Winds of uncertainty are blowing across the globe. A tsunami in Japan, renewed terrorist attacks in Israel, a middle-east – from Egypt to Libya, Syria to Yemen – in crisis. And the future remains unsure. Will the sun shine again? Will stability re-emerge after the storm dies down?
Michoel Gutleizer (Crown Heights) and Libby Spalter (N. Miami Beach, FL)
L’Chaim Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Shmuel Sholom and Faige Rivka (nee Borenstein) Serebryanski (New Windsor, NY)
October 1973. On Yom Kippur Egypt launched a sudden attack on Israel, which by the skin of its teeth pushed back the enemy force and potential destruction. In the aftermath a doctor from Long Beach, California, asks: Why did this have to happen? Had Israel given back the lands, as promised after the Six Day War, could the Yom Kippur War have been averted?
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Avrohom Crawford, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
He is survived by his wife Suri, and his children.
Rabbi Chaim Miller, author of the Award winning Kol Menachem Haggadah, shares some unique and profound insights into the Haggadah in a fascinating new Shiur.
Tune into TorahCafé.com’s live series, Chassidus and Coffee, featuring Rabbi Ruvi New of Chabad of East Boca, Florida. This week he will continue the discussion about how we can relate to Hashem as more than just a distant overseer.
Shabbat comes once a week here in Tokyo just like anywhere else but because of time zones and the international date line it comes “earlier” than in most Jewish communities. When we are lighting our candles, most Jews in the world are still asleep or maybe enjoying their breakfast. Tokyo is not the easiest place to be Jewish. You cant get much kosher food at the super markets and it is not always easy to live within walking distance of a shul.
Facebook and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg are being sued for more than $1 billion over a controversial page on the social networking site that called for violence against Jews.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Less then an hour before Shabbos, a van with two girls collided with a car service cab on Lincoln Place, holding the two there up to minutes before Shabbos.
Over 180 people participated Sunday in welcoming a new Torah in Haarlem, Holland.
Pittsburgh Jewish Day Schools – a consortium representing the Pennsylvania city’s Community Day School, Hillel Academy and the Chabad-Lubavitch run Yeshiva Schools – announced an unprecedented initiative to attract new students: Tuition for the first year’s on them.
Sunday night, 21 Adar Sheni, Chabad of Weston hosted a Gala Dinner celebrating its 15th anniversary. 250 guests enjoyed a very elegant, festive evening with Guest speaker Rabbi Yossi Jacobson and Yisroel Amar who entertained the crowd with his gifted voice. Tears were brought to many eyes as he sang such beautiful heartfelt songs that moved the heart and stirred emotions.
Chaim Dovid and Rivky (nee Wachtel) Jenkelowitz
1058 Lincoln Pl [Between Kingston and Albany Avenue]
Moshe and Mimi (nee Notik) Hecht
Cong. Ahavas Yisroel, 1349 President St [Between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenue]
Shaul and Esther Baila (nee Hecht) Goldman
860 Eastern Pkwy [Between Kingston and Albany Avenue]
Yossi and Rivki Cheruff
1511 Union St [between Kingston and Albany Avenue]
Sholomke and Chani (nee Posner) Gansburg
Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St [Between Albany and Troy Avenue]
Leible and Mushky Ezagui
738 Empire Blvd [between Albany and Troy Avenue]
Mendel and Shterna Sarah (nee Wilansky) Shemtov
1373 Carroll St [between Kingston and Albany Avenue]
Pinchos and Devorah Leah Movsikov
Hadar Hatorah, 824 Eastern Pkwy [Between Kingston and Albany Avenue]
Mayer and Henya Preger
861 Woodmere Place, Woodmere, NY
Mendele and Chana Raizel Sossonko
1207 Lenox Ave Miami Beach, FL
Nosson and Chayale Potash
423 10th Ave. S. Francisco, CA
In time for the fast-approaching holiday of Passover, Moscow’s largest prison opened the capital’s first-ever jail-based synagogue.
Zachary Shporer, 18, from Charlotte, NC, was diagnosed with leukemia on March 1. Two weeks later, all one hundred and fifty students and faculty of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, where Zachary is a student, did a mitzvah in his honor.
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