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.
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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.
As hundreds of Israel supporters converged on Manchester’s “Big Tent for Israel,” Chabad was on hand to offer participants the opportunity to do a Mitzvah. The Chabad booth, manned by L’Chaim-Chabad Rabbis and volunteers, helped many put on Tefillin or do other Mitzvos to merit the land and people of Israel.
Yaakov (ben Dovid) Astulin (Crown Heights) to Shifra (bas Binyomin Boruch) Gajer (Crown Heights)
There are more synagogues in Jerusalem than Starbucks in Manhattan, still Tully Guralnek is celebrating the opening of Jerusalem’s new Chabad of Rechavia center.
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Rabbi Yitzchok Hecht, director of Chabad of Ulster County (Kingston, NY), attended the birthday celebration of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. While there, he met the governor’s father, former governor Mario Cuomo, and they discussed the special relationship between the elder Mr. Cuomo and the Shliach’s grandfather Rabbi J.J. Hecht OBM.
During the holiday season, we often read inspirational stories that raise our awareness of the plight of the needy and celebrate a spirit of helping the unfortunate who have suffered from hard luck, injury and hurt.
Hundreds of men, young and old, participated in a Chinese auction Motzei Shabbos to benefit the Oholei Torah educational institute. The evening was dedicated in memory of Reb Dovid Malka OBM, who kept the bochurim in Zal and Mesivta well fed throughout the years, and Reb Moshe Abelsky OBM, beloved bus driver for the elementary school over two decades.
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