The Satmar Rebbe of Kiryas Yoel, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, visited Chabad of Fort Worth, TX and its Mikvah, which is named Divrei Yoel after the Satmar Rebbe’s great-uncle and former Rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, OBM.
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A new three-minute video shows the ins-and-outs of Shabbos candle lighting. Produced by Chabad.org’s video site Jewish.TV, the newest installation of the DIY (Do-it-Yourself) series teaches beginners how to light Shabbos candles.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Shliach to the nation’s capital, is quite used to meeting with government diplomats and foreign dignitaries. Today was no different, as a special visitor from Brooklyn visited his Chabad House in Washington, D.C.
Shmuly and Mushky Volovik (Crown Heights)
Pictures from the L’chaim of Yossi Stern (London, UK) and Chaya Hershkop (Crown Heights), which took place in the Shul of 935 Eastern Parkway.
This heartwarming story about a Chabad Shlucha doing outreach on Campus was printed in the latest edition of the Mishpacha Magazine:
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Pinchas Cunin of Crown Heights at the age of 72.
Meet another member of South Florida’s many-sided faith community. This week we’re talking with Rabbi Meir Kessler, co-director with wife Fruma of the Jewish Recovery Center, Boca Raton.
Hannah Dimbert and Hannah Otis, both recent graduates of Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, tied for first place in the national Yeshiva University Girls’ High School Bekiut competition. The contest, in its fifth year, tests the girl’s knowledge and analysis of Talmud on an academic level.
About an hour ago a black Mercedes, driven by an African-American male, was speeding at almost 100 MPH down Carroll St. toward New York Ave., as if it were the NASCAR race track. Sure enough, the vehicle lost control and crashed into a Lincoln ‘livery cab’ driven by a Hispanic male, which went crashing into the yard of an adjacent home.
Maybe it’s the urban dwelling of the future: studio apartments measuring no more than 300 square feet (About 17 feet from wall to wall).
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Zalman Deren spends his days studying the Torah in a small synagogue near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. He’s young and able-bodied, with a wife and three children to feed, but has no job because that would distract him from his vocation.
At around 3:00pm today, two police cars from the 71st Precinct were speeding up Rogers Ave. with their lights flashing and sirens on, presumably responding to an emergency call, when they drove through a red light at the intersection of Lefferts Ave.
Chabad of Tribeca/Soho, directed by Rabbi Zalman and Chani Paris, is taking over the space at 54 Reade (at Broadway) that’s currently home to the Quad Manhattan.
The Bochurim and Hanhala of the Lubavitch Mesivta in Golders Green, London, pose for a group photo.
A CrownHeights.info reader observed a collector of recyclable bottles having a rough day. It brings to mind the timeless Talmudic Adage “if you grab too much you grab nothing.”
A Blood Drive will take place today, July 10 (20 Tammuz) from 3:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Ahavas Chesed, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and St. Johns Pl.]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification. One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
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