Baby Girl!
Mendel and Nechama Dina Munitz (Buffalo, NY)
Rock Star Rabbi Has Something to Say, Sing
The event had the trappings of a happening gig: huge speakers, a well-stocked bar, a loud crowd getting louder.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shemtov, fondly referred to by Anash as Reb Mendel, was born in Poltova on the 28th of Sivan in 1933 to Horav Hachossid Reb Benzion and his wife Golda. For most of Mendel’s childhood, his father was exiled to Siberia for the self-sacrifice of opening chadorim and spreading Yiddishkeit to children in Russia.
Our Heroes: R. Menachem Mendel Shemtov (1933-2006)
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shemtov, fondly referred to by Anash as Reb Mendel, was born in Poltova on the 28th of Sivan in 1933 to Horav Hachossid Reb Benzion and his wife Golda. For most of Mendel’s childhood, his father was exiled to Siberia for the self-sacrifice of opening chadorim and spreading Yiddishkeit to children in Russia.
Video: Helping Mommy Clean for Pesach
Another humorous Chabad.org video clip asks if you are truly ready for Pesach.
Sign Language Video Producer Has New Home
Since moving from California to New York to continue his yeshiva studies, Jewish Deaf Multimedia founder Yehoshua Soudakoff has shifted production to a new location in Crown Heights. Here he is pictured recording his latest Sign Language video in front of a green screen at his studio in the Chabad.org offices at 770 Eastern Parkway.
Tonight, the 9th of Nissan, is the 60th yahrtzeit of the famous Chassidic heroine Mume Sara Katsenelenbogen. This video was presented at the third birthday celebration of her great-granddaughter and namesake, Sara Katsenelenbogen, daughter of Rabbi Nochum and Chanie Katsenelenbogen of Owings Mills, MD. The video gives a brief history of her life of Mesirus Nefesh, acted out by the birthday girl and her siblings.
Video: The Life of Mume Sara
Tonight, the 9th of Nissan, is the 60th yahrtzeit of the famous Chassidic heroine Mume Sara Katsenelenbogen. This video was presented at the third birthday celebration of her great-granddaughter and namesake, Sara Katsenelenbogen, daughter of Rabbi Nochum and Chanie Katsenelenbogen of Owings Mills, MD. The video gives a brief history of her life of Mesirus Nefesh, acted out by the birthday girl and her siblings.
Baby Boy!
Yakov and Chana Devorah (nee Bogomilsky) Feldman
“In the United States it's a healthy sign when there's a problem with the budget. When the budget is too smooth, it means there are no activities... May G-d Almighty bless you to see the situation differently, with joy, and that will bring much more success also.”
Weekly Living Torah: Budgets Shouldn’t Be Smooth
“In the United States it’s a healthy sign when there’s a problem with the budget. When the budget is too smooth, it means there are no activities… May G-d Almighty bless you to see the situation differently, with joy, and that will bring much more success also.”
New Grocery Store Brings Ease to Pesach Shopping
With one week until Pesach, a local store-owner has unveiled a beautiful new shopping experience for Crown Heights families. The Pesach Store, a 3,000 square-foot space on Albany Avenue, brings clean and wide aisles, bright lighting and impressive variety to a traditionally cramped shopping experience.
Baby Boy!
Mendel and Sara Gottlieb (Los Angeles, CA)
Beis Rivkah Students Express Support for Principal
About 200 Beis Rivkah High School students signed on to a petition thanking their principal Mrs. Shaina Tiechtel, and showing support for the school’s enforcement of the ban on Facebook after much of the national media picked up on the story we published here a week ago.
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Shmuly and Chanie (nee Gammal) Zaklikofsky
1546 Union St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Mendy and Devorah Leah (nee Perlow) Bronstein
820 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Yosef and Rivka Andrusier
Beis Binyomin, 680 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Chaim and Rochel Kaminker
680 Lefferts Ave. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Yoni and Mushka (nee Afrah) Namdar
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present these two unique photos of the Rebbe leaving his room in the mid ’70s.
L’chaim: Edelman – Schapiro
Pictures from the L’chaim of Mendy Edelman (Florida) and Chayale Schapiro (Crown Heights), which took place on Wednesday, March 28 at Lubavitcher Yeshiva.
