The 24th of Teves, the Yahrzeit of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, is celebrated by–what else? Farbrenging with the Rebbe!
It has been four months since the election of Rabbi Shaya Braun, yet the situation seems to be as unresolved as ever. Many rumors are swirling around the neighborhood as to the cause for delay as the Rosenberg Beis Din continues its deliberations. The following article is an in depth insight into the inner workings of the Beis Din and is a result of weeks of investigative reporting, including interviews with some of the key players as well as a trove of documents which are being published here for the first time.
For the students who frequent the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center at the University of Chicago and Hyde Park, no longer will cramped Shabbat meals and Torah classes in close quarters be the norm. When they return to campus for the beginning of the spring semester next month, they’ll find that all of the center’s programming will take place from a new headquarters in the heart of the urban campus.
Two Los Angeles Yeshivah Bochurim dance on a snow covered Brooklyn-Queens Expressway while waiting for traffic to clear up.
More than 200 flights have been canceled at O’Hare Airport in Chicago after a massive snowstorm barreled into the Mideast Sunday, leaving 1,700 travelers stranded in the airport.
A federal judge has rejected the city’s proposal that grisly anti-smoking ads be posted wherever tobacco is sold.
These garbage men really stink.
Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts — a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Mivtza Hachona for Yud Shevat has been a smashing success in Morristown. A multi faceted mivtza prepared as a joint project of the Vaad Marois Kodesh and the Talmidim Hashluchim, took off a week ago, and ever since Bochurim have been seen using every spare moment to involve themselves in the Mivtza.
At 3:58 a.m. on xmas Day, the National Weather Service upgraded its alert about the snow headed to New York City, issuing a winter storm watch. By 3:55 p.m., it had declared a formal blizzard warning, a rare degree of alarm. But city officials opted not to declare a snow emergency — a significant mobilization that would have, among other things, aided initial snow plowing efforts.
The Jewish community in Montreal, Canada all thurned out to attend the Levaya of Rabbi Menachem Zev Greenglass, who passed away last night.
Until just last week, going off to school has had a dual meaning for Rabbi Meir Muller. He’s been the principal of the Columbia Jewish Day School for the past 18 years. But in the midst of his day-to-day responsibilities, he also pursued an education of his own, turning to the nearby University of South Carolina to take advanced courses in early childhood education. He received his doctorate in the subject on Dec. 13.
Shuey from Mitzvah Boulevard went out for a walk in the streets of Crown Heights, and spoke with some children and neighbors about the storm!
Mendel and Shaina (nee Katzen) Fine (Montreal, Canada)
Koppel and Rivkah (nee Spalter) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Menachem Education Foundation is proud to share that our first Principal Leadership Program for women educators was launched two weeks ago, mid-December of 2010.
CrownHeights.info took a walk down to our local sanitation depot which services our neighborhood, and we were [not] surprised to see over 10 plow trucks just sitting around, and just a few workers milling about. We struck up a conversation with one worker who told us he walked from Millbasin to work today!
