An unlikely group of people got together at the 92nd Street Y to discuss the state of relations between Jewish and African American communities of New York City twenty years after the Crown Heights riots.
Postage stamps aren’t just for mailing. Can one find Torah in pursuit of a hobby?
The Avner Institute presents a unique and newly released letter to a stamp collector, where the Rebbe shows how he not only can connect with Jews of all backgrounds and interests, but can turn these very interests around to teach valuable lessons. With special thanks to Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro of the Nissan Mindel Archives for releasing the letter in honor of his grandson’s Simcha.
Sholom and Esther Laine (Crown Heights)
Dan Hagege (Montreal, Canada) and Melissa belolo (Montreal, Canada)
Lechaim Tonight, 8pm at Friendship Circle Montreal
4585 Bourret, Montréal, QC H3S 1X1, Canada
Manchester, NH — A traditional Hasidic Jewish wedding, possible the first in New Hampshire, took place in the Queen City yesterday, when a young rabbi from Australia married a New Hampshire girl raised in the strict, centuries-old Hasidic tradition.
Sitting on a plane to Melbourne, following a whirlwind 24 hours that had me driving to NY from Montreal Canada, boarding an LA bound plane on to my present location- some 40,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean- at 2:14 AM Sydney time. I look back at the last months and contemplate the journey here, a crazy, but incredible road. My internal clock is all off, so excuse the rambling tone.
Binyomin and Ettel (nee Klein) Ringler (Kingston, PA)
Simcha and Yehudis (nee Katz) Cohen (Crown heights)
Levi and Sarah Touger (Parkland, FL)
Friendship Circle of Ottawa, Canada recently honoured its teen volunteers at a family barbecue in Hampton Park. Friendship Circle was started by Dr. Yosef and Devora Caytak in September of 2006.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Stuck pedals aren’t limited to Toyotas alone, they can happen to city busses too and one family found that out after a one smashed into their car twice while they waited for a red light.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — CrownHeights.info has learned that the contractors doing the rehab work on Kingston Avenue applied for permits to allow them to work throughout Saturday.
It’s official. Last Wednesday at exactly 7:34 pm, the staff at Tzivos Hashem headquarters noticed a little red blip on their screen. It’s indication? The first chayol in Chayolei Tzivos Hashem, Menachem Mendel Shemtov of Riverdale, NY, had reached the “cloud-touching” rank of a Major!
City Councilman James Sanders, who is black, says that he has always had difficulties hailing a cab.
Chaim and Chani Hanoka (Pasadena, CA)
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