With major airports, schools and businesses all closed due to the third major snow storm of the season, hundreds of shluchos boldly packed buses on the main thoroughfare of Eastern Parkway Thursday morning to take them to the Rebbe’s Ohel.
A reader sent in this photo of a very unique snowman, a snow Shlucha!
Bnos Menachem’s Chof Beis Shevat program went on despite the snowstorm with an incredible turnout. Bnos Menachem students and teachers braved the 19 inches of snow to commemorate the Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka with tremendous achdus and palpable spirit.
Despite the heavy snow that covered the streets of Crown Heights, some 200 girls trudged through the snow and gathered at the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s home at 1304 President Street.
It isn’t the amount that makes a storm so bad, but that certainly helps. Crown Heights woke up this morning to well over 12 inches of snow, but this snow is physically heavy which makes it difficult to walk, shovel, plow and drive in.
At this hour children in United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street are finnishing up Shacharis, and are about to start a regular day of learning. Despite the storm classes were mostly full this morning.
One of the inspiring speakers at 1993’s Kinus Hashluchos was Mrs. Esty Cohen (Rubin) OBM, a young Shlucha from Albany who would later build a family and a community in Manchester, England.
Registration for the annual International Kinus Hashluchos has opened Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, with over 500 shluchos already in attendance.
GOSHEN, NY [CHI — On Sunday, January 23, a large crowd gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting and grand opening of Chabad’s new Monroe-Chester Center. The celebration also included a ceremony inaugurating the writing of a brand new Torah scroll.
A week has gone by since an “Installation Ceremony” crowned Rabbi Yosef Braun as the third member of the Crown Height’s Beis Din. The event, the culmination of months of backroom deals, private negotiations and heated public debate, should have brought an end to the discord and fighting that has plagued our community. Yet all was not as it seemed. Rabbi Osdoba, the senior member of the Beis Din, made a simple request – that Rabbi Braun show the two smichas mentioned in the psak. His request unfulfilled, Rabbi Osdoba was absent from the installation.
What happened, and what does all of this mean to us?
It’s 9:00am on a rainy December morning and Rabbi Schneor Nejar is already entering his second meeting of the day. Surrounding the conference table are members of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau who are there to discuss security precautions for the upcoming Kinus Hashluchos at Lubavitch World Headquarters, which is expecting some 2,800 women from over 70 countries.
An estimated 200 students from 12 campuses across Texas and neighboring states will be descending on Texas A&M University next month for the third-annual Grand Texas Intercollegiate Shabbaton. Hosted by the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center, the Feb. 18 to 20 weekend gathering is already generating a groundswell of excitement.
Levi and Shoshana (nee Glickman) Sarfati ( Crown Heights)
Moshe Yitzchak and Chana (nee Mergui) Lieblich (Shluchim to Wilmington NC)
There are no words to describe the recent events our community has been through, amongst them the untimely passing of Hachosson Yossi Kreiman OB”M. In light of this, the bochurim of Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad have composed a song in his memory, which expresses the troubled times we live in, as well as the positive manner in which we respond to our troubles, as we strive to stay strong through these final darkest days of golus.
We live in a world that would be unrecognizable to King Achashverosh; but the newly released the Kol Menachem Megillas Esther, Slager Edition, bridges the gap between Achashverosh and Android, between Persia and iPads, between G-dly intervention and Google.
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