As today, 9th of Teves, marks the end of Shiva for Rabbi Hirshel Chitrik, Oholei Torah presents a gallery of pictures spanning over 50 years of Rabbi Chitrik’s involvement with the Mossad.
Sholom Ber Kapluschnik (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Miriam Minsky (Crown Heights)
L’chaim tonight, Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
The Rabbinical College Of America – Chabad Lubavitch HQ of New Jersey, under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Herson, has been sending student representatives to Rutgers University to do outreach work with the over 7,000 Jewish students on campus.
Popular web personality Allison Jospeh, who hosts her webshow Jew in the City, was the star in a show that was not her own. Freeda Wigs took Allison and ‘made her over,’ with a new complimentary wig and style. They shot a portion of the show at Basil in Crown Heights.
The Republican presidential candidates propelled out of the Iowa caucuses Wednesday with the race looking dramatically different than it did just one week ago. Mitt Romney won the night, but only by one of the slimmest margins in Iowa election history.
Rabbi Levi Yitzchok and Shoshanah Sarfati and their son Menachem Mendel will be joining the team of Shluchim in New Zealand, together they will iy”h be directing the North Island’s Chabad House for Israeli backpackers in Auckland City, where many thousands of young Israelis travel through each year.
Dovid and Chana Keila (nee Krasnjanski) Cohen (Crown Heights)
History came to life in Cheder Menachem of New Jersey, a Cheder servicing the Tzeirei HaShluchim of the area, when they enjoyed a visit from Rabbi Avraham Berns, former librarian to the Rebbe’s library, in honor of Hey Teves.
Students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s newly established rabbinical school spread out across central Africa over Chanukah to connect with area Jews and a cluster of communities throughout the continent. Traveling by boat and plane to Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Gabon, Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville in the Congo Republic, and Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, they hosted public menorah lightings and holiday events throughout the region with the backing of Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa.
Pictures from the wedding of Srulie Estrin (Pittsburgh, PA) and Leiba Herman (Raleigh, NC), which took place on December 25, 2011 in the North Raleigh Hilton.
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said young people’s reading and conversational skills were being put at risk by overexposure to modern technology.
Zalman and Shiffy (nee Zaetz) Goldstein (Crown Heights)
Shmuli and Sara (nee Dinerman) Stiefel (Crown Heights)
A number of years ago, I received a frantic phone call from a Shliach who had been an old friend from our days together in Yeshiva. He stated that he was about to be evicted from his home, and that if he didn’t come up with thousands of dollars, his family would be on the street.
Less than a month after celebrating the dedication of a new Torah scroll, the small, but historic Jewish community of Kremenchug, Ukraine, was forced to again deal with anti-Semitism after a Molotov cocktail ignited a fire and damaged its synagogue’s exterior.
This year for Hey Teves, Cheder at the Ohel chose to celebrate this special day at the Levi Yitzchok Jewish Children’s Library in Cedarhurst Long Island.
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