New York has been named America’s rudest city in a survey by Time + Leisure magazine. But the article said The Big Apple was also America’s most diverse city, which could explain some of the unfriendliness.
The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, spent last Shabbos at the Chabad House in Palm Springs, California. The following are photos of his Melave Malka “tisch” on Motzei Shabbos.
Thousands of people gathered this past weekend at the gravesite in Haditch, Ukraine, of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder and father of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic group which became a worldwide phenomenon affecting the lives of millions and known to almost every Jew, on the 199th anniversary of his death.
Eli Tsvik (Hillside, NJ) and Rachel Schechter (Miami Beach, FL)
L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at 822 Empire blvd.
[between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Thousands of letters that people wrote to the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rebbe, from the 1930s in Poland to after the war in New York and onward, were found in the Rebbe’s Head Secretary, Rabbi Nissin Mindel‘s possession after his passing.
Mayer and Chanie (nee Kanelsky) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
Crown Heights [CHI] — Early Friday morning, January 20, 2012 the Crown Heights Community Council offices, located at 387 Kingston Ave., were broken into. A police report was filed that day.
There are literally hundreds of girls and boys of all ages looking to get married in Crown Heights today, so why the shidduch crisis?
Michoel and Mishi Harari (Crown Heights)
Atlanta, GA [CHI] — A column that was recently published in the Atlanta Jewish Times caused an uproar in the American media; the author, Andrew Adler, listed the assassination of President Obama as a possible solution to the standoff between Israel and Iran. Media pundits were up in arms, Jewish groups were quick to denounce the paper and even the Secret Service got involved. But there was another unfortunate misunderstanding regarding the ill-conceived article: the notion that the paper is affiliated with the Chabad movement.
A recent gathering during the induction of new Hamburg Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Bistritzky, brought together 24 Shluchim from fourteen German cities to discuss the future for Chabad in Germany. Also present was Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who has been involved in German Jewish life for more than 30 years and helped establish many of the Chabad Houses there.
The British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, and the British Ambassador to Jordan, Peter Millett, visited Kfar Chabad this week.
Newt Gingrich has stormed to an upset victory over Mitt Romney in the South Carolina GOP primary with a pair of strong debate performances that most voters said was important to their choice.
Zevi and Devorah Leah (nee Cohen) Weinberg (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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