The Chanukah Telethon aired recently featured ‘a first’ on television, a Pidyon HaBen – the redemption of the [first born] son, for a 12 year old! Also honored were two Nassau County police officers who were killed in the line of duty.
Through the hard work of Shliach Rabbi Uri Tawil, and the assistance of the philanthropist Johnny and and his son Gad Czarninsky, a new Mikva is being built in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Pinny and Chana (nee Laine) Lew (Crown Heights)
Oholei Torah’s younger division, grades Pre-1a through 2nd held a father and son Melava Malka which featured a special program, prizes and a special visit from singing sensation Benny Friedman.
Horav Hachossid Reb Yosef Menachem Mendel Tenenbaum was born in 1917 to Hachossid Reb Yitzchok and Mrs. Sima Masha in Kotzk, Poland. Reb Mendel’s maternal grandfather, Reb Alter Yaakov Yehuda, was a Kotzker chossid. Chassidim recalled that the Kotzker Rebbe would not begin davening until Reb Alter had come into shul.
This Monday the 11th of Teves, marks the 5th Yartzeit of Rabbi Zev and Rochel Simons OBM, of Sydney, Australia. Zev and Rochel were Shluchim of the Rebbe who devoted and dedicated their lives to educating children, and were beloved and cherished members of the Sydney Jewish community.
CROWN HEIGHTS — A 9-year-old child was critically injured in an early Shabbos morning accident in the intersection of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway. EMS treated the boy and Hatzalahs assistance was not needed and according to DNAinfo he is currently listed in critical condition in Kings County Hospital.
Though hectic was the name of the game at many a Chabad House during the weeks preceding Chanukah, the arrival of an unassuming white box in the mail lifted a weight off the shoulders of many shluchim and shluchos around the world. Their CKids Chanukah program had arrived.
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The fast begins Sunday at 5:34am and ends at 5:09pm (NYC)
On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on Tammuz 9, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe Reading the Haftarah of a fast day 10 Tevet, 5748 · December 31, 1987
Mendel and Kaila Rivka Feldman (Crown Heights)
Zalman Werdiger (Melbourne, Australia) and Mushke Kirschenbaum (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS — He just can’t get a break! The owner of a late model Infinity M37 whose tires were stolen back in October just a few hundred feet away, was the victim of the same theft once again – only this time his window was smashed and the car was burglarized too.
According to a column published today on NYC news website DNAinfo, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly New York City has seen the largest number of people arrested in the city’s history – jumping nearly 23 percent compered to the year before Bloomberg took office.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Chazan will lead a discussion on Yehuda and Yosef – in the future.
Mendy and Goldie Barnett
531 Brooklyn Ave. Apt 4C [Between E New York and Maple St.]
Aizik and Musia (nee Goldman) Baumgarten
1574 Carroll St. [Between Troy and Albany Ave.]
Moishe and Esther Kavka (Rockville, MD)
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