Rabbi Sholom Goldstein, Principal of the Mechina division of Oholei Torah, greeted the many parents as they entered the Gutnick Ballroom in anticipation for the graduation ceremony of close to 80 students.
Arele and Mushka Teleshevsky (Los Angeles, CA)
The sea of bearded men in black frock coats and fedoras, lifting their voices in ancient Hebrew chants, was the first hint that this was no ordinary South Carolina wedding.
After many years of conflict with its neighbors, and the disparaging discontent it has garnered within the international community, Israel is about to set out for another battle, of sorts, in the forthcoming months.
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Chassidim dancing joyously. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
Yeshivas YNS of NJ celebrated its first ever Mesivta High School graduation. Six bochurim walked into the hall to the tune of Ani Ma’amin, and in front of everyone present they became the first graduating class of the yeshiva.
Supporters of JEM gathered last night for the opening of a gallery of the photos of Yossi Melamed, named “770 through Yossi’s lens.” The gallery is open to the public at no charge from 27 Sivan (June 17) until 11 Tammuz (July 1).
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman wrote an op-ed where he says that, although he doesn’t agree with Agudah’s stance that cases of child abuse need rabbinical permission to be brought to the authorities, he also doesn’t agree with Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes‘ recent move that would make rabbis mandated reporters of such crimes.
Students and faculty members of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kiryat Gat, Israel pose for a year-end group portrait outside their Yeshiva’s building. Seated in the front row from left to right: Rabbi Yonah Yakobovitch, magid shiur b’niglah; Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Rosh Yeshiva; Rabbi Zusha Alperowits, mashpia and magid shiur b’chasidus.
Rabbi Shlomo Dov Zalmanov and his wife, Chaya Mushka (nee Eidelman) will be moving to Budapest, Hungary to lend their hands to the many activities of Chabad in the city.
Shlomo Bogart (Sharon, MA) and Chana Rosa Petrikovsky (Great Neck, NY)
Eshel, 272 Kingston Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
Mendel Schtroks (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas R’ Dovid Aryeh) Greenwald (Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Eli Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Tova Wilmovsky (Crown Heights)
Lubavitch Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Chaim and Fraidy (nee Raskin) Litvin (Louisville, KY)
Pini and Dini (nee Raskin) Foreman (Los Angeles, CA)
Moshe and Mushka (nee Gershovitz) Rubin (Crown Heights)
The International School for Holocaust Studies, a division of Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, is hosting a conference on Holocaust education in Jerusalem on June 18th through June 20th.
“How does she do it?” That’s the question most people ask about Dinie Mangel, wife of Chabad Rabbi Mendy Mangel, mother of eight, educator, administrator, manager of the Chabad’s mikvah and—well, human dynamo.
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