OAK PARK, CA — Just how much an Oak Park synagogue in a residential neighborhood can grow its occupancy will be the subject of mediation meetings between temple leaders, neighbors and the county.
In Tuesday’s WSJ, I wrote about how small technology firms—from providers of audio/visual expertise to website-development services—are finding that houses of worship can be a lucrative market. But small businesses in industries besides technology can also benefit by focusing their promotional efforts on religious congregations.
Leibel Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Esty Wineberg (Detroit)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Mendy Majesky (Crown Heights) and Sheina Hecht (Brentwood)
Bnos Menachem, 739 East New York Ave [between Albany and Troy]
Shua and Henna (nee Glick) Laufer (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Sara (nee Dorfman) Bernath (Montreal, Canada)
Menachem (ben Yanky) Korf (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka (bas Yosef Yitzchok) Gutnick (Melbourne, Australia)
This year, the annual Kinus Hamechanchim will take place on Sunday Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, July 3rd and Monday Tammuz, July 4th. The Kinus Hamechanchos will take place on Monday 23 Tammuz, July 25th and Tuesday 24 Tammuz, July 26th.
BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn city councilman wants to put banks on the hook for maintaining the homes they foreclose on in New York.
VENTURA, CA — Imagine 25 people excited to see garbage. So it was for the CHEVRE, Conejo Hikers Enjoying Ventura’s Rural Environs, members from Oak Park Chabad, as they walked and cleaned the Medea Creek Trail on Jan. 23 in honor of Jewish Arbor Day (Tu B’Shevat).
Mendy (ben R’ Chaim) Majesky (Crown Heights) and Sheina (bas R’ Boruch) Hecht (Brentwood, CA)
L’Chaim Wednesday night at Bnos Menachem
739 East New York Ave [between Albany and Troy Ave]
NEW YORK — New York City and New Jersey need a new bridge, but money is tight. So officials are doing something they’ve never done before: They’re getting a private company to build one, then buying it a little at a time.
CONGO — Chabad of Central Africa will be sending full-time, permanent representatives to Nairobi, Kenya, and Lagos, Nigeria under the auspices of Rabbi Shlomo Bentolila, Chabad’s representative to the region.
After a hugely successful whirlwind trip in Montreal, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team is back on its feet and has already conducted some crucial interviews in NY. In addition, My Encounter also has a team in Israel conducting interviews, averaging four interviews every week.
Leibel Bronstein (Crown Heights) and Esty Wineberg (Detroit MI)
L’Chaim Wednesday Night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Uri Shinsky spends his weekends counseling at-risk youth at a rural campsite in Colorado, but that doesn’t mean he’s deprived of a home-cooked Shabbat meal each week.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A fire which burned for over 2 hours completely decimated a Laundromat, sending plumes of smoke covering Crown Heights with the acrid smell.
Shmuel Chitrik (Tzfat, Israel) and Batya Margolin (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
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