New Engagement!
Yossel (ben Shaya) Gansbourg (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Weiss (Charlotte, NC)
L’Chaim Monday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
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This Tuesday, Come Make Some Noise!
This Tuesday, March 29, at 7:00 p.m., Bnos Chomesh Academy will present its first ever production entitled MAKE SOME NOISE. Make Some Noise is a musical play written, directed, and performed by the students and staff of Bnos Chomesh.
Photos: More Students Celebrate Siddur Parties
Rabbis Shmuel Benjiman’s and Sholom Rosenzweig’s classes celebrated their siddur party today.
OSLO, Norway — Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz met with leading members of Oslo’s Jewish community at the city’s Chabad House last week, where he spoke about the extreme anti-Israel, anti-Semitic attitudes he encountered in Norway. He urged them to take lessons in Jewish pride and courage from Chabad.
Dershowitz To Norway’s Jews: Take Courage
OSLO, Norway — Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz met with leading members of Oslo’s Jewish community at the city’s Chabad House last week, where he spoke about the extreme anti-Israel, anti-Semitic attitudes he encountered in Norway. He urged them to take lessons in Jewish pride and courage from Chabad.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: In honor of the start of the 30th cycle of the daily study of the Rambam which begins this week, we are presenting a video clip of a farbengen from the 18th of Iyar 5745. The Rebbe speaks about the importance of the daily learning of the Rambam and then making public siyumim.
How Can You Give Nachas to the Rambam in Heaven?
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: In honor of the start of the 30th cycle of the daily study of the Rambam which begins this week, we are presenting a video clip of a farbengen from the 18th of Iyar 5745. The Rebbe speaks about the importance of the daily learning of the Rambam and then making public siyumim.
Fractured Zablo Issues Another Ruling
A clarification was just issued on the clarification from Motzai Shabbos, highlighting a divide within the Zablo. The recent departure of Rabbi Avrohom Rosenberg left the Zablo pitted against themselves, as is being announced with a new letter from Rabbi Boaz Jurkowitz, and cosigned by Rabbi Yosef Hecht.
Chabad of Beijing Dedicates New Center
The central airport of Beijing, China looked more like Ben Gurion Airport on an Erev Yom Tov, with tens of people coming in to participate in the Siyum Sefer Torah and dedication of a new Chabad House in the city.
Jews in Sports: U.S. Soccer – Jews for Jewness
Once in a while I expect the unexpected.
Then there are times when the expected had been a forgotten, kicked-to-the-wayside, but clear as a bell hard-working individual whom with I can relate.
The large spike in the populations of Ramapo's Orthodox and Hasidic communities fueled a townwide increase of more than 16 percent, according to the latest census figures.
Orthodox, Hasidic Populations Fuel Growth in Ramapo
The large spike in the populations of Ramapo’s Orthodox and Hasidic communities fueled a townwide increase of more than 16 percent, according to the latest census figures.
5 Sunday Night Lechaims!
Zalmy Wolff (Crown Heights) to Chaya Inglis (London, England)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Mechy Gancz (Monsey, NY) and Roizy Itzinger (London, UK)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
Yaakov Wilansky (Montreal, Canada) and Chaya Kotlarsky (New City, NY)
Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave]
Levi Shaikevitz (Milan, Italy) and Slava Naparstek (Paris, France)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Eliyahu Eidelman (Paris, France) and Mushky Avtzon (Crown Heights)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
In response to the recent debate about bringing an outsider to lecture Crown Heights on educating our Mechachim, we present the follwoing video of Mrs. Sharfstein talking about a Yechidus in which she asked the Rebbe about the Montessori method of education.
Video: The Rebbe Responds to Outside Educational Methods
In response to the recent debate about bringing an outsider to lecture Crown Heights on educating our Mechachim, we present the follwoing video of Mrs. Sharfstein talking about a Yechidus in which she asked the Rebbe about the Montessori method of education.
Flurry of Overtime Cash for Sanitation Snowmen
The streets were buried in snow, and these guys really cleaned up. Department of Sanitation workers shoveled in the OT in the week after the Christmas blizzard, some earning more than $5,000 in extra pay, according to city records obtained by The Post.
Today: Community Blood Drive
There will be a Ahavas Chesed Blood Drive Today, Sunday March 27th, starting at 3:00pm until 9:00pm at the Ahavas Chesed Center located at 271 Kingston Ave, between Lincoln Place and St Johns Place.
Rabbi Menachem Ofen, a Shliach who is the head of 'Ohr Lachayal' and a volunteer in the 'organization for the soldiers' arranged unprecedented Purim celebrations on Israeli Defense Force bases.
IDF Shliach Celebrates His Personal Miracle
Rabbi Menachem Ofen, a Shliach who is the head of ‘Ohr Lachayal’ and a volunteer in the ‘organization for the soldiers’ arranged unprecedented Purim celebrations on Israeli Defense Force bases.
Op-Ed: Is Rick Lavoie Really the Issue?
Pashkevilim against education guru Rick Lavoie were put out in Crown Heights shuls, prompting a heated debate. Yehuda Adelist wrote a response.
Be A Part of History!
Tonight, Tzivos Hashem will hold their 30th Anniversary celebration concert starring Avraham Fried and Lipa Schmeltzer, along with the finalists of the ‘Jewish Kids Got Talent’ Contest. Few seats remain for the first Jewish event at the historic BAM theater.
Baby Girl!
Dovid and Leah Gittel (nee Steinmetz) Oberlander (Crown Heights)
