
408 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Michy and Shainy Marosov
467 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Mendel and Friady Sufrin
1339 Union St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Tzali and Rochel Laufer
1468 Union St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yaakov and Shaindel (nee Keselman) Siev
Jews Parade with Pride Down Kharkov’s Streets
Despite the fact that Lag Ba’omer fell out on a workday, hundreds of Kharkov Jews were able to proudly parade down the busy main streets of Kharkov – Pushkinskaya and Sumskaya St.
Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic - coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.
French Students Get Boost of Jewish Life in UK
Chabad on Campus UK hosted recently a Shabbaton in Oxford for a group of thirty French Jewish students visiting from top engineering schools in Paris, including Ecole Central, Pharmacy Chatenay Malabry, HEC and Polytheqnic – coming less than two months after the brutal killings that shook the Jewish community in Tolouse and worldwide.
Photos: Lag Ba’omer on the River Thames
Cheering, dancing, laughing… as the Golden Flame cruised along the River Thames, the girls of Lubavitch Senior School in London were entertained and amused by a fantastic series of games and challenges, and of course extremely lively dancing!
