Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) and New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos made history today when they unveiled an extensive security initiative designed to protect residents of Borough Park and Midwood.
Jewish students at the University of North Texas now have a home away from home with the opening of a new campus Chabad House run by Rabbi Levi and Leah Dubrawsky, who moved up the I-35 corridor to Denton from the Dallas area just two months ago. Drawn by UNT’s growing Jewish student population, the couple is part of an ever-expanding network of hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries concentrating on campus communities.
Residents of Crown Heights awoke this morning to find a package containing booklets and DVDs on their doorsteps. The envelope says it is sent by the “Israel Restoration Ministries,” but a quick glance inside affirms the source of the material: Missionaries targeting new converts to Christianity. Please be advised of the content before bringing it into your home.
It has become a phenomenon that many woman and girls eagerly await each year: the Keren Simchas Choson Ve’kallah’s Ice Cream Social. This year’s event is Game Night, Ice Cream Social & Mini Auction; it will take place this Tuesday, May 22nd / Rosh Chodesh Sivan, 6:30 PM at Beis Rivkah, 470 Lefferts Ave. [corner Brooklyn Ave.]
Yosef and Sara (nee Abrahamson) Seigel (Crown Heights)
Michael and Zelda (nee Gutnick) Lerner (Crown Heights)
Drivers and their passengers better make sure they’re buckled up. State police will be running a two-week crackdown on seatbelts starting Monday and running through June 3.
Mordechai and Joelle (nee Cohn) Wilshinsky (Crown Heights)
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I was sipping tea with a South Korean friend of my father’s when he asked: “Do you go to church?” It’s a much more common getting-to-know-you question in Korea than in the north-eastern United States, so I replied: “I actually don’t go to church, I’m Jewish.” When the oohs and ahs from members of the family, who were thrilled to learn I was part of the tribe, had subsided, my father’s friend proclaimed: “I forgot your dad is Jewish! Koreans are the Jews of Asia!”
In spite of discrepancies over the invitation of the Lubavitch community to the Citi Field internet gathering, the Rabbonim of the Crown Heights Beis Din attended and were assigned seats of honor at the dais. Seen in these photographs from Yeshiva World News are Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba (partially obstructed) and Rabbi Shlomo Segal.
Devoting hours of intense study every day to his regular course load, a 19-year-old boy from Toronto has accomplished in the astonishing time of three years what most adults spend their whole lives attempting. But ask Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva student Shaya Zirkind what secret allowed him to learn the entire Talmud and he’s surprisingly down to earth in his answer: go to bed early, wake up refreshed, and take each day at a time.
In a report which aired tonight on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper makes the case that in some cemeteries, graves were desecrated so more plots could be sold, and that the industry in general is lacking oversight. The program shows footage from inside a lake near a Jewish cemetery in Florida, where tombstones were allegedly thrown, when something interesting comes on the screen. It appears at the 8:24 and 8:50 mark; can you figure out what it is?
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Watch a live feed of the gathering of 40,000 Orthodox Jews in the Citi Field stadium, who are there to address the dangers to the Jewish community posed by the internet.
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“Diamond Joe” Gutnick has plenty on his agenda this year. His Merlin diamond deposit in the Northern Territory, held by ASX-listed North Australian Diamonds, is coming close to production. He and his sister are merging their precious gem assets. And he is preparing for the listing of Paradise Phosphate on the ASX, a project near Mount Isa in north-west Queensland.
Even before Rabbonim in the United States decided to hold the kinus in Citi Field tonight, Chabad Rabbonim and mashpi’im in Israel decided to hold a kinus to address the dangers posed by the internet, which will take place this week in the 770 building in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch of Morristown hosted a ‘Shabbos Achdus’ for over 200 bochurim this week.
Eli Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Tova Wilmowsky (Crown Heights)
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