Honor of the Yom Tov of Shvuos CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a Photo of the Rebbe Holding the Torah, this picture is from the winter of 1988.
Students of Bnos Menachem Preschool in Crown Heights prepared for Shavuos with Simcha. Standing around “Har Sinai” the meidelach heard the Aseres Hadibrois being read and then they enjoyed a special music activity with Morah Music.
In the sprit of Shavuos in conjunction with the Reb Shmuel Shrage Middos Program, United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway held a competition for their students to go home and bake the nicest cake they can. The most lovely tasty Chalev Yisroel cakes of all shapes and sizes were rated for taste, presentation and consistency.
A new shul has opened its doors in Crown Heights. The Besht Center, which is named after the late Reb Shmuel Tanchum Shuchat A”H, seeks to fill the spiritual needs of its participants– post yeshiva Bochurim and newly married youngerlight. The motivation for the Besht Center is that Crown Heights is a flourishing and ever expanding community brimming with young people in search of a kehilah to call their own.
Brooklyn, NY [CHI] — Kol Menachem, the organization behind the critically acclaimed series of English Judaica, is announcing a new venture – Torah in Ten. In this go, go, go world we live in, it can be difficult to sit down and find time to study the weekly parsha. And when shabbos rolls around, we all wish we had studied more and could contribute to the conversation at the shabbos table. Not to mention our children, don’t we all wish we could provide them beautiful insights into the weekly parsha?
(CBS) At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret.
Leibel Baumgarten (South Africa) and Estie Katzman (Omaha, NE)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at 629 Montgomery St
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Rabbi Asher and Dini Hecht together with their daughter Mushka have recently moved on Shlichus to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas where they will be establishing a new Chabad center, serving the needs of the Jews of the Texas valley.
As every year, from Yud Shevat thru Yud Alef Nissan, talmidim of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles worked in preparing a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan with their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program; together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 118,000 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and Yediyos Kloliyos. This number includes: 9,770 Mishnayos – including 151 complete Masechtos and 1,222 Perakim, 7 Sedarim, as well as 80 Perakim of Tanya Baal Peh.
MONSEY — Marking it tenth year, Yeshivas Menachem Mendel Lubavitch of Monsey held its first ever dinner last night, appropriately titled Dinner of the Decade.
Culprits could face hate-crime penalties in what Shreveport police say was the weekend desecration of several historic Jewish graves.
Investigators went to Oakland Cemetery, on the edge of the downtown and Ledbetter Heights neighborhoods, about 2 p.m. Saturday after a groundskeeper reported that nine headstones had been overturned or broken.
Sholom M. Rubashkin was hospitalized over the weekend after a possible insect bite became infected and got worse over the weekend, requiring hospitalization.
The following is the fourth gallery that was submitted to our Photo Competition, depicting “Our Beautiful Community”.
This is the first gallery of many already submitted! To learn more or join the competition visit awarmfocus.org
We are saddened to inform you that Esther Klein, mother of Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, passed away Friday evening, May 14th, at 8:00pm.
Funeral services will take place on Monday afternoon, May 17th, at 1:00pm sharp in the McCormick Auditorium of the Norris University Center of Northwestern University, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208. Following services, internment will take place at West Lawn Cemetery, 7801 West Montrose Avenue, Norridge, IL 60706.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
Menachem Rapp (Melbourne, Australia) and Mushki Pil (San Francisco, CA)
