The Kinus has always been the highlight of a Shliach’s year. It’s a time when we can connect, meet old chaveirim, and draw chayus for our shlichus. Even more than what we gain at the kinus, is the experience our children, the Yaldie Hashluchim, have.
Eli (Ben R’ Boruch) Raksin (Parkland, FL/Crown Heights) and Chani (Bas R’ Yudke) Edelkopf (Kiryat Malachi, Israel)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Parkway [corner Kingston Ave.]
A passing Crownheights.info reader caught a photo of some repair work being done on a Crown Heights home. Can you identify whose home it is?
Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, which will be celebrating 110 years since it opened its doors, has announced a major gala concert to mark that occasion.
Yossi and Doba (nee Greene) Schlass (Miami Beach, FL)
Dovid Rahmani was a beloved shliach in Yeshivah College of Melbourne until a few months ago, now he’s engaged to Mushka Glick. This sign appeared on the Yeshivah billboard this past Shabbos, congratulating the Young couple on the wonderful news.
Shmuly Wolf (Crown Heights) and Musy Matusof (Madison, WI)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Bais Rivkah
470 Lefferts Ave. [corner Brooklyn Ave.]
Nissim and Chaya (nee Steinmetz) Forma (Crown Heights)
When Darren [name changed] first met Rabbi Dovid Weinbaum, it was at the CTeen Shabbaton last January. As the only representative from his Chabad Center in Hillsborough, NJ, Rabbi Shmaya Krinsky arranged for Darren to join Rabbi Dovid’s group from Montreal.
Kovi and Rivky (nee Danzinger) Raksin (Crown Heights)
The Chabad movement’s emissaries in cities and backwater villages throughout the world are often described as an army. This week I had a rare opportunity to observe their field officers at ease. I was one of a few women reporters invited to the banquet of the International Conference of Shluchim in Brooklyn.
Violence erupts randomly on the streets of Crown Heights. What has remained consistent is the need for children to get out and play.
Several Shluchim and Chabad dignitaries came together last week to pay respects to R’ Dovid Raskin OBM by writing the first letters to a new Sefer Torah being dedicated in his memory.
Chaim Marcus (Los Alamitos, CA) and Pessy Haskelevitch (Crown Heights)
Sholom and Dina (nee Smetana) Simon (Crown Heights)
When Hirshy Minkowicz was growing up in a Hasidic enclave of Brooklyn 30 years ago, he often noticed visitors arriving after dinner to meet with his father. They would withdraw into the study, speak for a time, then part with some confidential agreement having been sealed.
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