Writing a thumbnail biography on Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky is no small challenge, at least if one follows the rabbi’s own guidelines. By his own definition, the rabbi is not a leader, though he is the primary figure responsible for running the remarkably extensive Chabad-Lubavitch international network of slichim, or emissaries.
At 1:30 p.m. this Wednesday, June 15th, in the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, an appeal will be argued before three judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in one of the most bitterly contested and controversial criminal trials in many years.
Uri Cohen (London/Miami) and Chana Zeidman (Raleigh, NC/Crown Heights)
Lipa Benjaminson (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Gansburg (Coconut Creek, FL)
L’Chaim Tonight at 647 Montgomery Street
Uri Cohen (London/Miami) and Chana Zeidman (Raleigh, NC/Crown Heights)
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
The Bloomberg administration is seeking state approval to install cameras on some of the Sanitation Department’s street cleaners in a pilot program aimed at taking the burden off traffic agents in enforcing alternate-side parking rules.
Yankel and Looly (Nee Majerczyk) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Daniel Dorn (Los Angeles) and Mollie Lorberbaum (Amherst, MA/ Crown Heights)
Baltimore’s former Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Weber is settling in Monsey to open a new Zal with Rabbi Simcha Werner. He’s bringing along a young Mashpia and Magid Shiur.
In Dnepropetrovsk for his grandson’s wedding, Merkos Chairman Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky and guests visited the Menorah Center and other Jewish institutions headed by Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky.
On its own, Brooklyn would be the nation’s fourth largest city. The U.S. Cenus Bureau says there are 2.5 million residents here, but borough officials say the figure is closer to 2.6 million.
As police investigate what they call a “hate crime” at a Jewish center in Boise, Idaho, others in the community are trying to right the wrong.
Yossi and Chanie Chein (Crown Heights)
Levi and Leah (nee Altein) Lipskar (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Levi and Maty (nee Rubinstein) Oirechman (Kiryat Chaim, Israel)
Avremel and Dini (nee Hurwitz) Arnold (Crown Heights)
14
