With descriptions of “fantastic retreat” and “life-altering experience”, Chabad Youth Network of Ontario, directed by Rabbi Shmuli Nachlas, has wrapped up its 2010 New York Shabbaton for nearly 100 high-school students from Toronto, join by teens from Chabad of Markham, Chabad of Niagara and Montreal Chai Centre, impacting teens with an unforgettable and inspiring weekend in the Big Apple.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two cars collided in the intersection Kinston Avenue and Empire Boulevard this afternoon.
Shneur Lifshitz (Cincinnati, OH) and Chana Gold (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight Monday at Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
TEL AVIV, Israel [AP] — Israel’s prime minister said Monday that newly leaked U.S. diplomatic memos provide clear proof that the Arab world agrees with his country’s assessment that Iran is the chief danger to the Middle East.
A local [yeshiva] teacher has been hospitalized after a brutal beating, and his three attackers may have targeted him simply because of his religion.
Sunday in Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad of Los Angeles, the Mesivteh had for the second time a father and son learning.
Rabbi Yossi Paltiel spent Shabbos with Chabad of the Valley, as their scholar in residence in honor of Yud Tes/Chof Kislev.
Lessons of Golus and Geula were taught at Cheder at the Ohel for Yud Tes Kislev. Their exciting program had the whole school split into two teams: Team Golus and Team Geula. Each team drew posters and gave a performance.
SAN FRANCISCO — Over the last decade, Rabbi Moshe Trager has performed more than 3,000 circumcisions on Bay Area Jews, he estimates. Mr. Trager, 45, said he sometimes performs as many as five in one day — driving as far as Lake Tahoe to snip a foreskin, helping modern Jews fulfill a commandment they believe was first issued by God to Abraham thousands of years ago.
WORCESTER — There’s a renewed interest in the Chabad movement worldwide, and local Jews involved are putting out the welcome mat to possible followers.
Yossi Cunin (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Chariton (Winnipeg, Canada)
Moshe Dunn (Charlotte, NC) and Tzippy Jaronowski (Monroe, NY)
Avraham and Bayla (nee Altman) Kroll (Baltimore, MD)
Zalman and Esther Skoblo (Crown Heights)
Congrangents of Beis Hamedrash Eliyahu Nochum on Lefferts Avenue got together for a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen. In addition to the Divrei Hisorrerus and Siyum Hatanya the crowd was treated to as special fiddle performance by Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz who played the Daled Bovos, video in the Extended Article.
2 days, 1600 Talmidim, 3400 Seudos, 7 major farbrengens and 100 Shuls and Yeshivas visited, over the days of Yud Tes and Chof Kislev, the walls of Oholei Torah permeated with Niggunim, Farbrengens, and Chassidus. Not withstanding the restraints of Erev Shabbos, the 1600 talmidim in all divisions had a full measure of chassidishkeit and celebration.
Congregants in Ksav Sofer on Empire Boulevard got together on Motzai Shabbos and farbrenged with Rabbi Nissim Mangel in honor of Yud Tes Kislev.
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