NEW JERSEY — Around 45 people listened to the inspiring story of a Holocaust survivor, who, as a teenager, participated in a successful mass escape from the Nazi death camp Sobibór. The Chabad Jewish Center–Upper Passaic County invited Philip Bialowitz to tell his story of survival at the Wanaque Golden Age Club.
I’ve known my good friend and former neighbor on the Lower East Side of New York Baruch Herzfeld for many years. I’ve learned to respect his perception of what’s in and what’s out, and so this morning when I went to mine the web and found his comment on Facebook on the upcoming “Antinet” – the mass gathering of Orthodox Jews at Citi Field for the purpose of banning the Internet – I decided to a.) take it seriously, and, b.) share it with you.
Ari Abramowitz (Monsey, NY) and Rochel Shira Horowitz (Crown Heights)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.] at 8:30 PM.
Names, places, events and memories were flying so quickly, one wouldn’t know the year was 2012. As the new DVD “Joy!” was being completed for release, a small group gathered at JEM to put the finishing touches on the commentary.
Last Friday afternoon, a group of students of the Stern College for Women at the Yeshiva University stepped off a bus and took a group photo at 770 Eastern Parkway. Some of the girls fidgeted and felt out of place among the crowd of black and white, but by the end of their weekend they would no longer use the phrase “out of place” to describe how they felt in Crown Heights.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Late on Friday afternoon just before Shabbos began, a 41-year-old Jewish man was the victim of a hate crime in front of Bnos Menacheam on East New York and Troy Ave., according to a source in the 71st Precinct.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Moshe Nemanow of Crown Heights at the age of 74.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Miriam Nemanow, and daughters: Mrs. Chanie Moscowitz (Chicago, IL), Mrs. Sara Paltiel (Crown Heights), Mrs. Bassie Marcus (Mission Viejo, CA), Mrs. Rochel Kantor (Rancho S. Margarita, CA), Mrs. Sheiny Vaisfiche (Crown Heights); his brother, Rabbi Yitzchak Nemanow (Brunoy, France); and sister, Mrs. Rochel Pewsner (Crown Heights).
What seems to be a typical day on Kingston Ave. suddenly takes a strange turn…
Crown Heights [CHI] — On Motzei Shabbos, a 15-year-old bochur was on his way home from Shul, when he was accosted on the corner of Albany Ave. and Carroll St. by two African-American males who demanded his cell phone.
At the conclusion of last week, Rabbi Berel Zaklikofsky, Director of Chabad of Goodyear, AZ was invited by Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain Ted Wilson to be honored with delivering the “Jewish prayer” at the National Prayer Breakfast at Arizona’s Luke Air Force Base, located in West Phoenix.
This photo of Muka Berkowitz, 2, daughter of Shluchim to Huntsville, Alabama Laibel and Chanie Berkowitz, appeared today in the Hunsville Times. She is playing a xylophone during Panoply at Big Spring International Park on Sunday, April 29.
Shmuel Levitin (Seattle, WA) and Chaya Winner (Coney Island, NY)
Yehuda Matusof (Crown Heights) and Chaya Weinman (Manchester, UK)
Torah Café presents part two of an interview by Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet with Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank‘s step-sister Eva Schloss, which took place last week on Yom Hashoa at the Mill Hill synagogue in London.
The board members of congregation Ahavas Moische (AKA Maple Street Shul), led by the shul’s caretaker of 36 years Rabbi Eli Blachman, have released the following statement to the Crown Heights Jewish community and the general public regarding litigation being sought against them by a few disgruntled congregants in a Boro Park Beis Din.
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