Monday night, some 20 people gathered for an innovative Torah study session. Between bites of Sushi, their excited voices filled the room as they took turns learning. Known as Chavrusa Sushi, the program brings in young professionals living in Crown Heights for a series of one-on-one, chavrusa, learning sessions.
Avremy and Esther Fischweicher (Atlanta, GA)
Eli Sandhaus (Crown Heights) and Basha Steinhauser (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Re’im Ahuvim
1614 Carroll St. [corner Schenectady Ave.]
A unique opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes and meet with one of Chabad’s most influential thinkers. For the past thirty-five years Rabbi Eliemelech Zweibel has been the teacher and spiritual mentor of a generation of Chabad Rabbis, at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ. He is a major contributor to this generation’s leading works on chassidic philosophy.
Mendy and Shayna (nee Loebenstein) Nagel (Boston, MA)
New Yorkers may get one or more text messages on their cell phones Thursday as part of a test of a new national alert system.
Looking for something to do for Chanukah? CBS’ flagship station rated what it called the top eight holiday celebrations in New York City, and two of the parties featured by reporter Carly Sitzer are among the largest bashes hosted by local Chabad-Lubavitch centers.
Last month, a court in Israel approved the extradition to the United States of Yitzchak Shuchat, a 28-year-old Lubavitcher Hasid, who is wanted by the New York Police Department for the 2008 assault of a black resident of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
JLI uncovers surprising origins of Occupy Wall Street in a post depression movement of the 1930s. To promote their upcoming business ethics course, Money Matters, JLI released a promotional video yesterday that tells the story of Louisiana Governer and U.S. Senator Huey Long who campaigned for presidency on the promise of redistributing the wealth of America’s richest among the poor.
WNYC Radio had Reggae-Rapper Matisyahu on for an interview today, to talk about his new, beardless, look. Although he called this “the biggest transformation of his life,” Matisyahu assured his fans that he is still an observant Jew, and pointed out that the very next morning after removing his beard he went to the Mikvah and Davened Shachris with a Minyan. He said his wife and kids, who are in California, did not yet see him without his facial hair.
Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim around the world will launch a flurry of activities Wednesday night and Thursday to celebrate Yud Tes Kislev — the Chassidic New Year. The date, the 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev on the Jewish calendar, is celebrated as the Rosh HaShanah of Chassidim.
Reminders of an evil empire are on display now at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, and they’re not just related to the Soviet Union.
For most women, heading to the mikvah – the ritual bath that lies at the heart of Jewish family purity laws – does not involve surprise encounters with wild animals, traipsing through three-feet of snow or hacking through a frozen river in subzero temperatures to reach flowing water.
In honor of Yud Tes Kislev, the well-known Chassidus teacher Rabbi Yossi Paltiel presents a powerful Ma’amar of the Alter Rebbe, exploring the inner power of a mitzvah and how it gives the soul the garments it needs to “weather” Paradise.
He was a photographer at Crown Heights chasunas and worked the cash register at his daughter’s grocery on Kingston. He was friendly in a self-effacing way and was friends with my father. His name was Velvel Shildkraut.
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