The Friendship Circle of West Hempstead celebrated another year of tremendous accomplishment. Over 120 volunteers were recognized and awarded at the West Hempstead Friendship Circle annual evening of recognition and awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 22. The event was hosted at the POSCH club inside Long Island’s prestigious Garden City Hotel.
On Wednesday, May 30, the 10 finalists from the New York Stock Exchange Big Start-Up competition visited the New York Stock Exchange to ring the Closing Bell. Representing New York among the finalists was Lubavitcher entrepreneur Zalmy Duchman, founder of the Fresh Diet.
Sholom Ber Wircberg (Crown Heights) and Feigy Mandel (Houston, Texas)
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Rabbi Yehudah and Batsheva Glick are moving on Shlichus to Germantown, Maryland, where they will be opening a new Chabad center under the auspices of head Shliach to Maryland Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan. Crownheights.info wishes the new Shluchim much success in all their endeavors.
In a recent meeting between State Comptroller of Israel Micha Lindenstrauss and Rabbi Menachem Kirschenbaum, a file of documents that sheds light on the Rebbe’s involvement in events during the State’s early years was discussed as part of an ongoing project, to be completed soon, concerning the Rebbe’s involvement in major Jewish organizations such as the UJA Federation and American Jewish Congress.
Shmuli Graj (Melbourne, Australia) and Shaina (bas Moshe) Shagalow (Crown Heights)
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After many years of counseling young couples to prepare them for marriage, Rabbi Avrohom Plotkin and Mrs. Goldie Plotkin realized there was a common denominator in all of these couples: they were missing basic training for marriage.
Raphi Steiner (Toronto, Canada) and Mussie Blizinsky (Crown Heights)
Chay and Dina Amar (Golden Beach, FL)
Shimon and Channi (nee Denebeim) Laber (Bal Harbour, FL)
Menachem and Chaya Mushka (nee Gutnick) Korf (Melbourne, Australia)
Yosef and Rivky Abramov (Monsey, NY)
Hundreds of men and women gathered in Beis Rivkah High School in Crown Heights to hear words of inspiration in memory of Rabbi Yitzchok Zirkind, OBM, member of the Crown Heights Beis Din.
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