Baby Boy!
Boruch and Zlatie Benjaminson (Morristown, NJ)
New Engagement!
Shneur (ben Ari) Simpson (Crown Heights) and Freida Stock (Trumbull, CT)
The Sinful Aftermath – Clinging To Bad Ideas
Weeping uncontrollably, a distraught mother one day paid a frantic call to a Chassidic Rebbe. “Rebbe,” she exclaimed, “It’s my son; he’s acting really strange; I think he needs a psychiatrist!”
“What’s the matter,” inquired the Rebbe, visibly concerned.
“The matter?” cried the woman, “He’s behaving like a lowlife! He has been seen dancing with gentile women and dining on swine, SWINE! I’m telling you, he went Mishuga.
Baby Boy!
Levi and Sori (nee Zimmerman) Aizen (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Pinny and Gitty Andrusier (Cooper City, FL)
Baby Girl!
Eliyahu Yosef and Rochel Leah (nee Mayteles) Morrison (Cincinnati, OH)
Baby Girl!
Hendel and Bracha Leah (nee Vorst) Weingarten (East Lansing, Michigan)
Baby Boy!
Mendy and Temma (nee Silverstein) Cohen (Bala Cynwyd, PA)
Ignoring Alcohol Abuse in Yeshiva Won’t Make it go Away
BUFFALO, NY, [CHI] — Recent studies have determined that alcohol ranks “most harmful” among a list of 20 drugs, according to an article on the study released by The Lancet Journal last November. Yet in many yeshivos Adar ushers in a month of fabrengens and of course L’chaim! Many young bochurim will be exposed to tremendous peer pressure to take a sip, and unwittingly start on the road to a terrible addiction. In Buffalo, Mesivta Menachem has taken preemptive action.
Cleveland’s Friendship Circle Cafe
Friendship Circle of Cleveland held their first annual Café night, organized by the Teen Scene girl volunteers.
Weekly Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a photo of the Rebbe arriving at 770, with special thanks to the Garelik family archive.
Baby Girl!
Shmuly and Bella (nee Gopin) Levy (Crown Heights)
Set to break ground March 13, a Long Island Jewish center is undertaking a massive expansion project, doubling the size of its current location to better serve a vibrant and rapidly-growing Jewish community.
After Groundbreaking, LI Center to Double in Size
Set to break ground March 13, a Long Island Jewish center is undertaking a massive expansion project, doubling the size of its current location to better serve a vibrant and rapidly-growing Jewish community.
Another day and a new character shows up at 770. A reader sent us in this video, taken with his mobile phone, of the latest one to show up and preach his new message – the end of the Talmud. Police got involved and sent the man, who was dressed in a blue robe and cotton tzitzis, on his way after a crowd gathered and got loud.
Video: Deranged Man Entertains Crowd by 770
Another day and a new character shows up at 770. A reader sent us in this video, taken with his mobile phone, of the latest one to show up and preach his new message – the end of the Talmud. Police got involved and sent the man, who was dressed in a blue robe and cotton tzitzis, on his way after a crowd gathered and got loud.
Mr. Leo Weissman, a long-time resident of Crown Heights, has passed away.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mr. Leo Weissman OBM
Mr. Leo Weissman, a long-time resident of Crown Heights, has passed away.
‘Trailblazing’ Chaplain Leaves his Mark on Canadian Armed Forces
OTTAWA – A rabbi, a minister and an imam walk into a barracks… The Canadian Armed Forces had hundreds of Christian chaplains, the Maltese Cross in its symbol, and “Onward Christian Soldiers” as the official March Past, but in 2007, after Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn became the first rabbi to serve as a chaplain since World War II, things began to change.
