Guma Aguiar, a Brazilian-born billionaire and supporter of many Chabad programs and institutions, is reportedly missing after his empty yacht floated to shore near his Ft. Lauderdale home, with him nowhere to be found.
Levi Swimmer (Sandton, South Africa) and Tany Rosenberg (Miami, FL)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday at 1348 Union St.
[between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
You’ve completed years of organized study, be it yeshiva, seminary or university, and now you’re considering a leap into the business world to bring in some cash. You have two basic choices— work for others or work for yourself. Which, or perhaps how, do you choose?
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Unknown perpetrators attempted to set alight a minivan belonging to a Hatzalah volunteer. Although unsuccessful, the family was left thoroughly shaken and scared.
Dovi Seldowitz (Crown Heights) and Atara Kaye (Sydney, Australia)
“Baruch Shehecheyanu V’kiyemanu V’higiyanu Lizman Hazeh!” exclaimed Principal Dena Gorkin, and Bnos Chomesh’s 3rd graduation was underway. “I am awed,” she continued, “by the fact that this is our 3rd graduating class when just 6 years ago Bnos Chomesh was only a dream!” Yes indeed, it was a dream. And today it is a place where dreams come true.
Internationally renowned Chabad lecturer Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Jacobson celebrated his 40th birthday with friends and family at his home yesterday.
Students in Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s 7th grade got to let loose in a year end trip of paintball shooting. The boys exhibited maturity and had a blast, so much so that the park staff complimented them.
Rabbi Shmulik and Tzippy Freidman will be moving on Shlichus to San Francisco, CA, along with their 2 boys, Moshe and Dovid. They will be working with Rabbi Yosef Langer to further Chabad’s activities in Downtown SF / SOMA, and also to strengthen the Shalom School.
While the rest of the South Florida Jewish community was preparing for the upcoming holiday weekend, Mark Rosenberg, Dovi Katz and Chaim Markowitz were up in Tallahassee. They were there to make a presentation to the commanders of the Police Departments and Highway Patrols of the State of Florida. Their topic? Jewish death.
An Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston won an award in a national online video competition.
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With the bleak central Brooklyn cityscape as a backdrop, you might be surprised what a little color is capable of. Crown Heights, a neighborhood scarred by riots between blacks and Jews in back in 1991, is coming together over something everyone needs — food, WCBS 880′s Alex Silverman reported.
Broken glass is covering several streets in Williamsburg after authorities say nearly a dozen cars were vandalized with a BB gun. In a separate incident, a car driven by Rabbi Aron Kraus of Williamsburg was traveling southbound on the Harlem River Drive from Monsey when an unknown assailant in a dark colored SUV pulled up next to his car and shot out its windows with a pellet gun.
Labie Vail (Crown Heights) and Shaindel Greenberg (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
When Emma Caplan learned about the role Friendship Circle of Fairfield County plays in the lives of special needs children during a class at Chabad Lubavitch of Westport, she decided she had to take part.
New York Boys Choir, under the guidance of renowned producer Yitzy Bald and film producer Danny Finkelman, join forces with Kids of Courage, the famed volunteer organization that turns the dreams of children with serious medical conditions into reality by providing them with medically supervised trips, weekends and other events.
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar (Crown Heights)
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