The Dow Jones industrial average surged nearly 339 points Thursday after European leaders agreed on a deal to slash Greece’s debt load and prevent the debt crisis there from engulfing larger countries like Italy. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is close to having its best month since 1974.
Lawyers for a New York man who pleaded guilty Thursday in the first ever federal conviction for illegal organ trafficking say their client performed life-saving services for severely ill people.
Yanky and Chanie (nee Bastomski) Barber (Crown Heights)
Levi (ben Reb Yehoshua) Laine (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (bas Reb Yehoshua) Hecht (Orange, CT)
Reuven Frosburg (Lomita/Agoura Hills, CA) and Rachel Weltman (Houston)
The writings and transcribed lectures of Rabbi Meir Chaim Chaikin, a Talmudic scholar who endured Soviet labor camps for three years as punishment for his clandestine efforts to strengthen Jewish life, have for the first time been published, released under the title Tiferes Ezriel in keeping with the author’s directive shortly before his 1966 passing.
Barry Honig is running as the Republican candidate for mayor of Tenefly, NJ. Members of the local Chabad house run by Rabbi Mordechai Shain know Barry as the man who runs the Tenafly Chabad Free Loan Association, a well known community program that help those in need without making them resort to charity.
Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov penned the following open letter to family and friends in honor of the upcoming 2nd Yahrzeit of their beloved daughter Alta Shula A”H:
Whether you’re on a plane to Israel, in Brooklyn, or spending time in Central Park in New York City, you can’t miss Rabbi Chayim Boruch Alevsky — he’s the one in the “Did you wrap the straps today?” T-shirt. A fun play on words, no doubt, the shirt inspires questions, the occasional thumbs-up, laughs, and, most importantly, the mitzvah of tefillin.
Levi and Devora Leah Fuss (Cincinnati, OH)
Levy Goldberg (Yerres, France) and Chaya Mushka Alfandari (Yerres, France)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at 823 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
Chaim Meir and Rivki (nee Solomon) Steigman (Crown Heights)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of HaRav HaChossid, HaRav HaTomim Rabbi Aaron ben HaRav Yehuda Chitrik OBM of Crown Heights at age 73. Rabbi Chitrik was the director of the editorial board of the Hebrew Department of Vaad Kisvei Kodesh which was responsible for publishing the Chassidus Seforim of the Rebbeim.
He is survived by his dear wife Slava and son Hershey Chitrik (Crown Heights / Miami), and daughter Mrs. Rochel Gross (Crown Heights), as well as his brother Tzvi Hersh Chitrik (Crown Heights), and sisters Mrs. Chaya Lieberman (Belgium) and Mrs. Shaindel Schneerson (Brooklyn). He was predeceased by his son Shmully.
For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.
An intensive building campaign launched five years ago by the Central Shule Chabad in Melbourne, Australia, has achieved close to 90 percent of its goal towards establishing a community center that will benefit not only its congregants, but the entire local Jewish community as well.
The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up. During the next few days, the S’chach will be picked up by the local Sanitation Dept. on the regular garbage pick up days for your block. Please put the S’chach in the area where your regular household garbage is being picked up. If you put your garbage in front of your house, please put your S’chach along the curbside.
For those who own a car but not a driveway or garage, Alternate Side Parking regulations can be quite a burden; none more so than in Crown Heights where it happens four times a week (as opposed to the standard two). At last, for those residents living north of Eastern Parkway in NYC District 8, relief may be on its way.
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