You usually don’t think of organ donation as something to celebrate. Don’t tell that to the people of Renewal. Last Thursday over 300 people got together for a lavish reception at the Renaissance Ballroom in Brooklyn to honor their kidney donors, an elite group of selfless individuals who have given the gift of life to others, often to complete strangers.
A Talmud that took Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 45 years to translate from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic into modern Hebrew is being published in English.
After the producers of a new movie dramatizing the 1986 Chernobyl disaster received criticism that they are exploiting the 400,000 victims of the nuclear meltdown, Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl expressed support for the film, because it portrays the true extent of the disaster – something which the world has remained mostly ignorant of due to Soviet censorship.
In the Second Book of Samuel, after the deaths of Saul andJonathan, King David cries out, “They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions”—“מִנְּשָׁרִים קַלּוּ,מֵאֲרָיוֹת גָּבֵרוּ”. Rabbi Yeshaya Schtroks, beloved father, husband, community builder, remarkable teacher, was swift like the eagle, strong like the lion, and now he has passed away at the young age of 55.
As the school year is quickly coming to an end, YNS is now accepting registration for the upcoming school year for both the Mesivta and new Zal program.
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A Jewish woman was walking on Kingston Ave. and Union St. at around noon today, when an African-American teenager – who was probably skipping school – grabbed her phone and ran away.
Rachel Efrat Atias, the 7-year-old girl who survived a horrific accident in Tiveria during the night, told rescue workers “I tried to wake abba and ima but they would not get up”.
A man and a 12-year-old boy were shot inside a sneaker store on Utica Ave. and Union St. in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn last night.
The lucky winner of the first weekly JEM Raffle is none other than Enrique Montes from Austin, Texas! Enrique has dedicated his donation in honor of his dear Chabad Shluchim, Rabbi and Rebbitzen Levertov. He will receive an exclusive, beautiful 32” framed picture of the Rebbe.
In this 31st installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how a man, acting at the behest of the elder non-Hasidic rov of Yekatrinoslav, disguised himself as a stranger in town in order to falsely testify against Reb Levik’s dismissal of an incompetent shochet.
Housed in a dramatic stand-alone building on the corner of Coney Island Ave. and Ave. M, Wolf & Lamb is turning the Brooklyn neighborhood into a true dining destination. Part of the reason owner Zalman Wuensch, a Crown Heights resident, opened up in the area is its lack of great dinner spots.
Sunday night, May 20th, was the Gala Bat Mitzvah Celebration and Dinner, marking the Bat Mitzvah of fourteen girls, members of the South Broward Bat Mitzvah Club.
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All of Anash are invited to participate in the Shloshim for Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Schtroks, OBM, which will take place on Tuesday at Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ, at 8:00 PM.
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Bnos Chomesh students awoke on Lag Ba’omer to a sunny and warm day, eagerly anticipating their outing to Central Park.
As every year, from Yud Shevat through Yud Alef Nissan, students of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles prepared a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe – their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program. Together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 158,864 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and ‘Yediyos Kloliyos.’
At daybreak last Thursday, 1,300 people were moved at the annual Community Prayer Breakfast at Harborside Event Center.
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