New Engagement!
Yehoshua Betesh (Crown Heights) and Bracha Stern (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday at 1486 Union St.
[between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
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Celebrating a Ritual as It Comes Under Fire
A few dozen friends and family huddled around Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel and his family last week as he held his 8-day-old son on a pillow and invited loved ones to say prayers while a fellow rabbi organized his tools on a nearby table. The youngest Zwiebel—he was yet to be named—was about to go through one of Judaism’s most sacred rituals, the bris milah, more commonly known as circumcision.
Monsey Cheder Boys Hold Parsha Fair
In honor of Monsey Cheder Chabad’s 5th grade finishing Parshas Bo, the entire school was treated to a project fair where the students of 5th grade presented the story-line and the Mitzvos in the Parsha through 3-D projects, posters, tri-folds and dioramas.
During the Republican presidential primary debate in Florida last week, a man identifying himself as a Palestinian Republican asked the candidates what they would do to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were both given the opportunity to responed; who do you think did a better job?
Video: Romney and Gingrich Respond to Palestinian
During the Republican presidential primary debate in Florida last week, a man identifying himself as a Palestinian Republican asked the candidates what they would do to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were both given the opportunity to responed; who do you think did a better job?
Sterling Electronics, a Kingston Ave. landmark, has been sold by Yossi and Mendy Brickman to the store's manager for the past couple of years, Simcha S.
Sterling Electronics Has New Owner
Sterling Electronics, a Kingston Ave. landmark, has been sold by Yossi and Mendy Brickman to the store’s manager for the past couple of years, Simcha S.
The Rebbe often stressed the importance of helping Released Time in honor of Yud Shevat. Please enjoy this video of the Rebbe and the Released Time children during Sukkos 5737 – 1976.
Video: The Rebbe and Released Time
The Rebbe often stressed the importance of helping Released Time in honor of Yud Shevat. Please enjoy this video of the Rebbe and the Released Time children during Sukkos 5737 – 1976.
Driving from the school run yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing my six-year-old brother's full run-down of the latest school news: which teacher he likes and which he isn't so keen on etc. Despite being 16 years his senior, it’s almost enjoyable to hear it, not least as it reminds me of myself at that age. But in the middle of it all, he mentioned something that made me think.
Op-Ed: What Happened to the Moshiach Campaign?
Driving from the school run yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing my six-year-old brother’s full run-down of the latest school news: which teacher he likes and which he isn’t so keen on etc. Despite being 16 years his senior, it’s almost enjoyable to hear it, not least as it reminds me of myself at that age. But in the middle of it all, he mentioned something that made me think.
“How do you tell people about the importance of a mikvah and then tell them they have to drive 250 miles to get there?”
A mikvah for Jackson Hole, Wyoming
“How do you tell people about the importance of a mikvah and then tell them they have to drive 250 miles to get there?”
A Yechidus in 1951 That Inspired 10,000+ Tefillin
This picture, which I recently found, reminded me of a Yechidus that my father, Reb Avrohom Dovid Tennenhaus OBM, had with the Rebbe the night of Yud Shvat, 5711 – the evening before the Rebbe officially assumed leadership.
Beis Chana Alumnae to Gather for Online Farbrengen
Beis Chana Tzfat invites all its alumnae from the past 36 years to participate in their live streaming broadcast in honor of Yud Shvat.
Pablo K. of Montevideo, Uruguay likes to learn. One evening, he attended a class that looked at a chapter from the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides’ massive compilation of Jewish law, without ever leaving his house. As a participant in a new Spanish-language online venture, the businessman can fit the demands of a yeshiva into an already-hectic schedule.
Online Yeshiva Gains Spanish-Speaking Following
Pablo K. of Montevideo, Uruguay likes to learn. One evening, he attended a class that looked at a chapter from the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides’ massive compilation of Jewish law, without ever leaving his house. As a participant in a new Spanish-language online venture, the businessman can fit the demands of a yeshiva into an already-hectic schedule.
Photos: Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah in Lod
On Monday, the family of Rabbi Shmuel Gurewitz, OBM, of Shikun Chabad, Lod, commemorated his first yohrtzeit with a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah, dedicated in his, as well as his wife Esther‘s, memory.
Jews in Super Bowl History
With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a sandwich.
Girls Examine Kosher Laws in Lego Competition
Tzivi Heber, Hadas Orlev and their friends aren’t just playing with Lego building blocks after school. They’re doing it in the name of science.
Not since Melanie Griffith donned a sheitel to play an undercover cop in the 1992 film “A Stranger Among Us,” has an A-list celebrity (not counting Matisyahu) brought an entourage film crew into chasidic Brooklyn.
Oprah Goes Orthodox (Sort Of)
Not since Melanie Griffith donned a sheitel to play an undercover cop in the 1992 film “A Stranger Among Us,” has an A-list celebrity (not counting Matisyahu) brought an entourage film crew into chasidic Brooklyn.
160 Chabad Preschool Educators Gather to Brainstorm
On January 16th over 160 teachers and educators from over 20 Chabad schools around the New York area – some as far as New Haven and Philadelphia – joined together to learn and network at a joint Inservice Day, organized by Devora Krasnianski of the Chabad Early Childhood Education (CECE) Network, a project of The Shluchim Office. Mrs. Shternie Raskin and Mrs. Chanie Rogatsky of Kiddie Korner, the Chabad preschool in Brooklyn Heights, hosted the event.
Kollel Menachem Trains Shluchim in Melbourne
Kollel Menachem of Melbourne, Australia recently hosted a training seminar for local Shluchim. Guest speaker Rabbi Ari Shishler of South Africa presented on the topic of Strategies for Effective Adult Education. Rabbi Shishler shared his insights and experience as a popular speaker and as Director of Adult Education at the central Chabad House of Johannesburg.
