This Sunday the Lazar family will be completing and dedicating a new Sefer Torah in memory of their grandparents and parents. The siyum will take place between 2:00 and 4:00 at 642 Empire Blvd. and at 4:15 the Tahalucha will leave to 770 Montgomery.
Levi Rose (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Chanah Poltorak (Monsey, NY)
L’Chaim Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a photo of the Rebbe leaving 770 in the winter of 1977.
Simultaneously viewed in over 50 schools across the world, the focus of this segment (cut from a 30 minute children’s Rally) is to teach children that they have within themselves Something Extraordinary. A power waiting to be unleashed which can strengthen their ability to sense G-d’s presence in a very real and tangible way through the power of Tefillah, prayer. Children also are given their mission of the month in the “Charge It” segment.
Crown Heights residents enjoyed their first ever farmers market Thursday as it opened for business in Hamilton Metz Park.
Avi Meer (Morristown, NJ) and Chayke Feiner (Los Angeles, CA)
Choni Shagalow (Crown Heights) and Sarah Nemni (Milan, Italy)
L’Chaim Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Shloimy and Leah Kleinman (West Bloomfield, MI)
Moshe Perelmuter (Long Beach, CA) and Shira Kaplan (Jerusalem, Israel)
Mendy and Rivky Wilansky (Crown Heights)
Shaya and Mushkah (nee Raigorodsky) Lowenstien (Los Angeles, CA)
Tens of thousands of Israelis who are planning to depart in the coming days to visit the burial site of Rav Nachman of Breslov may not get a warm welcome this year. A group of local residents in the Ukraine city of Uman, where the rabbi’s tomb is located, have called on residents to come out to a major protest against their Israeli visitors, demanding that the city ban them.
New billboards went up across New York City on Wednesday night with a message that could have subway riders doing a double-take.
The whirr and snap of a printer is the only sound in a small study room at the Jesse Smith Memorial Library on Tinkham Lane as 23-year-old Rabbi Aryeh Laufer patiently waits for another set of pages to be done so he can feed the printer again. Later, he will bring the pages to be cut and bound to make 100 books.
Hundreds of New Yorkers will band together Sept. 29 to hear the 100 traditional blasts from a ram’s horn in a wholly untraditional way as they unite with fellow Jews for a special Rosh Hashanah moment amidst the surroundings of Central Park.
Rabbi Itche Kadoozy attempts to deliver a Rosh Hashana message. 255 times.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish woman was struck and injured this morning when she attempted to cross the street.
