How could G-d allow the innocent children of Sandy Hook to be murdered by a madman? And the inquisition, the holocaust, the intifada and countless atrocities, both communal and personal, that have occurred throughout history? This is the perennial question that arises at times of crisis.
Shlome Junik (Crown Heights) and Shana Singer (Aventura, FL)
Zev Adler (Baltimore, MD) and Chana Steinhauser (Crown Heights)
Yoni Eizicovics (Toronto, Ontario) and Miriam Leebhoff (Los Angeles, CA)
The Jewish community of Vietnam recently marked the opening of the nation’s first mikvah (ritual bath). More than one hundred community members and oversees businessmen gathered to salute the new mikvah and Chabad-Lubavitch of Vietnam, headed by Rabbi Menachem and Rachel Hartman.
Thursday Night, the Fifth night of Chanukah, Jew in the City blogger Allison Josephs hosted a Chanukah Party in Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattans Upper East Side. The party featured the launch of “Top 10 Orthodox Jewish All Stars” video.
In preparation for the JNet Phoneathon to take place next week, JNet members Schneur Zalman Baumgarten, Berel Bronstein, Avi Kammen, Tzivia Jacobson, Etta Chaya Brummel, and Ortal Hoffman filmed a special promo video to get Crown Heights ready.
NEW YORK, NY — ElAl’s Unity Sefer Torah, which began in the Rebbes Room and has been traveling around the world, made a stop in the United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City on the third night of Chanukah.
Chaim Yeshaya (ben Mendel) Zalmanov (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (Bas Nochum) Pinson (Brunoy, France)
L’Chaim today, Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
DES PLAINES, IL — Hanukkah celebrates the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem, so it was only fitting that the Chabad and F.R.E.E. of Niles synagogue celebrated its renovation Sunday during the last day of the holiday.
Pictures from the l’chaim of Yoni Sarue (Los Angeles, CA) to Sara Rochel Flammer (Monsey, NY).
Property developer Harry Triguboff has stepped in to save Yeshiva (Sydney) from collapse by purchasing its two properties on Flood Street, Bondi, for $6 million. Triguboff will then lease the properties back to Yeshiva, Yeshiva College and other Chabad institutions for a peppercorn rent.
It is well-known that there is a group of thugs that parade around as Yeshiva Bochurim who terrorize and attack anyone who does not agree with their “shita.” Over the years there have been countless incidents, where they have verbally and physically attacked those that are not from their “camp.” Usually these attacks occur in 770.
Tzvi and Simmie (nee Kershner) Gellman (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS — A short but wild chase ended with the arrest of four individuals for trespassing and resisting arrest after they were found in an apartment of a building whose inhabitants are mostly Jewish.
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