Target Praised for Using Down Syndrome Boy in Ad
NY Daily News
Ryan (far left), a six-year-old boy with Down syndrome, in a recent clothing ad for Target.
Target is raking in praise over a recent ad featuring a 6-year-old boy with Down syndrome.
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Hundreds Attend Hatzalah Health Symposium & Benefit
Photos by Chaim Perl for Hatzalah
Oholei Torah’s ballroom filled up Motzei Shabbos with hundreds of guests attending the annual Crown Heights Hatzalah fundraiser.
Photos & Video: 8th Day Rocks Long Island
At a concert benefiting the Friendship Circle of West Hempstead, Long Island, the 8th Day’s Shmuly and Bentzy Marcus, along with their brother Eli, performed a rocking show for the large crowd, including their hit song Yalili, as well as a number of brand new songs.
JLI Launches in Germany
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky announced that JLI, the adult education arm of Chabad Lubavitch, will now be launching in Germany, joining more than 350 branches worldwide with more than a quarter million students.
Baby Girl!
Shmaya and Rochie (nee Silver) Galperin (Holmdel, NJ)
Forging Friendships, Preserving Memory
Holocaust survivors are a fast dwindling population. But buried with many a survivor who dies is a story of untold suffering and loss, and also, lessons of an extraordinary will for life.
JTA
Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz shows the empty cabinet where the Torah was stolen from.
A New York state synagogue is holding a rally to help locate a stolen Torah. The handwritten Sefer Torah and $200 in cash were found to be missing on Saturday after a break-in at the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello, NY.
Chabad House to Hold Rally to Locate Stolen Torah
JTA
Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz shows the empty cabinet where the Torah was stolen from.
A New York state synagogue is holding a rally to help locate a stolen Torah. The handwritten Sefer Torah and $200 in cash were found to be missing on Saturday after a break-in at the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello, NY.
Baby Girl!
Yitzy and Sheina Silver (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Code of Jewish Law, Laws of Shabbos, Chapter 329: If non-Jews besiege a Jewish border town — whether in the Holy Land or in the Diaspora — stating that they come only to pilfer straw, Jews are obligated to arm themselves for war, even on Shabbos, because such an intrusion opens up the entire Jewish land to attack.
Weekly Living Torah Video: G-d’s Roadmap
Code of Jewish Law, Laws of Shabbos, Chapter 329: If non-Jews besiege a Jewish border town — whether in the Holy Land or in the Diaspora — stating that they come only to pilfer straw, Jews are obligated to arm themselves for war, even on Shabbos, because such an intrusion opens up the entire Jewish land to attack.
Twin Girls!
Berel and Chanie (nee Shagalow) Sosover (Overland Park, KS)
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Mendel and Shani (nee Thaler) Benish
1398 Union St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Dovid and Chana Keila (nee Krasnjanski) Cohen
1532 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya Elisha
808 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Apt. 3
Moishy and Chaya Mushka Katz
713 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yossi and Esti (nee Liberow) Bryski
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present these unique photos of the Rebbe from Yud Shvat, 1964.
New Engagement!
Yekusiel (ben R’ Levi) Goldstein (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (bas R’ Aharon) Wolf (Chicago, IL)
L’chaim Motzoei Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Join Hatzalah of Crown Heights this Motzai Shabbos for an informative health symposium which will include a hot buffet along with a wine tasting, as well as the drawing for their annual $18,000 raffle. Also, 3 iPads will be raffled off to all those who attend. All this will take place in Oholei Torah on Motzai Shabbos at 8:00pm. The event is for both women and men, with separate seating.
Motzai Shabbos: Health Symposium & $18,000 Raffle!
Join Hatzalah of Crown Heights this Motzai Shabbos for an informative health symposium which will include a hot buffet along with a wine tasting, as well as the drawing for their annual $18,000 raffle. Also, 3 iPads will be raffled off to all those who attend. All this will take place in Oholei Torah on Motzai Shabbos at 8:00pm. The event is for both women and men, with separate seating.
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