Crown Heights Cyclists Race in Prospect Park
A group of bicyclists got together this morning for a race around prospect park. The group of 30 or so was made up of both avid and novice cyclists.
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Bnos Chomesh Goes Biking!
A group of students from Bnos Chomesh Girls’ High School took to the bike paths on Governors Island as part of the breakout of their “Ma’alin Bakodesh” program.
“Hashem Loves you More than Me”
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: We are presenting a short video clip from ‘Sunday Dollars’ on the 13 Teves, 5751. In this clip we see Rabbi Herbert (Chaim Zev) Bumzr introduce to the Rebbe an acquaintance of his. The Rebbe turns to Rabbi Bumzr and says, “ Explain to him that he is more beloved by G-d than you and me.” From the weekly video magazine, ‘Living Torah’. Courtesy of JEM.
Mendy Pellin Turns Movie Star
CrownHeights.info has learned that Chabad comedian, Mendy Pellin is playing the lead role in an independent film, “A Modest Suggestion.”
Kinus Hashluchim to Build Teamwork
Mr Tom Heck, president of the International Association of Teamwork Facilitators (IATF), will be among the many top-tier speakers and lecturers at this years international Kinus Hashluchim.
Israeli Campus Paradox: More Jews, Less Shabbos
By R. C. Berman for Lubavitch.com
At Tel Aviv University, future doctor Jordana Hikri was experiencing a classic Israeli paradox. Hikri spent her undergraduate years at Dartmouth, where the Jewish student population barely fills two school buses. Yet Jewish life on campus was active, and her calendar was booked with Shabbat dinners, holiday celebrations, and Jewish events. In Tel Aviv, Friday night is for clubbing.
Today: Blood Drive
Ahavas Chesed is having a Blood Drive today, Sunday, at their center, located at 271 Kingston Ave, between Lincoln Place and St Johns Place.
Brooklyn Bum Fakes War Wound for Cash
NY Post
(L-R) 1) Robert Mc Mahon appears an arm short. 2) While begging for cash in Brooklyn, he plays up his phony stints in Vietnam. 3) At day’s end, he counts his cash – with both fully functioning arms.
Semper fake!
For years, Brooklyn commuters have opened their wallets for Robert McMahon, handing cash to this heroic and heartbreaking figure, a Vietnam vet in combat fatigues, his left arm missing and his right leg crippled, as he panhandles on Ocean Parkway in Kensington.
Kansas City Chabad Turns 40
When Rabbi Sholom and Blumah Wineberg were dispatched to Kansas City by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1970, this was the Wild West for Chasidim. Just the eighth Chabad-Lubavitch regional center, Los Angeles was the only permanent outpost further west.
4 Sunday Night L’Chaims!
Shmuly Gajer (Crown Heights) and Orly Gandjian (Brooklyn, NY)
Crown Condos, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Levi Altein (Crown Heights) and Chaya Ladaew (Crown Heights)
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Levi Weinbaum (London, England) and Mushka Posner (Birmingham, AL)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Campus Leaders in Running as Jewish Community Heroes
Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch Center for Jewish Student Life, shares a word with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign chancellor Richard Herman before a 2009 dinner celebrating the Chabad House’s five years on campus.
Baby Girl!
Yitzchok and Bina (nee Serebryanski) Lerman (Crown Heights)
Kenosha News
Congregation President Ron Sanders, left, and Rabbi Tzali Wilschanski stand in front of the Bnai Zedek Synogogue at 1602 56th St.
It’s not often that members of a congregation get a peek into the past to see and touch artifacts representative of their local religious origins. But congregants belonging to the Jewish community’s Bnai Zedek Chabad will have such on opportunity on Oct. 17 during the celebration of their nearly 100-year-old synagogue.
The Celebration of the Century
Kenosha News
Congregation President Ron Sanders, left, and Rabbi Tzali Wilschanski stand in front of the Bnai Zedek Synogogue at 1602 56th St.
It’s not often that members of a congregation get a peek into the past to see and touch artifacts representative of their local religious origins. But congregants belonging to the Jewish community’s Bnai Zedek Chabad will have such on opportunity on Oct. 17 during the celebration of their nearly 100-year-old synagogue.
ParshaPix: Noach – “Behold I Am Bringing the Flood”
CrownHeights.info is proud to present the weekly ParshaPix by aWarmFocus.org
All Hands On Deck: ULYOP Kicks Off Mishmar!
Kicking off this year’s Mishmar program at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Ocean Parkway, students of the 8th grade set off a day of sailing out of South Street Seaport on a real working Tall Ship which was built in 1885, and is the only of its kind still in merchant service!
3 Car Mashup on Troy Avenue
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A combination of courtesy and distraction was the cause of a 3 car collision at the intersection of Crown Street and Troy Avenue this morning.
by Frank Bruni - New York Times Magazine
Clara Santos Perez, left, the manager of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, tries to balance inclusion with strict religious customs that are not her own.
“IS HE COMING BACK?” Clara Santos Perez was peering out the windows and across the street, where an imposing man in black stood, his face turned in her direction.
Was he watching? Waiting? Planning to confront her anew? Perez wondered aloud about all of this, wrung her hands and paced. In her agitation and dread she more closely resembled a criminal on the lam than what she really was: a restaurant manager rattled by an unusually troubling customer complaint.
Keeping It Kosher
by Frank Bruni – New York Times Magazine
Clara Santos Perez, left, the manager of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, tries to balance inclusion with strict religious customs that are not her own.
“IS HE COMING BACK?” Clara Santos Perez was peering out the windows and across the street, where an imposing man in black stood, his face turned in her direction.
Was he watching? Waiting? Planning to confront her anew? Perez wondered aloud about all of this, wrung her hands and paced. In her agitation and dread she more closely resembled a criminal on the lam than what she really was: a restaurant manager rattled by an unusually troubling customer complaint.
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