
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.
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.
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.
Ahavas Chesed is having a Blood Drive today, Sunday, at their center, located at 271 Kingston Ave, between Lincoln Place and St Johns Place.
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.
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.
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]
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.
Yitzchok and Bina (nee Serebryanski) Lerman (Crown Heights)
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.
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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!
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.
“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.
Just before the summer, Beis HaMedrash Oholei Torah celebrated a Gala Tzeischem L’Sholom of the most elite Tmimim in Lubavitch today, who will be going, iy”h to communities around the world spreading Torah and Yiddishkeit.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a photo of the Rebbe seeing off the Hundreds of guests who came to spend the month of Tishrei with him of 1961.
On Chol Hamoed Sukkot Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, who is a Chaplain at the Rockville Fire Dept. arranged for a Sukka to be put up at the local Fire Station.
Hundreds of men, women and children, representing the greater Monsey community, joined Monsey Anash for a grand Simchas Beis Hashoeiva at Tzemach Tzedek Lubavitch of Monsey last night, the third night of Chol HaMoed.