Baby Girl!
Eliezer and Leah Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Yankel and Chanie (nee Yarmush) Berkowitz (Toronto, Canada)
...to convicted child predator. ”This is one of the most aggravating circumstances and crimes that I've ever seen. This, I must say, is the most depraved I have had for some time," said Linda Reade before the sentencing. Really Linda!? Was Sholom Rubashkin's case that long ago? after all, he must have been equally evil, having received an (almost) equal sentence.
Judge Linda Reade Dishes Out 30 Year Sentence…
…to convicted child predator. ”This is one of the most aggravating circumstances and crimes that I’ve ever seen. This, I must say, is the most depraved I have had for some time,” said Linda Reade before the sentencing. Really Linda!? Was Sholom Rubashkin‘s case that long ago? after all, he must have been equally evil, having received an (almost) equal sentence.
500 Supporters Celebrate with Chabad of Alaska
The Eighth Annual Auction of Chabad in Alaska has attracted again more than 500 business leaders and government officials thanks to the hard work of the friends of Chabad in Alaska, Gala Co-Chairs, Liz Ashlock and Shani Green. The “Event of the Year” in Alaska took place at the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage and raised funds in support of the Esformes Campus in Alaska, which includes Chabad House, Synagogue, School, and Jewish Museum, led by the Shluchim Rabbi Yosef and Esty Greenberg.
Besht Launches New Weekly Gemara Shiur
Starting today, the Besht Center will be hosting a weekly shiur on Gemara every Tuesday. The Shiur will be given by a renowned Torah scholar, and will be connected to the Parshah of the week. Today’s shiur will be given by Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman, and will be on the subject “Can one transfer ownership of an object which has not yet come into existence?”
Baby Boy!
Chilik and Shayna (nee Teitlebaum) Kalmenson (Montreal, Canada)
Music Video: Ani Yehudi (I Am a Jew)
Baby Girl!
Moishe and Deena Gutleizer (Crown Heights)
New Torah Occupies Wall Street
Only a stone’s throw from Zuccotti Park where protestors clashed with police last Wednesday evening, scores of Wall Street businesspeople and residents took to dancing in the rain at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Battery Place.
In unseasonably mild weather, The Friendship Circle’s recent Walk 4 Friendship drew more than one thousand participants and raised $430,000 to support its mission of continually cultivating friendships through their wide range of ever-evolving programming. Decked out in bright blue t-shirts, the walkers marched the symbolic 1.5 KM route around Hampstead Park allowing everyone to take part in the fun.
Montreal Unites for Friendship
In unseasonably mild weather, The Friendship Circle’s recent Walk 4 Friendship drew more than one thousand participants and raised $430,000 to support its mission of continually cultivating friendships through their wide range of ever-evolving programming. Decked out in bright blue t-shirts, the walkers marched the symbolic 1.5 KM route around Hampstead Park allowing everyone to take part in the fun.
Baby Girl!
Mendel and Chaya (nee Baras) Berkowitz (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Yisroel and Shuli Labkowski (North Miami Beach, FL)
New Engagement!
Ari Weingarten (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Block (San Antonio, TX)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavicher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Jerusalem Vaad Tznius Member Heading to Prison
The High Court of Justice on Monday, 24 Cheshvan, rejected an appeal filed on behalf of Shmuel Weissfish, a member of the Geula neighborhood’s Vaad HaTznius. Shmuel was convicted of a number of acts of violence in targeting an area business that he deemed unsuitable. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment, which he will be beginning before Chanukah. In addition, he must reimburse the store’s owner for damage to the tune of 50,000 Shekels ($13,300).
New Engagement!
Chaim Muller (London, UK) and Rivka Israel (Sydney, Australia)
Nearly one-third of the state’s population will be on Medicaid in three years if ObamaCare is upheld by the US Supreme Court, state officials said.
ObamaCare Will Push 1 Million NYers into Medicaid
Nearly one-third of the state’s population will be on Medicaid in three years if ObamaCare is upheld by the US Supreme Court, state officials said.
A Bar/Bat Mitzvah for Those Who Never Had One
The Rohr Chabad Student Network in Ottawa, Canada, led by Rabbi Chaim and Yocheved Boyarsky, celebrated a Gala Bat & Bar Mitzva for students who never had one this past Saturday night, Nov. 20.
