King of Jewish music Mordechai Ben David sings a medley of his English classics at a concert in Brooklyn College in 1986, with music by Moshe Laufer.
Mendy (ben Yosef Yitzchok Yehoshua) Hecht (Beit Shemesh – Melbourne) and Chaya Mushka (ben Aharon Yosef) Vogel (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Over 500 men and women packed in to the Jewish Childrens Museum this past Motzai Shabbos, to enjoy a glass of wine along with a hot buffet, as well as hearing lectures from renowned experts in the cardiovascular field.
In a series of statements issued over the weekend, the Catholic League distanced itself from the edict issued by the Beth Din of Crown Heights, warning residents against bringing “to any media outlet, information about any resident that could, if publicized, lead to an investigation or intensified prosecution by any law-enforcement agency”.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: In honor of “Didan Notzach” We are presenting a short video clip from 5 Tevet 5752, the Fifth anniversary of the US District Court’s verdict ordering the return of books from the Previous Rebbe’s library in 770.
Levi and Nechama Dina (nee Cohen) Pevzner (Beitar Illit, Israel)
Moti and Shainy (nee Altein) Rosenfeld (Bogota, Colombia)
Moshe and Sheva (nee Lipsker) Sputz (Crown Heights)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Bochur was stopped, this Motzai Shabbos, by a van with 7 cops for riding his bicycle on a sidewalk, and when police asked for his identification he explained that Shabbos had just ended and he did not have it. Instead of understanding, the officers threatened to arrest him.
“Gelt” was alive and well this Chanukah down under, with Lipa Schmeltzer at Melbourne’s Friendship Circle’s exclusive concert for Friendship Circle’s participants, volunteers and Families.
DALLAS, TX — The flames from the menorah in the West Village illuminated Uptown on the second night of Chanukah last week. Hundreds of people, from children to senior citizens, ate latkes, sang songs and danced the night away.
In the ultra-orthodox community, conformity is a way of life.
That is why a series of startling edicts from their leading rabbis are hardly controversial at all.
A debate on free speech is rippling through the Lubavitcher Hasidic community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Last week, the rabbinical court known as the Beth Din of Crown Heights ordered members of the Lubavitcher community not to speak to the police or the news media on a range of issues related to crime.
Westchester County’s government officials were treated to a festive Chanukah celebration on the fifth day of Chanukah, as the seven Chabad Lubavitch Shluchim to Westchester County New York visited the headquarters of Westchester County government offices bringing the joy and inspiration of Chanukah in the spirit of Pirsumei Nissa to the highest levels of county government.
On the eighth night of Chanuka the Minnesota Timberwolves held their annual Jewish Heritage Night in conjunction with the local Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the United Jewish Fund and Council of St. Paul.
Cheder at the Ohel’s 5th grade created a Chanukah carnival for the whole school. The students made creative games and booths for the other boys to enjoy, and it was a smashing hit!
