HAMPTON, NJ [CHI] — Chabad of Hunterdon County, NJ, marked their 9th year of servicing the local Jewish community with their annual gala dinner. Under the leadership of Rabbi Eli and Rachel Kornfeld, they have pledge to find a permanent home and increase in growth.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A 4-year-old child was struck by a car on Eastern Parkway’s service lane. The child, along with his family, was in front of Oholei Torah taking pictures ahead of a Simcha that was taking place.
Tonight, Thursday at the Beis Eliezer Yitzchok Shul, located at 394 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.], renowned lecturer Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson will present a powerful lecture on the Rebbe’s Torah in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, from 8:30 to 10:30 sharp. A second Shiur on the same topic will take place the following Sunday morning at 10:00am.
It’s no secret that automatic cameras snapping the license plate numbers of red-light-runners and stop-sign-coasters generates revenue for cities — especially since they’re constantly on and a uniformed officer is not actively monitoring and getting paid to catch the would-be traffic offenders.
One of the oldest and poorest neighborhoods in Yerushalayim, Katamon fell victim to a rampant epidemic of abortions toward the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. Those who resided in the overly crowded red houses on Rechov Bar Yochai were particularly affected, with many left feeling helpless and without any other options.
After conducting over 70 interviews in their new studio in the heart of Crown Heights, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team hit the road again. This time they decided to leave the confines of North America and headed south to the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere: Brazil.
On Tuesday evening the Bais Shmuel-Chabad Mini Minyan, attended by well over 40 children, celebrated the end of the year with the program’s biggest annual event – the pizza party awards dinner, which celebrated the tremendous effort and achievement of the boys who participated in the program throughout the year.
Uri and Chana (nee Zeidman) Cohen (Miami Beach, FL)
Rabbi Berel Paltiel‘s older brothers had to pose as American tourists to transport banned religious books to Jewish congregations in Soviet Russia. All Berel had to do to transport his religious books to his new congregation was ship them from Brooklyn to Edmonds, Washington. But in every other way, he is continuing his family’s legacy.
Worshippers prayed, swayed, chanted and closed their eyes in earnest spiritual concentration. In a new series of once-a-month services at Congregation Anshei Sfard, worshippers are putting a modern name on a centuries-old practice.
“Everybody please rise for the Rebbe’s Letter.” Students have probably heard this sentence at graduations all over the world this past week. However at the graduation ceremony for students attending the Nigri International Shluchim Online School, when the students stood there was no scraping of chairs. One student stood in Ukraine. One stood in Denmark. One stood in Australia. Girls from all over the world stood up to hear the Rebbe’s letter.
A stunning new 72 page photo booklet, Advice for Life, is available in Crown Heights stores in time for Gimmel Tammuz.
Everyone is always asking me how I keep my make-up on all Shabbos and Yom Tov long… Do I re-apply in the morning? No-way-hozay! That’s totally assur! Shabbos and Yom Tov are way more beautiful than a face of make-up, why mess them up just to keep my make-up good?!
Bochurim in Chovevei Torah’s Zal ended the school year today, and marked it with a lunch, along with a Shiur, and capped off with a group photo.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two cars collided in the middle of the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue, with one of the cars ending up of the ‘island,’ miraculously no pedestrians were hurt. Eyewitnesses said one of the cars blew through a steady red light.
At a memorial session at the Israeli Knesset honoring the Lubavitcher Rebbe shortly after his death, Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recalled a conversation he had once had with him in which Rabbi Lau spoke of his active involvement in kiruv rechokim, bringing back to Judaism lost Jews who had strayed far away. “The Rebbe immediately corrected me: ‘We cannot label anyone as being ‘far.” Who are we to determine who is far and who is near? They are all close to Hashem.”
Guma Aguiar, a Brazilian-born billionaire and supporter of many Chabad programs and institutions, is reportedly missing after his empty yacht floated to shore near his Ft. Lauderdale home, with him nowhere to be found.
