Jewish.tv: Rabbi Moshe Feller, the chief Chabad emissary to Minnesota, shares personal stories of how legendary Jewish activist, Rabbi JJ Hecht, showed him how “a red-blooded American” could be the model of a passionately committed Jew.
Pictures from the wedding of Aryeh Hoffman (Los Angeles, CA) and Rochel Novoseletsky (Denver, CO) took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
The Ostrozynski family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their dear mother, Mrs. Mindy Ostrozynski OBM at her home, 440 Brooklyn Apt 4B in Crown Heights.
Shacharis 7:30, 8:15 and 9:00 (Sunday no 7:30am minyan).
Mincha 7:30pm (Friday: 2:00pm).
Maariv 8:25pm.
Condolences can be sent to ostro770@hotmail.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim
Abba and Rivky Refson (Queens, NY)
Shua Popper (Coral Springs, FL) and Hindy Melamed (Chicago, IL)
Pinni Goodman (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Tamar Floud (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Shmulik Raices (Postville, IA) and Chayala Golomb (Sheffield, UK)
A Dispute between two rabbis has erupted in Surfers Paradise over who should represent the Chabad-Lubavitch movement on the Gold Coast.
The following is an excerpt from a piece the Daily News ran today on the “off-the-radar” Jewish holiday of Tu-B’av, referring to it as the Jewish equivalent to (lehavdil) Valentines day:
The driver of a New York City Department of Sanitation truck is in stable condition following a frightening accident at a Queens depot.
Magen David Adom (MDA) has declared a mass casualty event and the State of Israel has moved to its highest security alert nationwide as hospitals report that six are dead following terror attacks that struck the country’s southern region midday Thursday.
Almost two hundred women from all over Australia descended upon the Mercure Hotel in the beachside town of Geelong outside Melbourne this past erev Shabbos for the 16th Annual Nshei Chabad convention. There they enjoyed two days of inspiration as well as physical and spiritual regeneration.
As New York City approaches the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, the family of Yankel Rosenbaum is unhappy that Rev. Al Sharpton will participate in a panel discussion about the state of black and Jewish relations.
On a corner of Kingston Avenue, along the row of stores that serves as the center of what is colloquially known as “the Jewish side” of Crown Heights, a young chasidic woman with a sheitel atop her head banters with a middle-aged black man wearing a wool stocking cap.
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