In addition to visiting Jewish people in Northern Germany, we also printed the Tanya—the most fundamental book of Chabad Chassidic thought—in several of the cities throughout the region. (In 1984, the Rebbe, of righteous memory, began a worldwide campaign to print Tanyas wherever there are Jews.)
Tens of Chabad schools are currently competing in the Kohls Cares contest on facebook, each school in the top 20 stands to win $500,000. Today Kohls released the top 100 list, in it 9 of the top 20 are Chabad schools, and over 20 percent of the 100 are Chabad schools as well.
Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz hosted Hasidic rapper DeScribe for his video launch. The video, “Harmony” is a Hip Hop Music Video and is being endorsed by Black and Jewish Community Leaders as a ground breaking Tool for Unity and Racial Harmony in Brooklyn.
T.E.A.M., a New York-based education organization is expanding its innovative approach towards higher education in the Jewish community by providing students the opportunity to earn Graduate Degrees using their Yeshiva credits.
Dear Crown Heights Residents,
I wrote an op-ed a couple of weeks ago titled “Love Your Fellow Crown Heightser As Yourself” and hope it was well received. Another piece, “Are There Any Lines for Chabad’s Ahavas Yisroel?” recently responded to it. This is my response.
The article concluded by asking two questions:
1. “Do not the individuals who walk here at home in Crown Heights and call themselves Lubavitchers also deserve rebuke?”
2. “Are there any lines for Lubavitch’s Ahavas Yisroel”?
After two years of studying, Bochurim at Yeshivas Bais Toras Menachem Smicha Institute of Los Angeles were ordained as Rabbis.
Yisroel and Chanchy (nee Dubrawsky) Kugel (Crown Heights)
Ben Federman (Brooklyn, NY) and Rochel Chanowitz (Montreal, Canada)
Yeshaya and Chani (nee Klein) Farron (Crown Heights)
Two Lubavitcher men, a father of five and a father of seven are suffering from kidney failure R”L.
Each desperately needs a kidney from a Blood Type A or O donor.
Both cases are Pikuah Nefesh.
Donating is 100% Kosher!
Two young Rabbis from New York came to visit Ponte Vedra and the Jacksonville Beaches this summer, as part of the world wide roving rabbis initiative of merkos lubavitch.
Recipients of a Chabad educational grant program that will open new preschools in the U.S. met Wednesday with Mr. David Slager, the philanthropist underwriting the $5 million preschool initiative by the Machne Israel Development Fund.
Sholom Ber and Perie (nee Brucstat) Wolosow (Crown Heights)
FALLSBURG — A Sunday afternoon lightning strike seriously injured a [Jewish] New Jersey woman stranded in a rowboat on Morningside Lake, as well as her would-be rescuer.
It is with sadness we you of the passing of mother and grandmother, Necha Mermelstein Shabbos morning.
Her Levaya was today, Monday and her family is sitting Shivah in Borough Park.
Levi Vogel (Crown Heights) and Mushky Borenstein (CH)
Empire Shteibel, 489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York]
Mechy Walter (Williamsburg) and Shaina Borochov (CH)
Khal Chasidim, 4820 15th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2
