The folks at Ohel took a huge gamble when they decided to stage a concert and keep the lineup top secret. Were people really going to spend big bucks to come to a show without knowing who the performers would be? The answer, apparently, was yes, as Mason Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center was completely sold out for the annual benefit concert.
This past Shabbos, the Crown Heights community were privileged to host over 850 college students who came together for a Shabbaton filled with achdus, ruach and pride in being Jewish. Arranged and facilitated by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation, the Shabbaton brings together students from the over 165 Chabad Student Centers around the United States, Canada, Europe and the UK for a weekend of speeches, lectures, Shabbos meals and fun activities.
With more than 1000 new cars on the road every day, Brazil ranks among the worst traffic cities in the world. It’s so bad, many will do whatever they can to avoid spinning their wheels on Sao Paulo’s congested roads.
Law School students attending JTVS/Bramson ORT College were given a special treat yesterday, Monday, November 14, 2011. The students had the unique opportunity to observe a lecture by a world renowned Torts expert, Law professor and devout Hasid at Brooklyn Law School.
More than 250 Crown Heights residents gathered in the Jewish Children’s Museum on Motzei Shabbos to celebrate Yagdil Torah’s first annual Melave Malka, commemorating its five year anniversary, and paying tribute some of their popular Magidei Shiur; Rabbi Michoel Lerner, Rabbi Sholom Ber Levin and Rabbi Tzvi Rimler.
Sholom Ber and Batsheva (nee Wilhelm) Piekarski (Crown Heights)
Peretz and Chaya Mochkin (Montreal, Canada)
In the past four months, the Crown Heights Jewish Community has seen as many child abuse-related arrests and reports as there have been in the past 20 years.
Chaim Eliyahu and Sora Levinson (Kharkov, Ukraine)
A Jewish woman was R”L murdered in Flatbush, on Tuesday morning. The horrific stabbing happened just after 1:00AM on Homecrest Avenue and Avenue U. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
In honor of the upcoming 51st regional kinus of the Rebbe’s shluchim in Eretz Yisroel, we present this photo from the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov depicting the 8th regional kinus in 1969. Can you identify the dignitaries at the head table?
Hundreds of Jewish residents attended memorial events to commemorate 70 years since the Nazi Massacre of Jews in the city of Rovno in the Vohlin region (then in Poland, now in Ukraine).
Gershon and Frumie (nee Simpson) Avtzon (Cincinnati, OH)
Shmuli and Esti (nee Lozenick) Klein (Crown Heights)
Danny and Mushki (nee Unterslak) Denburg (Johannesburg, South Africa)
On a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn nearly four years ago, Andrew Charles was beaten. Then 20 years old, Charles was allegedly maced and bludgeoned with a baton. Yitzchak Shuchat, a member of the Shmira, a Hasidic community patrol in Crown Heights, is charged with the crime.
A synagogue has been vandalized in the eastern Belarusian city of Babruysk, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports.
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