Baby Girl!
Zev and Itale (nee Simon) Eagle (Crown Heights)
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Info to Be Menachem Avel the Lieberman Family
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.
Baby Girl!
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.
NYC Jewish Women Want to Join Hatzalah
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.
Holon Yeshiva Farbrengs for Rosh Chodesh Kislev
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.
Monday Night L’Chaim!
Yisroel Zev (Ben R’ Leibel) Karp (Crown Heights) and Henny Pruss (Crown Heights)
Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St.
[between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Flashback: First Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim in 1994
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!
First Signs of Chanukah Emerge in Australia
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.
The Making of a Chief Rabbi
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.
Meretz MK Seeks to Ban Chabad from Visiting IDF
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.
New Engagement!
Zalman Sandhaus (Crown Heights) and Mushky (Bas R’ Berel) Lipskier (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Shloime and Tzivyah (nee Kehaty) Greenwald (Crown Heights)
Oldest Director of New Chabad House at Age 77
Young at heart and brimming with enthusiasm, Rabbi Sholom Ber Butman, 77, became the oldest person to open a new Chabad-Lubavitch center with the establishment of the 32nd Chabad House in Tel Aviv.
Baby Girl!
Yitzy and Mimi Goldsmith (Monsey, NY)
Kinus Banquet Photos 10: The Young Shluchim’s Banquet
While the Kinus Hashluchim Banquet was going on in Red Hook, Brooklyn, another banquet – just as important and lively – was going on back in Crown Heights: the banquet of the Tzeirei Hashluchim – the young and future generation of Shluchim.
Kinus Banquet Photos 9: Post Banquet Farbrengen
Channeling the awesome energy from the Banquet, Shluchim along with their lay leaders made their way back to 770 and sat down for the – what has become – traditional Farbrengen.
