“Install a charity box at your bank, and place my dollar inside it. May G-d Almighty bless you to have many other banks imitate your bank’s charity box and observance of Shabbos.”
Golani Brigade Staff-Sergeant Netanel Moshiashvili, 21, was killed along the Gaza border by Islamic Jihad gunfire on Friday morning, 11 Sivan 5772. The shooting occurred near the Kissufim area.
Yossi and Blumie (nee Chodorow) Herbst (Melbourne, Australia)
The Solihull Hebrew Congregation’s Thursday Club, run by Rabbi Yehuda and Dinie Pink, has been awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for groups of volunteers who work in their local communities for the benefit of others.
It took firefighters just under two hours this morning to declare a high-altitude fire at One World Trade Center as under control.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — It was truly a bizarre scene in 770 this past Shabbos, when tens of people witnessed R. Yosef Braun literally throwing a tantrum – shouting at the Gabai Reb Yosef Losh that he will ‘punish’ him.
21 years ago in the same kvius as this year, the Rebbe walked into downstairs 770 late Shabbos afternoon and started a surprise Farbrengen which was followed by Kos Shel Bracha (on a regular Motzoei Shabbos), Rabbi Yossi Lew Shliach in Peachtree City, Atlanta wrote up what happened.
Organizers at the Ohel are getting organized ahead of Gimmel Tammuz, which falls out this year on Shabbos Parashas Korah. Both sleeping and eating arrangements at the Ohel will see major changes and those wishing to spend shabbos will need to RSVP.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a collection of Photos from Yud Shvat 5724 and Yud Tes Kislav 5723.
Ten years ago a Shiur in the Rebbes Sichos began when a Chavursa would sit down and learn between Mincha and Maariv before Seder Niggunim. Today, it has evolved from just two individuals to a sizeable crowd and to mark this achievement there will be a special Farbrengen that will take place after Mincha.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Shochet will lead a discussion on the topic, Hemshech Ayin Beis and 100 years since.
Duddy and Bella (nee Pinsion) Alroy
1466 President St. [between Albany and Kingston Ave.]
Shua and Stery (nee Naparstek) Lustig
379 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Velvel And Sara Farkash
Chesed Center, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and S. Johns Pl.]
Benny and Shayna (nee Shaffer) Schmidt
711 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Shmuly and Nechama Dina (nee Katz) Raskin
1338 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Shneur and Hindy Gurevitz
424 Brockway Ave. Morgantown, WV
Leibel and Nechama Sheindel (nee Tifenbrun) Tzeitlin (Crown Heights)
Shimon and Channi (nee Denebeim) Laber (Bal Harbour, FL)
Menachem and Faigy (nee Schapiro) Schechter (Chicago, IL)
Ari and Batya Kievman (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Mendel And Tzippy (nee schlanger) Kastel (Sydney, Australia)
Srulik Hartman (Crown Heights) and Mushka Dahan (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim Sunday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Mayor Bloomberg is proposing a sweeping ban on all sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces sold in restaurants, movie theaters, food carts and ballpark concession stands, NBC 4 New York has confirmed.
The seventh and eighth grade students of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street went on a fun trip today, as a reward for good attendance at minyan every morning.
The Galperin and Rosenberg families celebrated a teary and emotional homecoming for Leizer Galperin, who suffered serious burn wounds after a home fire in Nachlas Har Chabad. After two long years of difficult – but Boruch Hashem successful – medical treatments in Cincinnati, Ohio, Leizer and family returned home to Eretz Yisroel.
Alan Veingrad, former football star turned Lubavitcher Chossid, is interviews by ESPN about a lawsuit he is filling against the NFL over concussions suffered by its players.
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