Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present three unique, never-seen-before photos of the Rebbe from various years of his Nesius. If you can identify when any of them were taken, please lave a comment in the extended article.
The shining stars of the world, the Shluchim Online School students, joined together for a grand program Thursday.
In the small town of Netishyn, Ukraine, more than 1,500 Jewish bodies are buried in two shallow graves. The bodies are victims of the Einsatzgruppen, Hitler’s infamous para-military death squads that swept through the region in 1941. There is no monument and the victims’ clothing and shoes, along with fragments of Torah scrolls, prayer books and tefillin [phylacteries] still lay on the ground.
All this may change soon, thanks to the efforts of Lea New, a 2008 graduate of Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women.
Yisroel Nissim (Crown Heights) and Raizel Roth (Miami Beach, FL)
L’Chaim will be Motzei Shabbos at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave.]
This Shabbos at the Besht, various speakers will lead discussions and Farbrengens all throughout the Shabbos, including: Rabbi Dov Greenberg (Stanford University), Rabbi Shais Taub (Crown Heights), Rabbi Yossi Lew (Atlanta, GA) and Rabbi Tzvi Freeman (Toronto, Canada). The Shabbos will culminate with a Melave Malka by the Besht’s very own Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson.
During the siege on Mumbai – this Sabbath will mark the third anniversary of its start – the US Consulate in the city were informed that Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were taken to a hospital unconscious and their son is safe, Wikileaks documents reveal. It also shows that during one point after Nariman House were cleared, the consulate was unable to locate the body of Leibish Teitelbaum in the morgue with other victims, and it searched for it in hospitals and morgues.
TEMECULA, CA — The Chabad Jewish Center of Temecula finally has a home that’s not, well —- a home. For the last 12 years, Chabad has operated out of the home of Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz and his wife, Dina. Almost immediately after they moved into Temecula, they opened up their house for a Purim celebration.
David Feldman (Paris, France) and Yetta D. Tatik (Crown Heights)
A bustling day two of the International Kinus Hashluchim took off at the Brooklyn Marriott, with a resource fair for more effective and innovative outreach, and sessions on many Shlichus related issues, such as security and fundraising.
Tomorrow, House of Glatt invites all visiting Shluchm to come by for a free hot Erev Shabbos snack. The shop is located at 385 Kingston Ave. at the corner of Crown St.
Israel’s chief rabbi Yona Metzger is bringing home the bacon. His office says it is primed to allow import of an organic goose grown in Spain that tastes like pork. Metzger says three non-Jewish chefs confirm its swinish flavor. Jewish dietary law strictly forbids eating pork. Metzger’s office says there is no Jewish injunction against eating goose, no matter what it tastes like, as long as it is slaughtered according to Jewish ritual.
Packed furniture, heaps of cement and a few labourers welcome you at Colaba’s Nariman House, days before the third anniversary of the November 26 attacks. Six months after Rabbi Moshe Holtzberg, brother of slain Rabbi Gavriel, reached a peaceful settlement with the orthodox Jewish Chabad movement over the ownership rights of the house, the Colaba building continues to wear a deserted look.
Whatever language they may speak in the country where they serve as Shluchim, Gombo’s Bakery’s sign will make them all feel welcome.
Mendel Alperovitch (Bournemouth, UK) and Mussie Shemtov (Crown Heights)
