Compass Magazine Releases 2nd Issue
A few weeks ago, the acclaimed Chabad House Compass Magazine released its second issue to the family of shluchim. The new edition created quite a buzz and was received with much appreciation and interest.
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Wednesday: Rally at the Ohel!
There will be a Rally at the Ohel Wednesday, December 22nd, for all children ages 5 through 12. buses will leave from 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm.
NY Post
Police are looking for the vandals who toppled gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn, authorities said yesterday.
Vandals Topple Gravestone in Bklyn Jewish Cemetery
NY Post
Police are looking for the vandals who toppled gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn, authorities said yesterday.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Mrs. Sara Bluma Stern OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Sara Bluma bas Yechiel Mordechai Hacohen Stern OBM, wife of R. Chaim OBM.
She is survived by her children Ruth Pand (Jerusalem), Rina Boyvier (Jerusalem), R. Shmuel Stern (Rechovot), and R. Mordechai Stern (Crown Heights).
L’Chaim – Nazdarovya!
“In Odessa we closed the shutters when my grandfather lit the Menorah. Now, we celebrate in public, both indoors and outdoors”, said Rima Mazurovsky about the series of Chanukah events by Project Neshama – Chabad Lubavitch of Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
8th Day Putting Final Touches on New Album!
by Ethan Block
8th Day, Jewish music’s new sound, (Co-founded by brothers Rabbi Shmuely and Bentzi Marcus) are in the final phase of their new album titled “Chasing Prophecy.”
ULY Students Visit Kingston Stores to ‘Clean the Air’
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Talmidim began a new Mivtzah today, ‘Cleaning the Air’! In yesterday’s Hayom Yom the Rebbe writes that everyone must clean the air by learning Torah wherever they go. Students were seen in stores on Kingston where they learned and received a prize and a treat from the store owners.
Crown Heights Beis Medrash Opens
by Rishe Deitsch
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Approximately 200 men attended the grand opening of The Beis Medrash on Motzei Shabbos, which is located at The Crown Condos at 580 Crown Street.
OU CEO Remembers The Rav’s Class on Lekutei Torah
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:
Lunar Eclipse Set to Darken Night Sky
NY Daily News
The total lunar eclipse will being after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, and last for more than three hours.
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.
What’s Your Jewish name?
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.
NY Post
Mark Moody enjoys his usual smoke at his window, where he says cops nabbed him as a suicidal lunatic and carted him off to a psych ward.
What were they smoking?
A pair of blundering cops mistook a downtown man's cigarette break for a suicide attempt, a lawsuit claims.
Cops Take ‘Suicidal’ Window Ledge Smoker to Psych Ward
NY Post
Mark Moody enjoys his usual smoke at his window, where he says cops nabbed him as a suicidal lunatic and carted him off to a psych ward.
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.
Van with 6 Police Officers Harass 2 Jews
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.
New Engagement!
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]
New Engagement!
Yosef Seigel (Crown Heights) and Sarah Abrahamson (Omaha, NE)
New Engagement!
Nossy Slater (Crown Heights) and Nelly Akuvaev (Crown Heights)
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