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Chabad House Opening in Brazilian Capital
Jewish infrastructure in Brazil continues to expand, as Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Leib and Sara Rojtenberg, and their daughter Chana, settle in to their new home in the capital city of Brasilia.
On Sunday January 30, 2011, at Chovevei Torah on Eastern Parkway, well over 150 Crown Heights residents attended the Know-Your-Rights seminar. The seminar was organized by Brooklyn college student Yosef Bergovoy and law graduate Eliyahu Federman. The presenters included Federman, Attorney Norman Siegel and Earl Ward, District Attorney counsel Lance P. Ogiste along with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams. Community members found the presentation informative, empowering and inspiring.
Healthy Attendance at Know Your Rights Seminar
On Sunday January 30, 2011, at Chovevei Torah on Eastern Parkway, well over 150 Crown Heights residents attended the Know-Your-Rights seminar. The seminar was organized by Brooklyn college student Yosef Bergovoy and law graduate Eliyahu Federman. The presenters included Federman, Attorney Norman Siegel and Earl Ward, District Attorney counsel Lance P. Ogiste along with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams. Community members found the presentation informative, empowering and inspiring.
CHAMPION, NY — The giant snowman just off of Route 126 in the Town of Champion is back, and this year, he's bigger than ever. Vern Scoville's 35-foot snowman is slowing traffic once again this year. This time around Frosty got a bit of a makeover. Instead of paper, the snowman is sporting a hat made from an old pool.
Video: Not Your Average Snowman…
CHAMPION, NY — The giant snowman just off of Route 126 in the Town of Champion is back, and this year, he’s bigger than ever. Vern Scoville’s 35-foot snowman is slowing traffic once again this year. This time around Frosty got a bit of a makeover. Instead of paper, the snowman is sporting a hat made from an old pool.
New Engagement!
Shloime Denburg (Coral Springs, FL) and Margie (bas Reb Motel) Caplan (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Nachi (ben Yosef (Joe) ) Rabin (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Gitty (bas Leibish) Brafman (Crown Heights)
Selfish Parking Makes Driving in CH Impossible
A typical trip from the parking lot of Beis Rivkah on Crown Street to Carroll and Troy should take no longer then 5 minutes, but thanks to inconsiderate motorists along with construction projects around our neighborhood that trip took over 20 minutes.
NYT Op-Ed: When Speed Compromises Credibility
NPR was reporting definitively that Representative Gabrielle Giffords had been shot dead, but The Associated Press was holding off. The lines into the A.P. offices, recalled A.P.’s executive editor, Kathleen Carroll, were buzzing with complaints: where was The A.P. on this story? How could it let NPR beat it?
Meanwhile, the lines into the New York Times offices were hot as well, said Greg Brock, senior editor/standards: where was The Times on this story?
New Engagement!
Aryeh Leib Ehrlich (Hewlett, NY) and Meira Finkelstein (Los Angelos, CA)
L’Chaim Motzai Shabbos at 1081 Channel Dr Hewlett, NY
RSVP for a ride: jepita@aol.com
Ovadia Yosef: Jews may not say ‘Oh My G-d’
ISRAEL — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef expanded on the Biblical commandment “Thou shalt not take God’s name in vain” on Monday, declaring that Jews may not do so in other languages as well.
Volume of Letters Reveals Details of Rebbe’s Pre-World War II Years
A new volume of correspondence belonging to the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, sheds new light on the Berlin and Paris lives of his daughter and the son-in-law who would succeed him, particularly the increasing push by the Jewish leader for his son-in-law to assume ever more vital and public roles.
Picture of the Day – A Holocaust Survivors Revenge
Chabad Shliach to Chernigov, Ukraine, Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein put Tefillin on with esteemed Ukrainian Professor Aleksey Brick, a Holocaust survivor, on International Remembrance Day.
Gallery 4: Roll Call and Spontaneous Dancing
Every event has its pinnacle – high point – and for the Shluchos that is when they all get recognized in the annual roll call where each continent, country, state, and city gets an honorary mention. Capping that moment is when the Shluchos join hands and break out in a lively dance.
New Engagement!
Leibel Kudan (Hallandale, FL) and Shaina (bas R Sholom-Ber) Baumgarten (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
New Engagement!
Levi Yitzchok Heidingsfeld (Melbourne, Australia) and Chayeh Mushke Eidelman (Manchester, UK)
Twin Girls!
Levi and Shaina Cohen (Manchester, UK)
