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.
This Friday, 14th of Cheshvan, marks the birthday of the highly esteemed, well respected and beloved maggid shiur in Oholei Torah Zal, Reb Avrohom Gerlitzky. There has been a tradition for many years, that on his birthday his talmidim make it a special day, a highlight in the Oholei Torah calendar. This year was no exception.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Police lost a gun toting car thief after a vehicle pursuit that ended in a crash. The chase ended on Carroll off Troy after the suspect crashed and disabled his vehicle, a brief foot chase ensued, and police eventually lost him.
Today, Friday, close to 1,000 students from over 100 university campuses across North America, will arrive in the Crown Heights neighborhood, in honor of the annual Chabad on Campus International Shabbaton.
Congratulations and Mazel Tov to Eli Bakal, Charlene Swain and Sasha Matusevich, The North of Boston JLI Teen interns, for winning the International JLI Teens Video Contest. The Boston trio competed against other JLI Teen Interns from around the world, putting their creativity and acting skills to the test.
And his wife looked from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
The Rabbi, a high school teacher and a group of teenagers from Hollywood’s original Reform Temple visited Chabad of South Broward Wednesday evening October 20, and were intrigued and inspired by their hour long visit.
As a child of four or five, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, during an encounter with his grandfather, Rabbi Menachem Mendel, burst into tears. He had learned in Cheder the opening verse of Parshas Vayeira: “And G-d revealed himself to Avraham…” “Why,” wept the child, “Doesn’t G-d reveal Himself to me?!”
Rabbi Menachem Mendel replied: “When a righteous Jew, at the age of 99, realizes that he must circumcise himself – that he must continue to perfect himself – he is worthy that G-d should reveal Himself to him.”
“As a young man, full of questions about faith, I travelled to the United States where, I had heard, there were outstanding rabbis. I met many, but I also had the privilege of meeting the greatest Jewish leader of my generation, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Heir to the dynastic leadership of a relatively small group of Jewish mystics, he had escaped from Europe to New York during the Second World War and had turned the tattered remnants of his flock into a worldwide movement.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Dov Yehuda Halevi Ben Gila Esther
A 3.5 Months old who is in the ICU.
Ruchama Shaindel bas Henya Gittel Miriam
A 27-year-old young mother from London of 3 beautiful little girls, who went into cardiac-arrest yesterday and had brain hemorrhaging from an undiagnosed tumor. She is in a coma and the doctors do not want to operate. They want to turn off life support.
Today the new Talmiddim Hashluchim Have arrived in Sydney, Australia.
The Avner Institute would like to present a dramatic photograph dated 1938 of the Previous Rebbe, who is seated pensively in a hotel, in a suburb in Poland, while immersed in his customary learning and writing.
VIEDO, FL — At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, a crowd of people in UCF’s Fairwinds Alumni ballroom watched as the last remaining lines of Hebrew script were inscribed into UCF Chabad’s very own Sefer Torah (Torah scroll). The finishing of this scroll marks not only the first Torah that this Chabad chapter has ever had, but also the first in the entire UCF community.
Beginning this January, college students looking to delve into Torah study will have the opportunity to study in the relaxing atmosphere of North Miami Beach, Florida at Yeshiva Torah Ohr. The Yeshiva specializes in providing a comfortable and friendly surrounding for the typical American college student wishing to grow in their commitment to Yiddishkeit and develop the skills in learning while being immersed in a Chassidishe atmosphere.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy awarded $625,000 grants to two Chabad-Lubavitch run grassroots initiatives to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse.
Mordechai and Yehudis Newman (Alexandria, VA)
11
