Dress Exchange Helps Alleviate Economic Woes
Recognizing the burden that these tough economic times have put on families and individuals, a number of Crown Heights residents got together and created a Dress Exchange to help alleviate some of it.
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Picture of the Day: What Is Gonna Be on Wheels?
Getting ready to launch, or roll out, their new and original idea, the Great Jewish Big Rig – a project of the Jewish Childrens Museum, put up an ad along the buildings entrance on Eastern Parkway getting people ready for its launch.
JLI Video: Good Eye or Ayin Hara?
Some people view the world through “rose-colored” lenses, seeing everything in a positive light, while others see the world through a grayer lens, seeing doom wherever they look.
Booze Ruse Offends Jews
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A city vodka manufacturer erected a billboard showing a dog in a yarmulke next to the slogan “Christmas quality, Hanukkah pricing” — prompting Jewish groups to demand that the sign come down.
Mishpacha Magazine Profiles Rabbi Fishel Jacobs
Harold Jacobs — Jewish in his heart but not yet in practice — bought a poultry processing factory in Vermont and moved his family out to South Royalton (population 1,100) from Brooklyn when Flip/Philip/Fishel was ten. “Dad’s philosophy was, let the kids grow up in the country and they’ll be healthy.’ It would have been a good plan if I didn’t almost get myself killed in the process,” Rabbi Fishel Jacobs reminisces from his well-appointed study in Kfar Chabad, surrounded by an extensive library and piles of his own titles.
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EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn — This harrowing video shows a crash between two police cars which were both rushing to the same robbery yesterday, injuring six officers.
Two NYPD Cars Collide When Rushing to a Robbery
NY Post
EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn — This harrowing video shows a crash between two police cars which were both rushing to the same robbery yesterday, injuring six officers.
Rabbi Ari Shishler of Johannesburg, South Africa was the guest speaker at Congregation Levi Yitzchak in Los Angeles for Chof Cheshvan. The special event, organised by Rabbi Levi Raichik was intended to attract a more diverse crowd to the Chof Cheshvan celebrations.
LA Tackles the Challenges of ‘Viritual Relationships’
Rabbi Ari Shishler of Johannesburg, South Africa was the guest speaker at Congregation Levi Yitzchak in Los Angeles for Chof Cheshvan. The special event, organised by Rabbi Levi Raichik was intended to attract a more diverse crowd to the Chof Cheshvan celebrations.
As a Bochur who is spending this year learning in 770, I am privileged all year round to immerse myself in the unique atmosphere found in and around 770 and at the Ohel. Now, as we approach the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim, there is a special buzz in the air, with Shluchim arriving from all around the world to recharge their batteries for the upcoming year.
A couple of nights ago a friend of mine and myself were speaking about just this, and the question that came to mind was: What does this all mean to a Bochur like myself?
Op-Ed: What Does the Kinus Mean to Me As a Bochur?
As a Bochur who is spending this year learning in 770, I am privileged all year round to immerse myself in the unique atmosphere found in and around 770 and at the Ohel. Now, as we approach the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim, there is a special buzz in the air, with Shluchim arriving from all around the world to recharge their batteries for the upcoming year.
A couple of nights ago a friend of mine and myself were speaking about just this, and the question that came to mind was: What does this all mean to a Bochur like myself?
New Shluchim Connect to Community Via Mangoes
Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki helps a fellow Jew don Tefilin in Ft. Lauderdale.
Last December, Rabbi Chaim and Chaya Mushka Slavaticki moved to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to open a new Chabad-Lubavitch center.
Baby Girl!
Binyomin and Blumshi (nee Segelman) Dubroff (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Levi and Estie (nee Lieberman) Chanowitz (Sunrise, FL)
London Students Celebrate Green Sabbath
A London Imperial College Student helps cook for green Sabbath.
This past Friday night, 30 students from London’s Imperial College and other universities’ international study abroad programs celebrated an eco-friendly Sabbath with Chabad-Lubavitch of South Kensington.
New Jersey Welcomes New Shluchim
Rabbi Avrohom and Rivky Bergstein have been appointed to be the Rebbe’s Shluchim to Fair Lawn, New Jersey. The Bergstiens will direct the adult education department at Anshei Lubavitch, which is one of the oldest Lubavitch institutions in the world.
Baby Boy!
Shloimie and Devorah Leah (nee Cunin) Chein (Santa Cruz, CA)
2000 at Israeli Expo in Moscow
Representatives of real estate, tourism, health care and hi-tech industries participated at the fourth Israeli Expo in Moscow. The two-day event which opened Sunday morning was sponsored cooperatively by the Jewish Agency in Moscow, the Israeli Embassy, Gordon Rock Investment Company, and the Israeli Moscow Jewish community.
Professor Velvl Greene: Scientist, Activist and Pioneer
By the 1960s, Professor Velvl Greene was already well-known in the fields of public health and microbiology.
Professor Velvl Green, former chair of epidemiology and public health and professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University, and director of its Lord Jakobovitz Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, passed away at the age of 83. A pioneer in the field of hygiene and the development of sanitary standards used in hospitals, at the height of his career, he maintained a scientific and religious dialogue with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. He became a highly regarded lecturer on Torah and its compatibility with science, and also contributed to NASA’s search for extraterrestrial life.
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