Baby Girl!
Velvel and Cheyena (nee Bernstein) Freedman (Manhattan, NY)
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Transcripts on ’73 War, Now Public, Grip Israel
JERUSALEM — For many Israelis, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war was their single most terrifying moment, when a woefully unprepared nation, deluded into believing that its neighbors regarded it as impregnable, suffered a devastating attack and struggled back to victory at enormous cost with last-minute American help.
A group of Crown Heights kids get together weekly and learn the martial art of Karate.
Photos: Kids Learn Karate
A group of Crown Heights kids get together weekly and learn the martial art of Karate.
Rabbi Moshe New, Kinus Banquet Keynote Speaker
CrownHeights.info has just learned that Rabbi Moshe New, Shliach in Montreal Canada and director of the Montreal Torah Center will be this year’s keynote speaker of the Kinus Hashluchim Banquet, which will be taking place here in Brooklyn.
PSA: Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, October 11 for Columbus Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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.
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
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
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)
