Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway’s Auction took place Sunday in Crown Heights with event planner Heshy J of Scoop & Co. giving a presentation. “And the winners are… the hundreds of people who supported the learning of our dear talmidim” said Rabbi Sholom Avtzon.
Craig Nassi is looking forward to spending next week with a very special group of visitors. Nassi, who lives on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, will be helping host a group of injured Israeli veterans and victims of terror touring the East Coast on a trip organized by the Chabad-Lubavitch Israel Center of the Upper East Side and the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
Yehoshua Durkin (Las Vegas, NV) and Dini Seigel (Monsey, NY)
Professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the world’s most famous criminal defense lawyers, wrote the following op-ed in the prestigious National Law Journal together with his colleague Ronald Rotunda explaining why Sholom Rubashkin deserves to have his appeal heard before the United States Supreme Court. Dershowitz says an overzealous Department of Justice and a judge who was essentially on prosecution team lead to Rubashkin’s 27-year sentence in Federal prison:
Marking 57 years since the establishment of Tzeirei Agudas Chabad in 5715, New York area Shluchim and the Vaad gathered for Kinus Hisorrerus and Farbrengen, which took place on 2 Iyar – ‘Tiferesh SheBitiferes’ – and was dedicated in memory of R. Dovid Raskin, OBM.
Last month a letter was sent to all Lubavitcher Yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel, printed on the Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva stationary and signed by Mashgiach Rabbi Gedalia Bluming in the name of the hanhala. Rabbi Bluming requested that all yeshivas urgently send a representative to a special meeting in the Yeshiva offices in 770.
There are times when I wonder aloud what has happened to our moral compass and way of thinking.
After hearing the news that former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach, Bernie Fine, was hired Thursday as a consultant to management with the Maccabi “Bazan” Haifa basketball team, it’s, again, one of those times.
Eli Gerstner and the Yeshiva Boys Choir perform this song without music for your Sefirah days listening enjoyment!
It’s 3:30, the bell rings. All the children in the hall are running to get out. It’s the end of the school year and summer holidays are about to begin. Waiting outside, all the children are eager to get home. One boy is waiting quietly for his father to pick him up. Slowly, all his friends leave. A strange man approaches the young boy, “Hey Shmulli! Your father is stuck at work, so he asked me to pick you up.”
Ari Abramowitz (Monsey, NY) and Rochel Shira (bas R’ Yaakov) Horowitz (Crown Heights)
At first glance one sees no connection between Judaism and hockey. However, if you’ve been following the NHL’s Florida Panthers incredible run to the playoffs this season, you’ve come to realize that the two can get along just fine.
US President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. An official with the US Agency for International Development said Saturday that the money had been restored.
Levi Yitzchok Katz (Crown Heights) and Chaya Cohen (Montreal, Canada)
Zev and Leah (nee Lipskier) Sandman (New Haven, CT)
Keeping kosher at Arizona State University has been a struggle for graduate student Sivan Markowitz. Until the recent improvements to kosher offerings on campus, which were instituted about a month ago, she had limited options.
PBS aired this 7 minute video on their Religion and Ethics program profiling the world famous Talmudic scholar and Lubavitcher Chossid Rabbi Adin (Even Yisroel) Steinsaltz.
Melly and Eidel Pinson (Crown Heights)
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