Talmidim in Kita Bais of Lubavitcher Yeshiva were rewarded for outstanding performance in learning and being on time and not missing class with a trip for ice cream on Kingston Avenue.
I received a call from a neighboring Shliach the other day. It was about a student of his, originally from Atlanta. This student comes from a minimal Jewish background. Besides for the Pesach Seder and the High Holidays (“sometimes,” as the mother shared with me), there is no Yiddishkeit to talk of.
“We don’t do Friday night dinners,” confessed the mother. “We have too much going on. Julie (names have been changed) goes to dance, the boy plays sports, and we are not really motivated for Shabbos.”
Their oldest daughter, at college, away from home for the first time, has fallen in with a group of students from a different religion. She is now “discovering G-d,” and feeling really good about it. The G-d she should be looking for is, of course, a G-d she knows very little about. She has now finally found something to confide in.
NYC can be overwhelming for a born and bred Brooklynite, just as well as any out-of-towner. Between work and errands, bridal showers and dating, life in the city gets pretty hectic. However, once a week, there is an oasis in time when young adult women can get together to kick back and relax. No, this is not our holy Shabbos, which is just as anticipated, but rather, a tastefully transformed lounge where one can unwind, surrounded by fellow peers from all backgrounds. Enjoy a warm dinner and scrumptious treats in a cozy ambiance created by low ottomans and glowing candles. Catch up with friends not seen all week. Have an intellectual conversation with complete strangers as though old friends. Soak in words of wisdom from Rabbis, professionals and mentors.
This is Nightlife.
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Once again, Melbourne’s Women in Unity held another astoundingly successful event — its fifth since its establishment, in response to the Mumbai tragedy. The commitment to the unity of the Jewish people that originally galvanized its founders, Rebbetzins Riva Cohen, Sara Gutnick, and Miriam Telsner, set the tone for an evening that warmed almost two hundred women on one of the coldest wintery nights of the season. Promoted as a pre-Shavous gathering for women of all segments of Melbourne’s wider Jewish communities, the evening highlighted the theme of ‘the women were first’. The idea that it was the women who were approached first – even before the men at the giving of the Torah, was heard throughout the evening as a source of pride and a call to action.
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PITTSBURGH, PA [CHI] — Over six hundred people listened as the world renowned author of over seventy books, and expert in addictive behavior praised the Rebbes shluchim for their selfless dedication.
Speaking with reverence of the late Rabbi Sholom Posner founder of the Yeshiva Schools in Pittsburgh, Rabbi Twerski said that it was because of the selfless dedication he saw in Rabbi Posner that he decided to move his family to Pittsburgh and to send his children to the Yeshiva schools.
Shliach to Tallahasee, FL, Rabbi Schneur Z. Oirechman gives the opening prayer at the Senate Session meeting held on April 21, 2010.
Following the Rebbes Horoah the Shul in Montreal Canada held a Kinus Torah on Friday, Isru Chag of Shavuot, in which Rabbi Dov Ber Bell, Rabbi Nosson Fisher and Rabbi Caim Eliezer Ashkenazi spoke.
The Landmark Funding Red Heifers squared off against the Print House Hammers for a late night game at St. Johns Rec, with the game ultimately ending in a 7-7 score along with one injury.
Taking a mid-afternoon break from running his busy Williamsburg restaurant, David Lowey hustled over to a new Bushwick gym and hopped on an elliptical machine, pedaling vigorously in his full Satmar regalia.
Tzitzit dangling from his black pants and payes swinging over his ears, the 290-pound 26-year-old breathed heavily, as he scrolled through the day’s Daf Yomi Talmud page online, from a touch-screen computer panel in front of him.
When he began working out three months ago, Lowey was the lone Satmar member of Green Fitness Studio, an eco-friendly gym that opened in December and serves a primarily hipster clientele.
But with Lowey, who has already lost 60 pounds, leading the way, more than 100 members of his community now work out at Green Fitness, some in their three-piece formal wear, others sampling the gym’s complimentary sweats.
Yakir Touitou (Rechovot, Israel/Seattle) and Blumie Heisler (Seattle, WA)
With quiet restored to the streets of Bangkok, Rabbi Yosef C. Kantor, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who had urged Jewish residents in the city to pray for the peace of Thailand, reported just before the dawn of the Jewish Sabbath that communal institutions had largely been spared the effects of a mid-week crackdown on anti-government protesters.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Federal sentencing for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin has been delayed.
STAMFORD, CT — Over 1000 people turned out to salute 300 Friendship Circle of Stamford’s volunteers and the work they do, last week in the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Stamford.
All of Anash are encouraged to attend a Kinus b’zchus Sholom Mordechai haLevi ben Rivka this Tuesday, 12 Sivan, May 25, at Oholei Torah. Sholom Mordechai faces sentencing this Thursday, May 27.
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