Baby Boy!
Shlame and Miriam (nee Brook) Landa (Fairfield, CT)
The Forklift Shul
It’s one thing to feel holiness when you enter a synagogue on Shabbat or a holy day. You go in expecting holiness. You expect that the rabbi’s sermon will inspire you; that you will have a spiritual experience and connect with God.
Photo Gallery: Staff Appreciation BBQ at CGI Parksville
Last night after the campers had fallen fast asleep, the staff and counselors of Gan Israel Parksville made their way down to the camp square. What awaited them was a beautifully arranged BBQ!
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Chabad Camp is Summer Fun for Jewish Kids
Sara Slavin saw a real need in Mississauga for a Jewish summer day camp. The city’s Jewish population isn’t huge but the closest summer camps for Jewish children are in Hamilton and Toronto.
The Lubavitcher Rabbi’s Memoirs are a veritable treasure chest of Chasidic learning and lore, of anecdotes, historical annotations and commemorations, and represent the very best of informal writing from the prolific pen of the sixth leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of blessed memory and are now back in print and available from Kehot Publication Society.
Chasidic Classic Back in Print
The Lubavitcher Rabbi’s Memoirs are a veritable treasure chest of Chasidic learning and lore, of anecdotes, historical annotations and commemorations, and represent the very best of informal writing from the prolific pen of the sixth leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, of blessed memory and are now back in print and available from Kehot Publication Society.
Report: Kletzky Murderer to Plead Guilty
The Brooklyn Butcher will likely die in prison in a plea deal that’s been agreed to by all sides, the Daily News has learned.
First Ever Daf Yomi Siyum in Crown Heights
The Jewish world today celebrates the completion of learning Shas after seven and a half years of learning one page a day, with central celebrations held in all major Jewish communities around the world, especially in Eretz Yisroel and in America – the main event will be tonight in the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. This morning, for the first time in [Lubavitch inhabited] Crown Heights, Congregation Anash 770 Montgomery St. held a Daf Yomi siyum as well.
JTeen: Where It’s Hip to Be a Jew
Believe it or not, at one time, Rabbi Daniel Bortz, a 20-something, energetic, newly ordained Chabad rabbi, wasn’t so Jewishly observant.
New Engagement!
Shragi Putter (Crown Heights) and Fraydee Boyarsky (Montreal, Canada)
Picture of the Day: New Smoothie Shop on Kingston
A new sign is being put up this morning by Sign It Inc. for a new juice and smoothie shop on Kingston Ave. near Montgomery St.
Baby Girl!
Sholom Ber and Zeldie (nee Hecht) Cunin (Los Angeles, CA)
Brandeis Alumni Keep Up with Chabad
At a Friday night dinner in a New York City apartment in mid-July, young professionals celebrated Shabbat around long tables with familiar faces they hadn’t seen since college, and a lively routine led by Chabad campus representatives Rabbi Peretz and Chanie Chein, harking back to the popular campus Shabbat dinners at Brandeis University.
Governor to Veto Funding for Private Special-Ed
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will veto a bill requiring school officials to consider religion and other family beliefs when approving taxpayer-funded tuition for special-education students at private schools, an administration official said.
New Engagement!
Binyomin Lieblich (Crown Heights) and Zahava Shagalov (California / Crown Heights)
