Once again, the Chassidic community of Stamford Hill joined with Anash for a fabrengen/melave malka. This annual event was hosted by Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Liberow, director of the Ohr Hatorah Chassidus Library.
A recent decision banning a menorah display at a key Evergreen community building has sparked a debate over holiday decorations in the small mountain district.
Michael Savage, a conservative talk radio host, had some harsh words for the orthodox Jewish Rabbis that attended the annual Chanukah party at the White House last week together with President Obama.
Schneur and Chaya (nee Ceitlin) Yecheilov (Crown Heights)
In honor of Yud Daled Kislev, the Shluchim Online School celebrated the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding together, from countries around the world. The students focused on the special bond created by the Rebbe and his Chassidim on this special day.
The patriarch Jacob, my namesake (Jacob Shmuel) of whom we have read the past few weeks in the Bible, is the most maligned of all the patriarchs. He is the one whom non-Jews can do without. The Christians claim to have been grafted onto the seed of Abraham and the Muslims make equal claim to the father of Monotheism as the Jews. But Jacob, with his seeming deception of his blind father to gain the firstborn blessing from Esau and his commercial manipulations of his father-in-law Laban, most of whose flock he eventually owned, is treated by anti-Semites as the prototype of the wily, cunning, dishonest Jew who will do anything to profit.
For children whose parents are struggling financially they may not be getting any Chanukah gifts or gelt. Once Ahavas Chesed has launched their annual Chanukah Toy Drive to help mitigate this uncertainty and with your help no child will have a sad Chanukah.
Earlier this summer, the Hasidic community in Borough Park was ripped asunder by one of the most gruesome murders imaginable — a young Jewish boy smothered and disemboweled. The murderer may have been a troubled outcast, but he was still one of their own — a chilling reality check. Now, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has revealed the results of a three-year investigation into child abuse in the borough’s Orthodox Jewish community that is downright seismic: 85 predators arrested and 117 victims identified, according to the Post.
Rabbi Shmuli Brown was initially reticent when he was contacted by the BBC to make a programme about his work as chaplain for Chabad of Liverpool Universities.
Rabbi Tzvi Barnett is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother Chanah Leah, of Blessed Memory, at 327 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Shachris: 7:30
Mincha: 4:20
Maariv: Bizmanah
Please send memories and condolences to: tzvib@verizon.net
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Oholei Torah PTA has released the names of all the lucky winners in its Chinese auction this past Motzei Shabbos and Sunday. The prizes range from $10,000 cash to a pair of ‘Crocs.’ The biggest winners, of course, are the students of Oholei Torah, who will benefit greatly physically and spiritually from the proceeds of this event. Is your name on the list?
Rabbi Yochanan and Rochel Gordon of Crown Heights, together with their infant son Sholom, will IYH soon be moving on Shlichus to the island of Tasmania, off the coast of Australia.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Moshe Goodman of Melbourne, Australia, 63. He was born in Riga, Latvia during the times of communism, and together with his family lived as Lubavitcher Chassidim under the watchful eye of the KGB.
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