Thursday evening, the 2nd night of Chanukah (Dec. 2nd), a crowd of over 100 people gathered on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre, for the annual Bais Menachem Menorah lighting. The atmosphere was made very festive by a live musical performance of the Bais Menachem Band.
Yossi Cunin (Crown Heights) to Chaya Mushka Charytan (Winnipeg, Canada)
Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave]
Moshe Pinchus Katz (Crown Heights) to Chaya Mushka Shuchat (Caracas, Venezuela)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Mendy Hecht (Beit Shemesh / Melbourne) to Mushky Vogel (Crown Heights)
1227 President St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — It was a sight reminiscent of decades past, stripped down cars lay waste on the city street, car stereos stolen in hourly occurrences, as well as the sight of cars missing their wheels and sitting atop four bricks. This is what greeted the proud owner of a brand new Infinity sports coupe on Friday morning, his car without wheels.
Rabbi Chaim and his wife Mushka Zaklos of Crown Heights will IYH be moving out on Shlichus to Battery Park City, NY where they will be establishing a Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish community.
The first completed part of Jewish Childrens Museum’s 4th floor was installed this morning, and it consisted of a mural of the Jews in the Desert.
A devout Israeli tourist triggered a bomb alert on a New Zealand ferry when crew members mistook his Jewish prayer items for possible explosives.
Wednesday night the 1st night of Chanukah over 60 cars (120 people) partook in the annual Chanukah Menorah Parade in Louisville Kentucky. The 6 mile long Parade made its way to The Summit mall where Mayor-elect Greg Fischer Light the Beautiful Menorah.
This Chanukah, ten neighboring Shluchim of Rabbi Levi Deitsch got together for a first time Menorah Car Parade. Sponsored by Lubavitch of Maryland and Chabad of N. Virginia, on Monday the 6th night of Chanukah, the Shluchim with two dozen Menorah Cars streamed into Rabbi Levi’s Chabad House in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
A Menorah was lit on the last day of Chanukah in the officers’ mess at Sydney’s Victoria Barracks.
An educational consulting company hired by Miami-Dade County has rated Chabads Hebrew After-School Program one of the best in the county. Cynthia Serure, president of A Gift for the Soul, Inc., spent two weeks observing and analyzing every aspect of Chabads program and concluded the program was exemplary.
Culinary school had its frustrations for Seth Warshaw, the executive chef and owner of Etc. Steakhouse, a kosher restaurant in Teaneck, N.J. He had enrolled in a prestigious cooking school in Manhattan, but it quickly became clear that his religious restrictions rendered many hallmarks of fine French cooking — like rich creams and luscious crustaceans — off-limits.
Chabad of RARA celebrated ten years of full time operation with ten Chanukah parties around the country. In Darwin and Cairns, Townsville and Coffs Harbour, Port Maquarie and Wollongong, Nowra and Newcastle, Palmerston and Geelong; Channukah celebrations were held for the local communities.
Eli Federman, a local resident, was one of the very few to speak up about the gag order imposed by the Rabonim. His letter was met with a flood of response, both critical and supportive. In a new letter Federman writes that one of those who reached out was Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the CHJCC, and what he had to say was quite surprising.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Shots rang out late last night, and one of the bullets struck a minivan that was driven by a Jewish man. The incident startled many residents inside their homes, but none more than the driver whose rear window suddenly exploded and a bullet remained lodged in the roof liner of his car.
LOS ANGELES [CHI] — On Sunday, Hey Teves, talmidm of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles celebrated Didan Notzach with a special program. Rabbi Avrahom Berns, a former librarian at the Agudas Chassidei Chabad Library spoke to the talmidim, sharing a fascinating overview of the history of Seforim and the unique collection of Seforim, Chafeitzim and Kisvei Yad to be found in the Rebbe’s Library.
Yakov Mayteles is sitting Shiva for his father, Yechiel Mayteles (Boro Park) at 775 Montgomery St.
Shachris Mon. Tue. and Wed at 8:45am
Mincha and Maariv, bizmano.
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
It has been said before, but it is becoming more evident that CTeen is fast becoming the new face of Jewish youth throughout the country.
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