Designed to further the camaraderie that exists between shluchim and their supporters, the Lay Leadership Conference of the International Kinus Hashluchim will open on Sunday, November 7th with a focus on “Partnering with the Growth of Chabad”.
Ten Yad held their annual Auction Sunday in Crown Heights, with entertainment by French singer Méléha and Kineret.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Three Bochurim were the victims of a group of overzealous cops late last night. They were talking outside an apartment building, when cops stopped them and gave them all a criminal summonses for ‘blocking pedestrian traffic.’
Meir Piekarski (Brooklyn, NY) and Tzippy Levinger (Brooklyn, NY)
The graffiti has been replaced by advertising. The tokens have been replaced by MetroCards. But the subway preachers are a constant. They were there before I was born and will likely be there after I die — unless, of course, their occasional prophecy of the exact date that the world will end turns out to be accurate.
As a culmination to a whirlwind of a Shabbos, students attending the annual Chabad on Campus Shabbaton were treated to a grand ‘Melaveh Malkah Carnival’. Attractions ranged from Jousting and Rock Climbing to creative Jewish craft projects.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was slashed across his face during a verbal argument aboard a local city bus, and the attack is suspected of being gang related.
Rabbi Berel Zaltzman, Shliach of the Fairlawn Russian community in New Jersey, farbrenged last night with a group of Monsey yungeleit at a Melava Malka at the home of Tzili and Chaya Ehrenreich.
As Jewish singers & artists from around the world gathered to celebrate the release of a song in support of Sholom Rubashkin on Thursday, 29 Tishrei, one of the biggest stars was nowhere to be found. Singer and co-composer, Mordechai Ben David, was in Cincinnati, OH visiting a little boy, who needed some support and cheering up of his own.
Zalmy Langsam (Crown Heights) and Sara (bas R. Moshe & Chaya) Klein (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Members of congregation Beis Shmuel Chabad attended a three hour evening dedicated ‘to their children’ in a practical parenting workshop hosted by the Shul.
Yanky and Frumie (nee Gordon) Putter (Crown Heights)
Thousands of students who attend Chabad on campus in their selective cities joined their local Rabbis for a inspirational and uplifiting weekend in Crown Heights. Moshe Hecht, Nosson Zand, and Matisyahu played Motzai Shabbos in Beis Rivkah for these students of Chabad on Campus. For many it was the first time they went to a concert with a michitza down the middle of the room!
In 1920, the famous Brooklyn Jewish Center, on Eastern Parkway, opened its doors to cater to all aspects of Jewish Life. During this time, Crown Heights was one of the most exclusive Jewish communities in New York, and many prominent doctors, lawyers and politicians in the community were amongst the founding members of the Center.
Brooklyn residents yesterday rallied against an ugly, two-way bicycle lane on majestic Prospect Park West — just the latest costly and increasingly destructive traffic-rerouting scheme imposed by city Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.
