The first official Balaboostas.com event, “After the Kallah Class”, took place Thursday evening in the Crown Heights community. It was a lecture on intimacy by psychotherapist, Rivka Sidorsky, LCSW-C. The crowd of 70 women listened on intently, as she spoke about issues and topics that concern married Jewish women.
Levi Friedman (Mill Basin, NY) and Malka Hershkowitz (Ofakim, Israel)
Chabad Chosid Rabbi Shmuel Scharf, who was seriously injured in Nachlat Har Chabad by a rocket launched from Gaza, was released from the hospital on Monday, 12 Kislev. His wife, Mrs. Mira Sharf, HYD, was among three victims of that attack who lost their lives.
Jewish singing sensation Benny Friedman talks about the experience of recording Kumzing Vol. 2.
Hungary’s Jewish community initiated a criminal procedure against a Hungarian far-right politician in that country who recently urged the government to compile a list of Jews who pose a “national security risk.”
R’ Yerachmiel Glazer is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Sheina Leah, OBM, at 510 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Apt. 2A
Shachris: 7:00 AM
Mincha: 1:45 PM
Maariv: 7:00 PM
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
In a wonderful evening celebrating thirty years of Chabad of Curitiba, Brazil, the local Jewish Community was treated to an amazing show – “Dudu Fischer in Concert.”
Chabad Lubavitch of Florida mourned the passing of Dr. Ira S. Barton – Israel Peretz ben Dov, OBM, a strong supporter of Mosdos Chabad in Miami Beach.
CROWN HEIGHTS — Late Monday night a car traveling at a high rate of speed collided with a parked car and force of the impact damaged two others as well. Eyewitnesses saw the driver and a female passenger flee, only to later return with an absurd story.
Levi and Musya (nee Rabiski) Krinsky (Crown Heights)
French police reportedly are investigating fresh acts of vandalism in two Jewish cemeteries and a municipal building. On Monday in Paris, police arrested two men suspected of digging up two corpses at the Pantin cemetery, according to a statement from the municipality.
Technion students Eyal Cohen and Tomer Wassermann from the Mechanical Engineering faculty and Matan Orian and Dvir Dukhan of Industrial Engineering and Management take on the challenge to build a Rube Goldberg machine that lights the Chanukah menorah.
The Turetsky Choir performed at the great Synagogue of Kharkov, Ukraine during celebrations which were held in anticipation of the 100 year anniversary since the Shul was built in 1913.
This morning the Levaya of Los Angeles Shliach Rabbi Menachem Mendel Labkowsky passed in front of 770, where hundreds of Anash and fellow Shluchim had gathered to pay their last respects to their beloved colleague.
CROWN HEIGHTS — OK Kosher Certification recently held its annual Mashgiach Conference at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Over 150 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
When Nicole Drapeau of Montreal slipped on a patch of ice two weeks ago and broke her ankle, she got more than just free medical treatment for her injury. She says she had her faith in mankind restored.
Mumbai’s Jewish community offered prayers at Chabad House on Monday, as they remembered Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were killed in the 2008 militant attacks by Pakistan-based militants.
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