On Sunday, 4,000 Shluchim posed for a photograph in front of 770 in a what has become a yearly tradition. This year, Lipa Stauber spent hours working on an extraordinary project: A panoramic photo in which every Shliach can identify and tag his face.
Hundreds of stressed-out kosher couples are set to descend on the first ever “Big Fat Jewish Wedding” expo in Park Slope today to plan their magnificent wedding-day celebrations.
Who can forget? Ahh, the memories – for those who remember last year’s RCCS clip. Well, this year you gotta be in it to win it and split the pot! Click Here to buy tickets in the RCCS auction.
It’s not every day that you get to see over 4000 rabbis get together for one photo, and naturally, many photographers are drawn to this sight. One photographer, David Handschuh, who works for the NY Daily News, was exposed to one of the true missions of Shluchim when Rabbi Raleigh Resnick, Shliach to Pleasanton, CA, asked him “excuse me sir, are you Jewish?” and proceeded to lay Tefillin with him.
New Yorkers were walloped with a 9.6 percent surge in their power bills last year, even though national electricity prices hardly budged, new government data shows.
The IDF confirmed Monday night that at least three Katyusha rockets have exploded in the Western Galilee near the border with Lebanon. No injuries were reported, but several structures sustained damage.
Zev and Itale (nee Simon) Eagle (Crown Heights)
Chaim Meir Lieberman is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, Reb Alter Yissochor Dov OBM, at 724 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.] until Wednesday evening.
Raphael and Sarah (nee Porter) Kats (Saskatoon, Canada)
Most Orthodox Jewish women avoid touching men except direct relatives. They don’t sit next to men on buses or even at weddings. They have separate swimming hours at indoor pools. But for an emergency birth, Orthodox Jewish women will usually turn to the all-male volunteer ambulance corps known as Hatzolah.
This past week, in honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev and the work of the Rebbe’s shluchim worldwide, the bochurim in Yeshivas Chabad in Holon, Israel doubled their efforts on mivtzoim, and reached an unprecedented 547 people who the bochurim assisted with putting on tefillin.
Yisroel Zev (Ben R’ Leibel) Karp (Crown Heights) and Henny Pruss (Crown Heights)
Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St.
[between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
The above photo is from the very first Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim which took place in 1994. Number of children attending the Kinus in 1994: 65; in 2010: 620!
The traditional lighting of the Menorah took place in the NSW State Parliament in Sydney last night. Although the latkes have yet to make their appearance, politicians and State identities were offered platefuls of doughnuts as they entered the function room in Parliament House.
It had become a custom of mine to spend the High Holidays with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. I was grateful to be hosted by the same family year after year, allowing me to relax and focus on my spiritual needs. One year in the late 1960s, I arrived at their home and discovered I’d been given a roommate for the holidays.
MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) on Sunday will introduce a bill aimed at limiting the activities of religious leaders interacting with the IDF and Israel Police.
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