TOULOUSE, France [CHI] — Just as the news of the horrifying murder in France is beginning to set in around the world, new eyewitness accounts offer even more chilling insight into the senseless butchery which took place at the Jewish school Ozar Hatorah in France.
TOULOUSE, France — A father, his two children and another child are dead following a terrifying shooting in front of the Jewish high school in Toulouse, France this morning. The victims are Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, his 3-year-old and 6-year-old sons Gabriel and Arieh and 8-year-old Miriam Monsonego, the children attended the Chabad Gan for children.
After meeting more than seven years in living rooms, or in rented space at schools and office buildings, Chabad Jewish Center of Bradenton and Lakewood Ranch finally has a home of its own.
The annual Melave Malka of the Maple Street Shul took place Motzei Shabbos Vayakhel-Pekudei, March 17. The hall was filled to capacity with a crowd who came to enjoy an uplifting evening benefiting the Shul. The crowd included many guests from the Crown Heights Community as well as from Boro Park, Williamsburg and Flatbush.
Chesky Akerman (Crown Heights) and Chaikee Leeds (Pittsburgh, PA)
With the vision in mind, Rabbi Shalom and Sara Paltiel began to create a new Disney-like, Israel-themed, 1,800 square foot playground and cultural recreation center at Chabad of Port Washington in Long Island, NY. The new installment includes a recreational area with access to instruments, a puppet theater, a faux-marketplace, a costume area, a replica of ancient ruins, a live streaming feed of a bustling center in Israel, a camel, and a tree.
Crown Heights [CHI] — At around 6:00 PM today, an employee at Kingston Bake Shop spotted two African-American teenagers breaking into a Jewish-owned vehicle on Crown St. between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave. When they realized they were seen, the teens fled down Kingston Avenue toward Montgomery Street.
Eli (ben R’ Ari) Chitrik (Crown Heights) and Malky (bas R’ Yehoshua) Chein (Crown Heights)
On Sunday, the 17th of Adar/March 11, 2012, nearly 200 friends and supporters of Cheder Menachem Elementary Boys’ School in Los Angeles gathered at the elegant Neman Hall to celebrate the 10th Annual Trustees Banquet.
Today, 24 Adar, is the Yahrtzeit of Reb Binyomin Levin OBM, who passed away at the early age of 44. A recent discovery on an 8mm film of a recording of a choir in Jaffa, Israel, sheds light on an innovative program initiated by the Rebbe and carried out by Reb Binyomin.
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A contingent of Lubavitcher Rabbonim paid a shiva call to the family of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe who was nifter last week. Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yaroslavsky, Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Askenazi, Rabbi Yochanan Gurarie, Rabbi Y. Y. Aharonov, Rabbi Nochum Goldshmid and Rabbi Ariel Lemberg were menachem avel the sons of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, zt”l. Also present were: the Vizhnitzer’s son-in-law Rabbi Menachem Ernster, the Vizhnitzer Rosh Yeshiva; and Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Rokeach of Belz, a grandson of the Vizhnitzer Rebbe.
Morocco’s King, Mohammed VI, granted knighthood to Rabbi Raphael Benchimol, a Chabad Chossid and spiritual leader of the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation.
This past Thursday, several Shluchim, Chabad supporters and dignitaries attended the Bris of the newborn son of Merkos 302 director Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky in the Jewish Children’s Museum. The baby was given the name Shneur.
Joseph Zakon started his winery in 1981 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY. This year he did a class project for a group of 8th graders, including his son, how to use the technique called Carbonic Maceration (whole grape berry fermentation) and make wine from scratch.
While Israel and her supporters throughout the world wonder whether or not us president Barack Obama intends to support Israel against Iran, Rabbi Dovid Smith, currently running as an independent for congress in NJ’s newly redrawn district 9, has no doubt the answer is no.
Shneur Zalman Gottlieb (Crown Heights) and Chaya Wilansky (Montreal, Canada)
FREE, 1383 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Falie Levin (Montreal, Canada) and Chanie (bas R’ Zev) Feldman (Crown Heights)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
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