Kehot released a new book titled, “The Educator’s Privilege.” It is a special tribute to teachers and educators. The significance of Jewish education and the privilege of engaging in the educational calling.
Chof Av is the Yom Hilulah of the Rebbe’s father, Reb Levi Yitzchak.
Reb Levik and Rebbetzin Chana risked a lot and toiled greatly to make sure that Reb Levik’s novel insights in Torah would be preserved.Thanks to their perseverance we have Toras Levi Yitzchak, and learning it will most assuredly give nachas to his Neshama.
Mechy Walter (Williamsburg) and Shaina Borochov (Crown Heights)
Sanford Rosenthal surfs the web using a talking computer. To find matching clothes each morning, he feels the Braille labels on his shirts. His cell phone announces the number of the caller who is trying to reach him.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a newly released photo of the Rebbe entering a farbrengen in the winter of 1975. Special thanks to Rabbi Shlomo Friedman, member of Lubavitch Youth Organization and director of Yad L’Shliach, an organization dedicated to helping the Rebbe’s emissaries worldwide.
To all our honored Jewish brethren residing in the Catskill region and beyond, sheyichyu;
The quality of medical care in the Catskill region is unfortunately not on the level of care that you are accustomed to in the city. Certain medical capabilities and treatments are just not available in the local community hospitals (as is well known both inside and outside our communities) and frequently results in delay of proper care.
Eli and Chanie (nee Boyarsky) Spalter (Crown Heights)
Menachem and Dassi (nee Kaplan) Kirshenbaum (Crown Heights)
Alan Glantz (New York, NY) and Daniella Malkah Bieda (Boca Raton, FL)
We are pleased to present our tenth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller. To receive this class to your inbox subscribe here: www.torahinten.com
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Just yesterday Shomrim managed to apprehend a shoplifter who stole from Kingston Bargain Center, today another criminal was at it again, and Shomrim apprehended him as well.
Today Gan Menachem day camp had Charlie Buttons hat day! Campers brought hats similar to that of the one Charlie wears, as well as a variety of other interesting hats. The day was punctuated by a visit of Charlie Buttons himself!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two cars collided in an intersection yesterday, Tuesday evening, and injured five. The incident took place at around 7:00pm in the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue, where a minivan with 4 passengers collided with a sedan, injuring all of the vehicles occupants.
In what has become a summer tradition, Avraham Fried performed in the ‘Sultan Pool’ in Jerusalem before a crowd of thousands.
Shaya Green (Liverpool, England) and Leah Breindel (London, England)
Local Crown Heights photographer Chaim Perl set out to capture the summer beauty of our neighborhood. Want to show off your neighborhood? Send us a gallery to news@crownheights.info!
BERLIN [AP] — A suspected former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday.
