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:
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.
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.
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.
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]
Yosef Seigel (Crown Heights) and Sarah Abrahamson (Omaha, NE)
Nossy Slater (Crown Heights) and Nelly Akuvaev (Crown Heights)
Shlomo Knapp (Montreal) and Odelyah Levi (Montreal)
Lechaim Tonight, Sunday at 455 Crown Street
[Between Kingston and Albany Avenues]
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.
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.
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.
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.
This article was prepared in honor of the Yohrtzeit of Rabbi Shmuel Schrage, which takes place on the 11th of Teves, by Rabbi Michoel Seligson.
“Crown Heights of 1964 turned from a nice neighborhood to a soft territory for crime. People were being robbed, hit, stabbed and even murdered. Five crimes were reported every night. People became prisoners in their own homes”, describes Dr. Morris Mindel. The streets emptied after seven in the evening. Owners of stores were afraid to open, too early in the morning. Women stopped participating in communal events. What was most shocking was an attempted attack on a Lubavitcher woman who did not close the door to her house, while her children were playing in the yard.
Chabad is the known leader in Jewish information and education on the web, as highlighted by an independent study conducted by JInsider which termed Chabad.org as the Jewish “Brand leader”.
Hershy and Chanie (nee Levin) Hertzel (Crown Heights)
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