One day last October, Chaya Chanin, an Orthodox Jewish woman, sent her two children to the zoo with a babysitter and transformed her three-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights into a high-end boutique.
Head Shliach to Florida Rabbi Avraham Korf farbrenged for the students of Yeshiva Torah Ohr in North Miami Beach, in honor of 24 Teves.
In this 15th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how the Soviet Union’s (failed) attempt at creating a five day week caused a Jew to inadvertently violate the Shabbos.
This Motzei Shabbos, a gathering will be held marking the Shloshim for Shayna Borevitz, of blessed memory. The event will take place at Bnos Menachem, 739 East New York Ave. at 8:00 PM. For women and girls only.
Nochum and Chaya’le (nee Grossbaum) Pinson
1328 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Yosef and Ruth (nee Levitas) Weingarten
1465 President Street [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Levi and Chanchie Matusof
1252 Lincoln place [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Ari and Henny Reiser
646 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Shua and Hindy Brook
451 Crown St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Miller will give a lecture on the topic, Accept or Challenge: How should we respond to life’s problems.
After last month’s unbelievable tale of Hashgocha Protis, where a group of Askanim preventing the autopsy of a Jewish hiker who lost his way on Mt. Rainier and succumbed to hypothermia RL, Rabbi Zalman Heber, Shliach in Tacoma, WA, has been working together with the Seattle Jewish Federation in drafting new legislation that would prevent a medical examiner from performing an autopsy if it is against the family’s religiously held beliefs, unless there is a compelling public interest or foul play involved.
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe giving tzedakah to a child in the front of 770.
Reb Moshe and Reb Yankel Klein are sitting Shiva after the passing of their mother, Pesha Leah, OBM, at 1582 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe is hoping that whoever vandalized a menorah on public display will recognize the seriousness of their actions.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Garfinkel, of Blessed memory. Rabbi Garfinkel was a student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Otwock, Poland, before World War Two. He survived the war, and immigrated to America where he settled in New York. He was a beloved teacher at the Lubvitcher Yershiva on Bedford and Dean St., and later at the one on Ocean Parkway.
The Levaya will take place Motzei Shabbos, 8:00 PM at the Shomrei Hadas funeral home; from there will be flown to Eretz Yisroel for burial.
Yankel Shurpin (Crown Heights) and Miriam Wilhelm (London, UK)
With an unusual amount of snow – early reports indicated that it could be the worst such storm in 30 years – falling in parts of Washington, Jewish centers have canceled events and classes in the hope that all will improve in time for the upcoming Sabbath. But residents have taken the hassle in stride: Some in Olympia, by far the hardest-hit area, were out playing in the snow Wednesday and Thursday with their families.
Avner Anton (Marblehead, MA) and Dini Goldstein (Madrid, Spain)
The Jewish community of Zaporozhye, Ukraine, celebrated a milestone in the city’s Jewish renaissance with the dedication January 12 of a central synagogue and community center.
Big Hearted Jewish Brooklynites pile food on thousands of plates on Friday night, feeding hungry strangers they’ve met on a Facebook-styled site where collecting “invites” is key.
Bnei Brak’s Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau has warned that turning on faucets in some multi-story apartment buildings leads to the desecration of Shabbat.
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