AUSTRALIA — Today, Monday 3rd of Adar Aleph, the Talmidim Hashluchim of the Yeshiva Gedolah Sydney had the great privilege to be given a shiur on going up and blessing on the Torah by Senior Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Horowitz.
OXFORD, UK — About 500 people across the UK came out to hear former Neo Nazi Pawel – Pinchas Bromson of Warsaw, Poland, tell his dramatic story for the first time in public, organised by Chabad on Campus UK, about his conversion from being a Neo-Nazi, radical hater of foreigners, including Jews and Arabs, until he discovered that he and his wife were themselves Jewish.
WORCESTER, MA — Yeshiva Academy, a small Jewish school that has operated continuously in the city since 1959, owes tens of thousands of dollars to the city and others, has failed to comply with city regulations and faces liens and foreclosures on its properties, among other problems.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two Bochurim were accosted Sunday night, and after calling Shomrim and police for help, a cop got attacked as well.
The Motzei Shabbos segment of the National Teen Shabbaton was a red carpet event on a three-floor yacht filled with activities and inspiration – from havdallah with Rabbi Freundlich from Beijing, to an XBox Kinect video game competition, sushi and paninis made to order, meaningful farbrengens, non-alcoholic mixed drinks, drum circles, lights, music, dancing and touching photo cards made by the teens for Chabad’s Children of Chernobyl.
Its was a hachona for Yud Shvat like non-other – and the winners got a smack’n good paint-ball shooting trip like none-other!
Yossi and Goldie Grossbaum (Folsom, CA)
IRAN — Under a simple brick dome in Hamadan, south of Tehran, are two beautiful wooden tomb-boxes bearing a Hebrew inscription. These are, it is believed, the burial places of Mordechai and Esther, two of Judaism’s great heroes.
For the past several years, Jewish life has been on the uptick in the Florida Gulf Coast town of Bradenton, and with the purchase of a new five-acre property to house its Chabad-Lubavitch center, area families will soon have the space to accommodate their growth.
The New York City Department of Transportation has announced that alternate side parking will go back into effect, Monday, February 7.
Shmuly (ben R Shlomo) Friedman (Crown Heights) and Racheli Goldstein (Toronto, Canada)
L’Chaim Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
Shloime Eisenberg (Boro Park) and Zlatie Malamud (Monsey, NY)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at the Malamud residence
13 Edwin Ln, Monsey, NY
Zalman Schurder (Pretoria, South Africa) and Chaya Lubin (Chicago, IL)
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
It is the day every woman knows they cannot take their husband shopping. The Sunday on your calendar you circle well in advance. The one evening you tell your relatives you will be late to an event due to a “prior engagement.” It’s finally here: Super Bowl Sunday!
With the biggest football event of the year being played in the “everything-is-bigger” state of Texas, this Super Bowl – in Dallas – will undoubtedly be one of the better Bowl games viewed in recent memory.
The Lapine family completed and dedicated a Sefer Torah in memory of their mother Pesya Leah Lapine HYD today.
Scores of men enjoyed a relaxing evening of food, drink and entertainment on Motzai Shabbos in support of Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah, a vital Crown Heights organization which helps Brides and Grooms with their weddings.
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