Rabbi Levi Yitzchok and Shoshanah Sarfati and their son Menachem Mendel will be joining the team of Shluchim in New Zealand, together they will iy”h be directing the North Island’s Chabad House for Israeli backpackers in Auckland City, where many thousands of young Israelis travel through each year.
Dovid and Chana Keila (nee Krasnjanski) Cohen (Crown Heights)
History came to life in Cheder Menachem of New Jersey, a Cheder servicing the Tzeirei HaShluchim of the area, when they enjoyed a visit from Rabbi Avraham Berns, former librarian to the Rebbe’s library, in honor of Hey Teves.
Students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s newly established rabbinical school spread out across central Africa over Chanukah to connect with area Jews and a cluster of communities throughout the continent. Traveling by boat and plane to Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Gabon, Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville in the Congo Republic, and Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, they hosted public menorah lightings and holiday events throughout the region with the backing of Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa.
Pictures from the wedding of Srulie Estrin (Pittsburgh, PA) and Leiba Herman (Raleigh, NC), which took place on December 25, 2011 in the North Raleigh Hilton.
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said young people’s reading and conversational skills were being put at risk by overexposure to modern technology.
Zalman and Shiffy (nee Zaetz) Goldstein (Crown Heights)
Shmuli and Sara (nee Dinerman) Stiefel (Crown Heights)
A number of years ago, I received a frantic phone call from a Shliach who had been an old friend from our days together in Yeshiva. He stated that he was about to be evicted from his home, and that if he didn’t come up with thousands of dollars, his family would be on the street.
Less than a month after celebrating the dedication of a new Torah scroll, the small, but historic Jewish community of Kremenchug, Ukraine, was forced to again deal with anti-Semitism after a Molotov cocktail ignited a fire and damaged its synagogue’s exterior.
This year for Hey Teves, Cheder at the Ohel chose to celebrate this special day at the Levi Yitzchok Jewish Children’s Library in Cedarhurst Long Island.
The dreidels were spinning and the latkes were frying all during Chanukah as the Chabad Neshama Center catered to the Russian American Jewish Community of Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, hosting entertaining and inspiring events each day of the holiday.
Children in Lubavitcher Yeshivas 2nd grade were rewarded for their outstanding learning and honored with being the first to recite the twelve pesukim and reherse some of the pesukim in chumash that they learned. The students were rewarded with pizza, fries and soda from Crown Heightses new pizzaria Pomodori on Kingston Avenue.
Only days after the Dutch Parliament rejected proposed legislation to ban shechitah in Holland, Deputy Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) Rabbi L. Goldberg told the Knesset Committee for Aliya, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs that in order to prevent a wave of legislation proscribing shechitah, better public diplomacy needs to be used.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, participated last week in a Hachnosas Sefer Torah for a Buchari Congregation in Queens, NY, which is supporded by the philathropist Levi Levaiev.
An incident happened on Monday night in the heart of Flatbush, that left two women and their infant children badly shaken, but thankfully not hurt.
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