This past Wednesday, Bochurim of the Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne celebrated Lag B’Omer at the Chabad House of Bentleigh, which is directed by Rabbi Mendel Raskin. The Bochurim were served a barbecue dinner, which was followed by dancing and a Chassidishe Kumzits around the bonfire.
When the Chinuch Yaldei Hashluchim department of the Shluchim Office began discussing the Online Parade, they never imagined how real it would be.
Chabad Youth Network of Florida organized a phenomenal unity event. The event was held at Dezer Car Museum in North Miami, where ten schools and over 1500 students from south Florida joined together in unity.
Mendel and Dini (nee Sirota) Sharfstein (Crown Heights)
Shmulik and Tzini (nee Hershkop) Brand (Crown Heights)
It may be more than a month away, but the Cambria Heights community has already begun preparing for the arrival of some 20,000 Lubavitch pilgrims who will come to visit the grave of the sect’s beloved leader on June 23.
With sadness we inform you of the passing, on Shabbos, of Rabbi Akiva Greenberg of Crown Heights. Rabbi Greenberg was a professor of Speech and sociology in Touro College for several decades, and was much beloved by his many students. He merited personal attention from the Rebbe and other Gedolei Yisrael of the previous generation.
Moishe and Rivka Yehudis (nee Kupfer) Cheruff (Crown Heights)
Avi and Chanie (nee Dinerman) Teleki (Melbourne, Australia)
Most parents know the pains of lack of sleep when it comes to dealing with newborns and children with sleep problems. In this video by the My Fox NY news channel, baby sleep counselors help Crown Heights mother Rivky Jenkelowitz keep her one-year-old Simcha sleeping through the night.
Hashem seemed to have stopped the rain just in time for the Cheder at the Ohel Lag Ba’omer Parade on Thursday morning.
Eli Leib Rubin (Edgeware, UK) and Miri Kudan (Hollywood, FL)
L’chaim will be Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
A group of public school children gathered on East New York and Albany Ave. in Crown Heights to protest mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s budget, which includes funding cuts to the after school program. A Crownheights.info reporter was at the scene.
Gender issues and the woman’s role in Jewish culture is a hot topic in Israel’s media, but for one group of women on a dream ten-day trip to NYC hosted by Chabad Israel Center of the Upper East Side and accompanied by Chabad Terror Victims Project, it’s a non-issue.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic, the Migadef: Who was he? What did he do? What can we learn from the story?
Mendy and Miriam (nee Andrusier) Rosler
408 Sterling St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Michy and Shainy Marosov
467 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Mendel and Friady Sufrin
1339 Union St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Tzali and Rochel Laufer
1468 Union St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yaakov and Shaindel (nee Keselman) Siev
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