
Sydney Gathers for 19 Kislev Farbregen
Over 500 people gathered in Sydney’s Yeshiva Center for a Farbrengen Thursday in honor of 19 Kislev.
Over 500 people gathered in Sydney’s Yeshiva Center for a Farbrengen Thursday in honor of 19 Kislev.
Imprisoned in Czarist Russia, the Alter Rebbe’s case was at the mercy of the most anti-Semitic officials of the most powerful country in the world. Miraculously, his acquittal was ordered by the Czar himself, and he was freed on Yud-Tes Kislev. Chanukah too, celebrates the victory of light over might — when the small Jewish nation of Israel prevailed over the tyrannical Greek Empire.
It wasn’t long ago when NY1 featured an interesting story about a Muslim Imam who came to the aid of small Chabad Shul in the Bronx, today Fox News ran a thanksgiving special on the unlikely and amazing story.
In celebration of 19 Kislev, Jewish.TV presents a special live lecture, Practical Spirituality: An Overview on Tanya.
Rabbi Avraham Garfinkel, a beloved former teacher at Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway, will Farbreng at Empire Shteible Thursday evening in honor of Yud Tes Kislev.
Yoely and Raizel (nee Lefkowitz) Danzinger (Brooklyn, NY)
As part of a rapid increase in Jewish services in the terror-stricken financial capital of Mumbai, India, community officials are placing the final touches on a restored ritual bath built by the murdered directors of the city’s Chabad House, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.
In an interview with HIAS, the organization that helped him immigrate from the Ukraine, boxer Dmitriy Salita talks about his childhood, his family, boxing, and his Jewish faith.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Thursday, November 25 for the observance of Thanksgiving Day. Because Thanksgiving Day is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).
The Friday after Thanksgiving, November 26, is not a holiday, and alternate side parking regulations, parking meter rules, and all other parking regulations will be in effect.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A group of a Jewish teens were robbed by a gun toting duo earlier this evening. Thanks to quick police response one of them were arrested.
Shmuel Chaim (ben Mordechai) Rosenfeld (Crown Heights) and Chanie (bas Yisroel Meir) Brill (Passaic, NJ)
Yitzchok and Yehudis (nee Rumbak) Smith (Crown Heights)
Sroli and Aliza (nee Hecht) Creeger (Crown Heights)
ALASKA [CHI] — Alaska U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and Governor Sean Parnell, along with 500 Supporters and Friends at the 7th Annual Auction of Chabad in Alaska Led by the Shluchim Rabbi Yosef and Esty Greenberg.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A person was struck by a car after it collided with another vehicle which ran a red light. The accident occurred in the intersection of Brooklyn and Maple.
New Albany, Ohio — Residents of historical New Albany, Ohio will soon welcome the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, a stately Georgian structure located in the heart of the quaint village.
Talmidim in Rabbi Reibers 7th grade class were rewarded with an awesome Shabbaton with Shliach Rabbi Mendy Heber at Chabad of Brookville.