8th Day Putting Final Touches on New Album!
by Ethan Block
8th Day, Jewish music’s new sound, (Co-founded by brothers Rabbi Shmuely and Bentzi Marcus) are in the final phase of their new album titled “Chasing Prophecy.”
ULY Students Visit Kingston Stores to ‘Clean the Air’
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Talmidim began a new Mivtzah today, ‘Cleaning the Air’! In yesterday’s Hayom Yom the Rebbe writes that everyone must clean the air by learning Torah wherever they go. Students were seen in stores on Kingston where they learned and received a prize and a treat from the store owners.
Crown Heights Beis Medrash Opens
by Rishe Deitsch
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Approximately 200 men attended the grand opening of The Beis Medrash on Motzei Shabbos, which is located at The Crown Condos at 580 Crown Street.
OU CEO Remembers The Rav’s Class on Lekutei Torah
In this week issue of Ami Magazine, the Editor in Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter interviewed OU Kosher’s CEO, Rabbi Menachem Genack, in an article titled A Statesman and A Rabbi. The OU CEO remembered an incident with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichik who was learning with his students the Alter Rebbe’s Lekutei Torah:
Lunar Eclipse Set to Darken Night Sky
NY Daily News
The total lunar eclipse will being after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, and last for more than three hours.
A rare total lunar eclipse is set to darken the night sky on Tuesday.
The celestial event is expected to begin after 1 a.m. EST on Dec. 21, and will continue for more than three hours.
What’s Your Jewish name?
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: We are presenting a video collection from various ‘Sunday Dollars’ when numerous visitors ask the Rebbe to give them a Jewish name. From the weekly video magazine, ‘Living Torah’. Courtesy of JEM.
NY Post
Mark Moody enjoys his usual smoke at his window, where he says cops nabbed him as a suicidal lunatic and carted him off to a psych ward.
What were they smoking?
A pair of blundering cops mistook a downtown man's cigarette break for a suicide attempt, a lawsuit claims.
Cops Take ‘Suicidal’ Window Ledge Smoker to Psych Ward
NY Post
Mark Moody enjoys his usual smoke at his window, where he says cops nabbed him as a suicidal lunatic and carted him off to a psych ward.
What were they smoking?
A pair of blundering cops mistook a downtown man’s cigarette break for a suicide attempt, a lawsuit claims.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two neighbors standing outside their Montgomery Street homes and having a chat became victims of six police officers, who piled out of a van and accused them of drinking in public. The officers demanded their identifications and recorded their information.
Van with 6 Police Officers Harass 2 Jews
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two neighbors standing outside their Montgomery Street homes and having a chat became victims of six police officers, who piled out of a van and accused them of drinking in public. The officers demanded their identifications and recorded their information.
New Engagement!
Eliezer (ben R. Yechezkel) Posner and Chaya Mushka Itkin (Pittsburgh, PA)
L’Chaim Tonight, Sunday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
New Engagement!
Yosef Seigel (Crown Heights) and Sarah Abrahamson (Omaha, NE)
New Engagement!
Nossy Slater (Crown Heights) and Nelly Akuvaev (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Shlomo Knapp (Montreal) and Odelyah Levi (Montreal)
Lechaim Tonight, Sunday at 455 Crown Street
[Between Kingston and Albany Avenues]
Two Cars Broken Into – Airbags Stolen, Friday Night
Illustration Photo.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – Over Shabbos two cars were broken into and their airbags were stolen. Shomrim received reports that the break-ins took place sometime on Friday night on Crown Street.
Navigate the Streams of Cyber-Chassidus
TorahCafé.com is thrilled to announce the launch of a new streaming shiurim series, Chassidus and Coffee, featuring Rabbi Ruvi New of Chabad of East Boca, Florida. The class will be broadcast live on Sunday mornings 10-11 am.
Herbert and Hilda Grunburg, an elderly Jewish couple, appeared recently on the Peoples Court suing a tow company for what they claimed was their car being towed illegally, and that resulted in them having to walk over a mile back home. In the last appearance of a Frum couple appearing on this show, the result was a massive Chilul Hashem.
Video: Elderly Jewish Couple Appear on the People Court
Herbert and Hilda Grunburg, an elderly Jewish couple, appeared recently on the Peoples Court suing a tow company for what they claimed was their car being towed illegally, and that resulted in them having to walk over a mile back home. In the last appearance of a Frum couple appearing on this show, the result was a massive Chilul Hashem.
A Shtetl Divided
by Matthew Shaer
Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn
In the 1860s, when the architect Frederick Law Olmsted arrived in Crow Hill, he found a wasteland of balding farms and graying shale, pimpled by shantytowns and pools of pig excrement. The squalor alarmed Olmsted, and together with his partner, Calvert Vaux, he obtained a commission from the city to design Eastern Parkway, a wide, tree-lined boulevard that eventually connected the brownstones of Park Slope to the tenements of Brownsville and brought a semblance of modernity to the neighborhoods in between.
Dix Hills Locals Toast Jewish Center’s 18 Years
Lou and Beth Ziemba, center, received an award at the Dec. 12 banquet celebrating Rabbi Yaakov and Zoey Saacks’ 18 years directing the Chai Center of Dix Hills, N.Y. (Photo: Levi Stein)
When Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yaakov and Zoey Saacks moved from Brooklyn to the Suffolk County community of Dix Hills, N.Y., their newly-formed Chai Center began in their home. Prayer services took place in their dining room; they ran a Hebrew school from their kitchen.
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