Russia’s Oldest Prison Dedicates Capital’s Only Jail-Based Synagogue
Chabad.org
In time for the fast-approaching holiday of Passover, Moscow’s largest prison opened the capital’s first-ever jail-based synagogue.
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At AHA, Students Do a Mitzvah for a Friend
by Mendy Rimler – Lubavitch.com
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.
Baby Boy!
Mendel and Shterna Sarah (nee Wilansky) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Moishe Hyman (Pittsburgh, PA) and Yehudis Rodal (Milan, Italy)
L’Chaim Sunday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
New Engagement!
Akiva Steinmetz (Detroit, MI) and Esther Malka Loschak (S. Barbara, CA)
Baby Boy!
Sholomke and Chani (nee Posner) Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Shmuel Sholom and Faige Rivka Serebryanski (New Windsor, NY)
Twins! Girls!
Yitzchok and Chanie (nee Schapiro) Itkin (Manhattan, NY)
Baby Girl!
Berel and Chanie Goldman (Gainesville, FL)
by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)
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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:
Merciful Discipline – Accessing The Kohen Within
by Rabbi Yosef Kahanov, Jax, FL
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:
Where Every Bouquet Tells a Story
NY Times
Chani Frankel, co-owner of Mimulo Flowers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
On Friday afternoons, the headquarters of the Chabad sect of Orthodox Judaism comes alive as men in black jackets and hats stream like worker bees in and out of the subterranean entrance on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Those exiting scatter across Crown Heights to prepare for the coming Sabbath — Shabbos in Yiddish — many drawn a block east by the overpowering smell of lilies and the ebullient welcome of Chani Frankel to Mimulo, a flower shop on Albany Avenue.
Photos: Bikur Cholim Mosaic Unveiled
Bikur Cholim of Crown Heightses beautiful mosaic was unveiled today before the 7th grade classes students who created it. The young artists were there excitedly pointed and proudly showing off their part in the creation of the unique display of unity and creativity.
Lubavitcher Jumped by 4 Thugs, Apprehends 1
BROOKLYN [CHI] — A Lubavitcher Bochur was jumped by a group of 4 teenage thugs who attacked and tried to rob him this afternoon. The incident took place near Williamsburg, and ended with the arrest of one of the perpetrators.
A Rabbi and a Klezmer Band Go On A Balkan Journey
Photos by Meir Alfasi
History is being written in the Balkan countries. Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, Shliach to Salonika Greece, who also serves as the chief Rabbi of Albania, has been traveling through the Balkans to enliven the Jewish spirit in the communities where the is no organized kehila.
Construction Site Robbed and Vandalized
A home that was in the midst of being renovated was broken into over the weekend, the thieves tore open the walls and ripped out the copper pipes, as well as the radiators and baseboards.
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