Weather last night showed no mercy as the Red Heifers faced The Tribe in an angst-filled match-up. The Tribe connected often and early, jumping to a wide-margin lead by the 3rd inning. As the rain created hazards at every turn on the field, runners were challenged to maintain their footing.
Mordechai and Chana (nee Langman) Lightstone (Crown Heights)
LA QUINTA, CA [CHI] — A Facebook fan page outlining a game called “Beat the Jew” has been shut-down. The game, where “the Jew” is chased down the highway, was played by some 40 high school students in Southern California’s La Quinta High. Shliach to the area, Rabbi Posner voiced outrage, while the school principal says the students involved can’t even be expelled.
Have you seen those super cool Crown Heights Softball League baseball caps, with that Lubavitcher in the logo, and thought “where can I get one of those?” Well there are a limited number of them available for purchase on Kingston, and just in time for the summer!
WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — The White House hosted a first-ever reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room yesterday, Thursday. President Barack Obama spoke about the important contributions the Jewish people have made in the United States and the need for America to support Israel.
Amongst the varied items for which we seek forgiveness in the confession prayer recited on the holy Yom Kippur, is a somewhat odd class of transgression: “The sins which we have committed before You with the ‘Yetzer hara,’ (evil inclination).”
“But,” as my early days spiritual mentor would rhetorically muse, “Aren’t all sins preformed with the evil inclination? Surely there are no sins committed with the ‘Good inclination?’”
“The sins which we have committed with the evil inclination,” he would offer as a rejoinder, “Refers not to sins which the evil inclination had managed to drag us into, but rather to sins into which we had managed to drag our evil inclination.”
It was a beautiful day on March 1, 1994, as Nachum Sasonkin, an Israeli-born 18-year-old student at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn, rode in a van with his friends, returning to yeshiva from a visit to the hospital in Manhattan where their Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel Schneerson—lay in a coma. They were young men, teenagers, studying in yeshiva; everything was just the way they had hoped it would be. But then, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, everything went black. Someone was shooting at their school bus.
Two Israeli Chabad organizations, Yad Beyad and Leket Israel are currently on of the top five finalists in a competition to win one million Shekels.
Yosef and Chanie (nee Korolitzky) Pontos
658 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
Mordechai and Chana (nee Langman) Lightstone
Beis Eliezer Yitzchok, 394 Kingston Ave [Crown and Montgomery]
Zalmen and Chanie Hertzel
770 Lefferts Ave, Apt C2L [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
Levy and Maryasha (nee Duchan) Djian
Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Levi and Sarah (nee Ungar) Dworcan
Mayan Yisroel, 3307 Avenue N, Brooklyn, NY 11234
Chesky and Rochel Litzman
8 Grosser Ln, Monsey, NY 10952
WATERLOO, IA — Defense attorneys for Sholom Rubashkin quizzed the state’s lead investigator over the age of Guatemalan and Mexican immigrants detained in the 2008 Agriprocessors raid Thursday.
Twelve-year-old Iowa native Meir Simcha Rubashkin documents his personal view of his hometown in Postville with specific snapshots and captions. The story his photographs tell is one of the past, present, and future.
From the Inbox: A letter from concerned mother with child care tips.
As a working mother (I would love to stay home but unfortunately there are bills to pay) I am faced with the challenge of finding an appropriate babysitter for my child(ren). In my quest to find a loving, caring, devoted woman to care for my child while I am away-and my experience using some has left me with a haunting question. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILD IS? I started off naïve (like many) thinking that sending my child to an experienced mother of many was surely a good place for him…
For a woman to open a babysitting service in her home takes little or no effort at all. The place is rent free and she takes out her own childrens toys. Many are warm and caring but there are many that do it for the money alone and don’t have your child’s best interest at heart. I am happy to say that my child is (now B’h) by an incredible woman whom he lovingly calls ‘Bubby’ but here are some things that I personally saw and heard from other mothers.
Last night, Wednesday evening Chabad of Mineola, led by Rabbi Anchelle Perl, hosted Israel’s Ambassador to the USA, Dr Michael B. Oren. More than 300 distinguished leaders of the Jewish community on Long Island gathered for this private briefing with the Ambassador.
Honda Motor Company has recently issued a recall that affects one of the most common car used by Jewish families, its Odyssey minivan. The issues is the brake pedal getting soft over time and not stopping the car properly.
As Sholom Rubashkin’s trial over child-labor charges enters its third week, the spectacle of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants stammering fictitious stories before a jury continues to evoke astonishment that such a charade could pass for legitimate proceedings in an American court of law.
Today, Thursday is the last day to vote for the finalists in the Jewish Federation of Rockland County’s Rockland Jewish Hero Contest. Of the five couple finalists, three are Lubavitchers.
CrownHeights.info and The Avner Institute would like to present a beautiful photo of the Rebbe delivering an address to the lay leaders of Chabad together with their Shluchim (emissaries) in the winter of 1991. During this event, begun in the 1980s by Machane Israel, lay leaders were given the merit to meet with the Rebbe privately to discuss Chabad activities in their cities, as well as personal matters.
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