Crime is poised to climb in New York City for the first time in two decades. The uptick is all but certain, despite 11th-hour scrambling by police to keep their record-smashing crime-fighting streak intact.
This Chanuka, Rabbi Shmuly G., of Chabad Youth Network of Florida, and his traveling olive press show, saw thousands of Jewish children produce olive oil for Chanukah in over 50 schools and Synagogues in South Florida. [Update: Menorah parade photos added.]
Monticello, NY [CHI] — Someone broke into the Landfield Avenue Synagogue, AKA Chabad of Monticello, NY, on Friday or Shabbos and stole the Sefer Torah. Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz and his congragation arrived at the shul on Shabbos morning, horrified to discover that the Shul was ransacked and the Sefer Torah was missing.
Yale Wolf (Chicago, IL) and Rivky Grossbaum (St. Paul, MN)
L’chaim tonight, Monday at Beis Rivka
310 Crown St. [Between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Moishy (ben Yossi) Korf (Crown Heights) and Rivka Moskovitz (Kharkov, Ukraine)
L’chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Each week day, 22 children living in Tijuana rise before the sun to catch a shuttle that takes them to school. Why wake so early? School isn’t just around the corner, or even in the next town over. Rather, these kids traverse 40 miles and one international border to arrive at Chabad Hebrew Academy in Poway, California.
At the Oholei Torah Hey Teves book fair, a student stood in the middle of the ballroom with a display of postcards that his great-grandfather received from the Rogachover Gaon, Reb Yosef Rosen of Blessed Memory, as answers to his Talmudic questions.
Students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva had the opportunity to fill one of the Rebbes Horaos of the day, Hey Teves, to buy Seforim at deep discounted prices!
Zevi Slavin (Crown Heights) and Adina Druin (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
In honor of Hey Teves, Oholei Torah students enjoyed a full program from Grades Pre 1A-8, including: a Seforim Sale, an overview of the Rebbeim’s Seforim, a hands on exhibition on how ink is made, a Chinese auction and a special presentation by one of the eighth grade students about his great grandfather’s correspondence with the Ragotchover Ga’on.
Want to go to the 8th Day concert this coming Motzai Shabbos? How about going for free along with your family or friends? CrownHeights.info and Chabad of West Hempstead teamed up and together we are offering two FREE family packs of tickets, four tickets per pack to the concert which is going to take place January 7th, 2012.
Seven years ago was the first time Sumy Ukraine saw a public Menorah. It was in the middle of what is now known as ‘the orange revolution,’ and there was little hope that the government would allow a public menorah.
A story is told that in 1929, when the Previous Rebbe made a trip to Israel, his vehicle broke down on the road to Tzfat, and was warmly welcomed in to someone’s home and was served tea. Who was this family? Did this incident really happen? The Encounter with the Rebbe team found this person!
The Rosh Chodesh Society has been causing quite a stir amongst shluchos and the women of their communities. So much so that a group of Crown Heights women, who got wind of this, decided that they wanted the opportunity that so many women up and down the country are boasting. They got together and, at the last N’shei convention, encouraged Mrs. Shaindy Jacobson to bring the RCS courses to our shchuna. Fortunately, they succeeded!
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, January 2, for New Year’s. Parking meter regulations will be suspended as well.
Shneur Inglis (London, UK) and Rivky Berkowitz (Detroit, MI)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Mendy White (Brooklyn, NY) and Pesha Angster (Baltimore, MD)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
Yisroel Dovid Klein (Manchester, UK) and Ilana Rivkah Ellis (New York, NY)
585 Crown St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.] at 8:30
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