Chabad Opposes Stamp Commemorating Rebbe

Jerusalem Post

Israeli stamp released in 2006 depicting Lubavitch World Headquarters.

The international Chabad-Lubavitch movement opposed the issue of an Israeli postage stamp to memorialize the last Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, out of concern that licking the back of it would be “disrespectful.”

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Seclusive Community of Neo-Nazis in Brooklyn

Daily Mail

Photographer Adam Krause captured a rare view of neo-Nazis in the Greenpoint neighbourhood of Brooklyn

It is at once a deeply-rooted Polish neighbourhood with industrial roots where immigrants still speak in their native tongue on the streets. At the same time, Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighbourhood is a fast-gentrifying area of New York full of young families and working professionals who wish to live close to Manhattan.

Sukkah to Be Constructed from Mega Blocks in Miami

A miniature model of what the big sukkah will look like.

Two South Florida women are hoping to create unity between the many diverse cultures inhabiting their local area by having community organizations partner in the construction of a succah that will be classified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest succah made entirely out of Mega Bloks.

Info to Be Menachem Avel Rabbi Shmuel Lew

Rabbi Shmuel Lew is sitting Shiva after the passing of his brother, R’ Yitzchock Yosef, OBM at 1566 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.] from Friday until Monday morning. Please refrain from coming between 1:00pm and 4:00pm and no later than 10:00pm.

Shachris: 8:00
Mincha: Friday – 1:00, Sunday – 5:30
Maariv: Bizmanoh

Please send memories and condolences to: nichumforlew@gmail.com

Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim

Jewish Film Festival Engages Female-Only Audiences

Miriam Bogen, left, played by Rivka Siegel, adjusts to life in a Catskills summer camp in Robin Garbose’s “The Heart That Sings.”

One of the most-widely attended Jewish film festivals in the United States shined a spotlight on the lives of religious women this week, treating all-female audiences to screenings of a uniquely feminine work of art and a chance to get to know the film’s director.

From Crown Heights to the Rocky Mountains of Utah

City Weekly

Rabbi Mendel Wilmovsky checks the greens for non-kosher insects.

When Rabbi Mendel Wilmovsky was growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn—worldwide home of Chabad Lubavitch, a Chasidic movement of Orthodox Judaism—he never imagined working in Utah, the state that’s the worldwide home of another religious movement, and at a ski resort, no less. Nevertheless, since December, Wilmovsky and Rabbi Yosef Kirszenberg have been overseeing Bistro at Canyons in Park City, the first kosher restaurant in America housed at a ski resort.

FBI Busts 71st Precinct Officer for Gun Smuggling

NY Times

Three former New York City police officers pleaded guilty on Monday to taking part in a scheme to illegally transport firearms across state lines. One of them, Gary Ortiz, 28, was an active-duty officer in the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights.

Chabad of North Brooklyn Forges Community Ties

On Sunday, February 26, an eclectic mix of 150 guests, among them artists, young professionals and black-hat Hasidic Jews gathered in a Williamsburg art gallery to celebrate the growth and expansion of Chabad of North Brooklyn. As kosher bruschetta made the rounds, the urban crowd admired contemporary art hanging from the white-washed walls as well as joyful photographs of young preschool students who attend the popular Gan Chabad.