Educational Institute Oholei Torah, the Flagship school of Chabad Lubavitch, is in its final stages before their 56th Annual Dinner to be held this Sunday, May 15th, 2011, at the Gutnick Ballroom in its Eastern Parkway Campus.
Nechemia Yitzchok Miller (Silver Springs, Maryland) and Yocheved Kreina Lerner (Kensington, Brooklyn)
Mendel and Zelda (nee Gorowitz) Greenbaum (Los Angeles, CA)
A recent string of car break-ins in Brooklyn have not been your typical smash-and-grab jobs. Instead of stereos and other loose valuables, thieves have been snatching airbags right out of steering wheels. The damage is unmistakable. “Driving around without a horn in New York, it’s very difficult,” Crown Heights resident David Katz told CBS 2’s Derricke Dennis.
Forgive the imperfections contained in this column. I am writing it quickly and late at night in order to respond to Chabad feedback I have received the entire day concerning the launch event I staged this past Sunday in Alpine, New Jersey with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor as guest of honor.
It’s not every day that you see a group of men soaring high above the Seattle skyline in a Cessna aircraft donning the Jewish prayer boxes known as tefillin, chanting traditional Chasidic melodies while anxiously prepping for their very first skydiving jump together.
A Hasidic newspaper reportedly has apologized after editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and one other female adviser out of the iconic photo showing President Obama and his security team watching the raid on Usama bin Laden’s compound last weekend.
A torch lighting ceremony in honor of Israel’s independence has ignited a heated argument among Anash in Eretz Hakodesh, since members of Anash (R’ Sh. R. and his young grandson M.) are among those chosen to light a torch. Rabbi R. has accepted and felt proud to represent Chabad and the Rebbe’s Shluchim at the ceremony; However, many Lubavitchers feel this very same ceremony is in direct opposition to the Rebbe’s stance on the 5th of Iyar and all the celebrations in conjunction with that day.
Crown Heights resident Chaim Tovshteyn was among the 10 of nearly 700 employees who participated in the NYX 500, NYSE Euronext’s first-ever global physical activity challenge, ring The Opening Bell.
In 1962, Dr. Yaacov Hanoka was a physics student at Pennsylvania State University. After a group of rabbinic students visited his campus for Shabbos, he was intrigued to learn more about Judaism. His Hillel rabbi arranged a private audience for him with the Rebbe.
Woman and girls all turned out to support United Lubavitcher Yeshivas Auction, and enjoyed a beautiful evening with food, inspiration and entertainment.
A gleaming new building that will serve as the flagship resource center for Chabad-Lubavitch of Be’er Sheva wowed spectators at its unveiling.
A reader sent us in this photo of a Chussid in Boro Park checking out a poster in the window of Shloimy’s Judaica Store, announcing the Lag Baomer Great Parade.
At a ceremony marking 63 years to the independence of Israel, Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, father of Rivky Holtzberg HYD who was murdered in Mumbai, India along with her husband Gabi and three other Jews in their Chabad House was on hand to light the tenth torch.
Yanky and Rivky (nee Cohen) Bruk (Crown Heights)
The Friendship Circle of MetroWest in Livingston, N.J., received a gift of $500,000, effectively guaranteeing the organization’s stability and growth, announced directors Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman and Toba Grossbaum.
