Baby Girl!
Hershy and Chanie (nee Levin) Hertzel (Crown Heights)
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Baby Boy!
Maxim (Mordechai Tzvi) and Chana (nee Rose) Cohen (Manchester, UK)
'Tis the season to spread holiday cheer with festive cards - and for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to take a light-hearted swipe at the city's bike lane craze.
Markowitz takes jab at city’s bike lanes in holiday card
‘Tis the season to spread holiday cheer with festive cards – and for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to take a light-hearted swipe at the city’s bike lane craze.
IOWA CITY, Iowa [AP] — A federal judge has ordered members of the family that owned a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa to pay more than $2 million after defaulting on financial agreements with one of their former banks, which has since collapsed.
Judge Orders Rubashkins to Repay $2 Million
IOWA CITY, Iowa [AP] — A federal judge has ordered members of the family that owned a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa to pay more than $2 million after defaulting on financial agreements with one of their former banks, which has since collapsed.
After Crushing His Opponent, Salita Learns Tanya
In Dmitriy Salita’s second fight since his loss to Amir Kahn in England, he came out swinging, and in three short rounds Salita KO’d James Wayka. The sold out crowd at Roseland Ballroom also enjoyed Matisyahu as he sang Dmitriy into the ring with his classic “King Without a Crown”. A reader sent us this photo of Dmitriy in his dressing room after the fight, studying the daily Tanya portion.
6 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Nachman Dov and Rochel (nee Muss) Wichnin
688 Montgomery St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Mendy and Leah (nee Grunblatt) Gurevitch
555 Crown St Apt #3H [Corner of Albany Ave]
Yitzy and Rochy (nee Flint) Kamman
729 Eastern Pkwy [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Yossi and Chaya Cohen
565 Crown Street Apt #4D
Tzvi and Rochie Shuchat
248 York Hill Blvd. Toronto, ON, Canada
Mendel and Dassie Prus (Doylestown, PA)
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a photo of the Rebbe entering the shul for mincha [afternoon prayer] in the winter of 1972. Photo courtesy of the Hayward family.
Baby Boy!
Mendy and Leah (nee Grunblatt) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Yankel and Pessa Rochel (nee Katz) Lipsidge (Crown Heights)
Salita Crushes Wayka in the Big Apple!
NEW YORK — Former world title challenger and crowd favorite Dmitry “Star of David” Salita brutalized game veteran James Wayka en route to a third round stoppage Thursday evening before a packed house at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, NY.
Friday – The Fast of Asarah B’Tevet
The Fast begins at 5:46am and ends at 5:00pm
On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later — on the 17th of Tammuz, 3338 — the city walls were breached, and on the 9th of Av that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people were exiled to Babylonia for 70 years.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.“Come! Everybody gather 'round and I will tell you what is going to happen to you when the end of days will be;”quite a catchy sound byte. Well this is the enticing 'hook' which our forefather said to his twelve great sons. Bet you want to know what the great prophet revealed next! Not what you expected.
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This week's Torah portion, Vayechi, which completes the book of Bereishis, finds Yaakov on his death bed surrounded by his children. Sensing the approach of his final time in this world, Yaakov secures Yosef’s commitment to execute his wishes not to be buried in Egypt, but rather in the land of Israel. Yaakov then summons his twelve sons and prepares to convey his final words:
Blessing in Disguise, The Curse Within The Blessing
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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“Come! Everybody gather ’round and I will tell you what is going to happen to you when the end of days will be;”quite a catchy sound byte. Well this is the enticing ‘hook’ which our forefather said to his twelve great sons. Bet you want to know what the great prophet revealed next! Not what you expected.
This week’s Torah portion, Vayechi, which completes the book of Bereishis, finds Yaakov on his death bed surrounded by his children. Sensing the approach of his final time in this world, Yaakov secures Yosef’s commitment to execute his wishes not to be buried in Egypt, but rather in the land of Israel. Yaakov then summons his twelve sons and prepares to convey his final words:
Rabbi Wilhelm of Online Smicha discuses the fast of the 10th of Teves.
Shiur: Asarah Beteves
Rabbi Wilhelm of Online Smicha discuses the fast of the 10th of Teves.
“OT @ YU” – Spreading Chassidus at Yeshiva University
A quiet revolution has been taking place between two prominent institutions in New York.
Yale Jewish Center Launches Major Expansion Project
Lian Zucker, a sophomore and one of 2,000 Jewish students who attend Yale University, effuses praise for its Chabad House, a center of Jewish life that she describes as a home away from home.
Different and Better at the New Qcumber
Stepping into Qcumber café for lunch today it all seemed much different, wider and much more polished. In an effort to change and improve what was already a great restaurant, the management has made a series of changes to the layout and preparation, which improved the overall experience.
