When 26-year-old Crown Heights native Menachem Eber attended his first Family Day picnic in Lefferts Park 19 years ago, there were almost as many cameras as kosher franks. A generation later, tourists had replaced the television trucks, and despite expected record attendance, the once-unprecedented event barely warranted a nod.
A ribbon was cut and a mezuzah was affixed to a doorway Sunday to officially dedicate the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Coral, Florida.
Anash, shluchim and students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in S. Paulo, Brazil gathered for a Kinus Torah at the central Beit Chabad.
Emotions ran high at a small gathering today in Deans, New Jersey, as a hakamas matzeiva was held for Leiby Kletzky, four weeks to the day before the Borough Park boy’s first yahrtzeit on the eleventh of Tammuz.
Mendy Sharabi (Israel) and Tzofit Avraham (Montreal, Canada)
Hundreds of men, women, and children attended a Farbrengen event in honor of the 5th Yahrtzeit of the Shliach to S. Monica, California, Rabbi Avrohom HaLevi Levitansky , OBM, on Wednesday evening, May 31st .
In this 33rd installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana recalls a few episodes from her son, the Rebbe’s youth.
Dovber and Yocheved (nee Rodman) Shapiro (Las Vegas, NV)
Yitzchok and Bina (nee Serebryanski) Lerman (Crown Heights)
Tzvi Yaacov and Susan (nee Berger) Sherr (Huntington Beach, CA)
It happens often. The phone rings. It is an unfamiliar number. My eyebrows narrow, my forehead wrinkles and my memory goes for a jog trying to decipher any previous connection with the digits on the screen. I press the green button and say in a polite voice, “Hello?”
Shmuli and Tzivia Brown (Liverpool, UK)
Aaron Leib Poster (Miami, FL) and Liora Spitz (Langhorne, PA)
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Vaughan, Ontario Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua received a standing ovation at a recent event sponsored by the Friendship Circle when he announced a $5,000 grant to broaden the scope of a program that pairs teen volunteers with children who have special needs.
The French Interior Ministry says an attack by 10 assailants on 3 people in southeast France was anti-Semitic, and has called for the assailants to be brought to justice. Two of the victims were hospitalized.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Brooklyn South Police District chief Thomas Chan and 71st precinct captain John Lewis were spotted today enjoying lunch in Crown Heights’ Hamilton-Metz (Lefferts) Park, as the NYPD sponsored Harmony Day parade proceeded down Empire Blvd.
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