Chevra Ahavas Yisroel is coming up for their first anniversary since they opened. It has been spoken about ad nauseum since its inception. Some praised the shul for their innovative weekly minyanim and their many unique events throughout the year.
Avigdor and Devory Zeitlin (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at Anshei N.E.L.M
960 St. John’s Street [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Last week, over 1,500 people from the Jewish community in Sao Paulo, Brazil filled the Bradesco bank theater to mark the 17th anniversary of Yeshiva Ohel Menachem Lubavitch in Sao Paulo.
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatzidkanis Mrs. Rachel Bas Sara Pinson of Crown Heights. The Funeral will take place tomorrow, G-d willing, Thursday Dec 8th – 12 Kislev at 10:15 am at the Shomrei Hadas Chapel in Boro Park, 3803 14th Ave. The procession will continue afterwards through Eastern Parkway and stop in front of 770.
More than two decades after selling its building as part of an expansion campaign, a suburban Chicago synagogue and Jewish center is expanding once again, utilizing its former home to support a new organizational structure designed to leverage what its rabbis do best: helping people of all ages and Jewish backgrounds.
At least 20 offensive comments made on a Facebook page about the city’s annual West Indian Day Parade may have come from police officers, and the department is seeking computer records, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Thurday, December 8th, for a Catholic holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Shmuly Milecki (Sydney, Australia) and Sarah Margolis (Oak Park, MI)
Conservative celebrity and Radio/TV talk show host Glenn Beck discusses “Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson” by Simon Jacobson.
The 52-year-old New Brunswick man arrested in a window-smashing spree at Jewish businesses and institutions in Highland Park and New Brunswick is himself Jewish.
A group of Jewish boys in yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the “Taste of Mexico” restaurant on Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali man wearing a keffiyeh scarf around his neck passed by, perhaps on his way to the town’s makeshift mosque on Main Street.
Chabad Lubavitch of Southern Ontario honoured MP Jason Kenney with the Distinguished Public Service Award, at their 33rd annual dinner, Sunday, Dec. 4.
About a year ago, a Chabad Rabbi got in touch with me and asked if I would agree to meet a senior Jewish PETA executive named Philip Schein. Philip’s wife Hannah, who also works for PETA, is in charge of PETA undercover investigations.
Shlomo Mehlman (Silver Spring, MD) and Michal Shaffer (Crown Heights)
Beis Yaakov Ohel Sarah isn’t the biggest girls’ school in all of Brooklyn, and that’s a status they prefer to keep. The waiting list to enroll a new student into their Chabad Mosad in the heart of Midwood attests to their tight-ship operation.
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