Can one celebrate freedom behind bars? Ask the hundreds of kosher consuming prisoners who partook in seders this past Passover holiday.
Avi and Bluma (nee Caytak) Michaan (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Estee (nee Behrman) Popack (Crown Heights)
Shlomo and Rochi Levitansky (Sumy, Ukraine)
Higher temperatures have the possibility of making outdoor activities and non air-conditioned facilities dangerous and uncomfortable. Be mindful of the threats that heat poses, such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Children, the elderly and pets are most at risk.
Days before the holiday of Shavuot, the head of the Yad L’achim organization, Rabbi Sholom Dov Lipschitz, called for more action in promoting Jewish identity among tens of thousands of Jewish schoolchildren in Israel.
With this year’s Chinuch conferences getting closer the Chinuch Office announced a number of the major presenters which will be giving lectures on a host of topics pertaining to education and related subjects.
Nearly 150 Shluchim gathered in Staten Island for the annual conference, hailing from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and New York. The conference opened on Sunday in the Hilton Garden Inn where the Shluchim were greeted by the host Shliach Rabbi Moshe Katzman and his wife.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Shomrim scooter was vandalized last night by an unknown person who spray painted a racial slur against Jews on both side of the vehicle. A passing police captain spotted the incident this morning and called it in.
Laibel Kessler (Montreal, Canada) and Mushkie (bas Kasriel) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
A massive and unprecedented outbreak of bacterial infections linked to contaminated vegetables claimed two more lives in Europe on Tuesday, driving the death toll to 16. The number of sick rose to more than 1,150 people in at least eight nations.
Reb Berel Weiss, noted Chossid and philanthropist passed away today. JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe team had the Zchus of interviewing him at his home in Los Angeles, on 11 Elul, 5768, September 9, 2008 about his encounters with the Rebbe.
Yisroel Kamin (Chicago, IL) and Blima Shaffer (Boston, MA)
Chabad-Lubavitch of Montana held its second annual Montana Jewish Retreat this Memorial Day weekend, with a schedule that included gourmet food, spiritual study sessions and Torah lectures given by sought-after scholars-in-residence, and a plum opportunity to spend the Sabbath outdoors under the state’s famous big sky.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A schoolboy on his way home from school was struck and injured when trying to cross Eastern Parkway, and despite not being Jewish – Hatzalah rushed to the scene and treated him.
Bochurim who teach in the public school Released Time posed for a group picture in front of 770 today.
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