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My Time at a Hasidic Boys’ Camp

The boys and their counselors gather in front of “770” for a memorial service called Gimmel Tammuz: As the Chabad-Lubavitch website puts it: “The anniversary of passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory.

For the better part of July, my wife and I and our two youngest children were at a Hasidic camp for boys. My wife was employed there for the month as a camp nurse, and our oldest boy, aged nine, was there attending camp for the first time at a sleep-away camp. (I did some writing, working on my novel.) It was a good trial to see if he would like it. Actually, we weren’t far from him, but he was still in a bunk with other boys his own age. We were curious and slightly nervous how well he would fit in with the other boys, who were outwardly more religiously observant than our family was.

Chabad of Naperville Expands to New Site

Naperville Sun

Rabbi Mendy Goldstein (right) and his wife, Alta Goldstein, lead the Chabad Jewish Center of Naperville.

Their hearts are big, their reach is long, and they offer an endless supply of hospitality and welcome. Rabbi Mendy Goldstein and his wife, Alta, leaders of the Chabad Jewish Center of Naperville are fulfilling the decree of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as “the Rebbe.”

Roving Rabbis Roam Pinellas to Help Jews Reconnect

Yisrael Bennish, 22, of Oak Park, Mich., and Eli Tsvik, 22, of Hillside, N.J., help Dan Farrell of Clearwater prepare to pray at Farrell’s restaurant in Clearwater.

A man at a gas station eagerly came up to Eli Tsvik one recent afternoon and, pointing to his tattoos, said, “I’m a bad Jew.”

7 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Getzy and Shaina (nee Gopin) Markowitz
883 Montgomery Street [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

Berel and Sara (nee Cohen) Nagel
1368 President St [between Brooklyn and Kingston Ave]

Shmuli and Aviva (nee Bressler) Rosler
770 Lefferts Ave, Apt c4r [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]

Shmuely and Mushky (nee Horowitz) Rosenstein
1318 Carroll St [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]

Yeruchim and Chanie Levilev
786 Montgomery St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Leibel and Mushka Lipskier
305 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Uriel and Dvorky Rivkin
13207 N 52nd St. Tampa, FL 33617

Video: Day 5 of the Crown Heights Riots

CBS, ABC, FOX, WOR and PIX news covered the outbreak of the Crown Heights Riots, or Pogrom, on August 19th 1991. In this six minute clip obtained exclusively by CrownHeights.info we see the reports filed by these reporters and their observation on how the riots unfolded.