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Sunday Night L’Chaims!

3 Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Shmully Levy (Crown Heights) and Batsheva Hecht (South Africa)
1094 Park Place [between Kingston Ave and Hampton Pl]

Mattanya Ginsburg (Crown Heights) and Rochel Notik (Crown Heights)
Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Mendy Schapiro (Crown Heights) and Chaya Begun (S. Paulo, Brazil)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

My Shliach Launches “Story Hour”

Shluchim always dream of a program that will keep their children enchanted and entertained while strengthening their connection to the Rebbe and their fellow young shluchim.

On Thursday, 28 Sivan, MyShliAch brought that dream to life through the pilot program launch of an exclusive new project for children of shluchim.

Judge Orders Tubroburg to Pay Up

Watertown Daily Times

A satellite view of the plant.

A state Supreme Court judge has ordered a kosher food plant owner to pay nearly $167,000 in delinquent utility bills by close of business July 2.

The city of Ogdensburg can shut off water and sewer service to the plant operated by Tubroburg LLC, owned by Menachem and Schneur Bistritzky, on July 6 should the payment not be made, Judge David R. Demarest wrote in a decision released Thursday.

Kellogg Recalls Breakfast Cereals Over Taste, Smell

Kelloggs recalled 28 million boxes of Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Apple Jacks and Honey Smacks when customers began complaining of a ‘waxy’ smell.

Foul smells from some Kellogg Co breakfast cereals prompted the world’s largest cereal maker to voluntarily pull millions of packages from store shelves around the United States.

Conversation with New Chabad Shluchim to Mumbai

lubavitch.com
Rabbi Chanoch Gechtman visiting Mumbai in the summer of 2009.

Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman are the newly named Chabad representatives to Mumbai. Before details of their appointment were made public, they shared a candid conversation with Baila Olidort, Editor-in-Chief of Lubavitch.com/Lubavitch News Service, about their decision to accept this appointment.

Video: Encounter with the Rebbe – Torah Education in Israel


Rabbi Menachem Porush was born in Jerusalem in 1916. A seventh-generation Jerusalemite, he devoted his life to championing Torah values and Torah education in Israel. A story about the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch

Vandals Leave Hateful Message at Chabad House

OLYMPIA, WA [KIROTV] — Olympia police are investigating a hate crime after vandals knocked over a Jewish menorah and then desecrated it.

The vandalism happened overnight Monday outside the home and office of Rabbi Cheski Edelman.

Cteens Making a Storm Down South

FLORIDA — Following on the heels of the amazing success of last week’s CTeen Northeast regional event, is CTeen South’s regional Paintball & BBQ trip. Over 100 teenagers gathered for a day of fun, food and paintball! The event was co-organized by CTeen’s headquarters in Brooklyn and a committee of shluchim in South Florida.

Thank You Shalom Mordechai – A Truly Blessed People

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.

Baruch. . . Shehecheyanu V’kiy’manu V’higiyanu Lizman Hazeh.

If you’re wondering what prompts the preceding invocation of thanksgiving and gratitude – normally reserved for particularly pleasing intermittent occurrences – that’s a good sign. It means that you’ve taken the bait. But don’t feel too bad, you can be sure that there is more to the invocation of this prayer, at this seemingly mundane and uneventful time of year, than mere attention grabbing.

The reason for the Shehecheyanu is because I, among others, have experienced this week something more moving and more pleasing than anything I have witnessed in my entire half century of residency in this world. I offer the Shehecheyanu in recognition of that deep soul rending occurrence.

Monsey Cheder Holds First 8th Grade Boys Graduation

MonseyChabad.com

MONSEY — This past Wednesday night, the Cheder held its first boys 8th grade graduation. Rabbi Wolowik welcomed everyone and introduced Mendel Jacobs, a talmid of 8th grade to act as MC. The MC called upon fellow talmidim Yechezkel Gross and Mendel Klein to recite the Rebbe’s and Rebetzin’s capitel tehillim.