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After many years of counseling young couples to prepare them for marriage, Rabbi Avrohom Plotkin and Mrs. Goldie Plotkin realized there was a common denominator in all of these couples: they were missing basic training for marriage.
Raphi Steiner (Toronto, Canada) and Mussie Blizinsky (Crown Heights)
Chay and Dina Amar (Golden Beach, FL)
Shimon and Channi (nee Denebeim) Laber (Bal Harbour, FL)
Menachem and Chaya Mushka (nee Gutnick) Korf (Melbourne, Australia)
Yosef and Rivky Abramov (Monsey, NY)
Hundreds of men and women gathered in Beis Rivkah High School in Crown Heights to hear words of inspiration in memory of Rabbi Yitzchok Zirkind, OBM, member of the Crown Heights Beis Din.
Scholars for generations have tried to decipher the seemingly simplistic words of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, the 12th-century commentator known as Rashi whose glosses on the Five Books of Moses have become standard fare for any student of the Torah. But a new English volume attempts to reveal some of the principles behind the commentary, drawing on several talks delivered by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, whose elucidations of Rashi’s writings have been called by modern-day scholars as “revolutionary.”
Breslov Chassidim traveling to Uman for the holiday of Shavuos dance and sing in the airport as they await the boarding call for their flight, which has been delayed. At the 0:45 mark they sing a familiar sounding niggun, but with different words.
While most New Yorkers were busy reveling in a balmy Memorial Day weekend, congregants at Crown Heights’ Chevra Ahavas Yisroel were hitting the books on President Street.
Newser.com picked up on the Reuters story about an Israeli firm that is mining for diamonds near Haifa based on the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s prophetic words, along with a featured photo and caption on the side. Can you figure out what is wrong with the picture?
A Blood Drive will take place on Thursday, May 31 (10 Sivan) from 3:30 PM to 9:00 PM at 1414 President St. [corner of Kingston Ave.]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification. One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, a master educator who has created his own version of an early childhood learning model similar to Montessori but uniquely Jewish, will bring his manipulatives and other e/c materials to the Kinus HaMechanchos next month. He will be making a series of presentations especially geared to early childhood educators.
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