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Homicide detectives are investigating the mysterious death of an Orthodox Jewish man who begged for money outside synagogues, even though his massive collection of vintage TV photos was said to be worth millions of dollars.
Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore’s Mishmor – the weekly Learning program with Bochrim for boys ages 8 and up – celebrated a Year End Gala Dinner honoring the students and staff for their commitment throughout the year of 5772.
The exhibit of photos taken by 770 photographer Yossi Melamed, located on the corner of Albany Ave. and Union St., will be open for the last day today (Sunday, 18 Tammuz), after remaining open for an extra week due to popular demand.
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Rabbi Pinny Gniwisch has seen the abject poverty and violence of Brazil’s cities first hand. As a Chabad rabbi, he has travelled to Rio de Janeiro where millions live in shantytowns that teem with homeless children, exploited and sometimes callously murdered.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Zilbershrom, OBM, of Jerusalem, at the age of 89.
Eilan Yaacov Barak (Toronto, Canada) and Esther Malkah Krayzman (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Monday at 1349 President St.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Charlie Buttons reads ‘Tov Shebaluchos,’ a pamphlet on 17 Tammuz which was written by Rabbi Yisroel Rubin of Albany, NY in honor of his son Avraham Abba‘s engagement to Raizel Glick, and distributed at their L’chaim in Empire Shteibel Thursday night.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yaacov Sebbag will lead a discussion on the topic: Was Christoper Columbus Jewish? And other Fascinating facts about the Spanish inquisition.
Yisroel and Rishi (nee Kaminetzky) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 700 Lefferts Ave.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
For the past eight years, Robert Epstein, the Harvard-educated Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, has studied arranged marriages, interviewing more than 70 people from a variety of backgrounds, including some Orthodox Jewish couples. His findings are in sharp distinction with the current air of suspicion that surrounds the practice of arranged marriage in many democratized societies.
The Rebbe recites the Haftarah during Mincha of the Fast of Tammuz, which was pushed off to Sunday, 18 Tammuz, 5748 (July 3, 1988).
At around noon today a white Lexus and red Nissan collided as they were heading down Brooklyn Ave. toward the intersection of Empire Blvd. The red Nissan lost control and skid onto the sidewalk in front of the ‘Little feet’ children’s Shoe store, where it struck a 2-year-old Jewish girl.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In the struggle over control of the Crown Heights Vaad HaKashrus, the New York State Supreme Court threw R. Yosef Braun’s election into limbo while refusing to enforce the Psak from the Zablo Beis Din, saying that “all controversies over control… are remanded to the Rosenberg Beis Din.”
Rabbi Yehoshua and Yehudis Fuchs, along with their five children, will be moving on Shlichus to Budapest Hungary, where they will join the growing contingency of Shluchim to spread Torah and Judaism in the eastern European city.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe, standing on his platform at the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1976.
Recently, Year 12 of Lubavitch Senior Girl’s School (LSGS) London welcomed the students of Lauder Chabad Campus (LCC) in Vienna, on the first day of their London tour. During the breakfast, the girls introduced themselves, chatted and quickly realised that although they speak a different language, they had much in common. Two girls discovered that they are second cousins and met for the very first time!
Oholei Torah will be sending out 182 Bochurim to 44 Communities around the Globe for a year of Shlichus. Rabbi Elchonon Lesches, Dean of the Beis Medrash Oholei Torah, noted that this is the largest Shlichus list Oholei Torah has ever presented.
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