ZHMERYNKA, Ukrain — In every place on Merkos Shlichus, one of the best things to do, is to make a get-together of all the local Jews. This we did, in Zhmerynka, Ukraine. It was last Friday, where we stood for hours in a tiny kitchen in the local Shule cooking food, with the meager kosher ingredients available in this part of the world. We were told to cook for, “Fertzig menschen” (“Forty people”), and thus we pealed 10lbs of potatoes (and did much more).
If you attend synagogue, on average, you might hear 40 sermons in one year. What if you could find out everything you wanted to know about Judaism in just under a week? What if you could educate yourself and your family with years of Jewish inspiration and education in just five intriguing days? What if you could meet others just like you and leave with new, firm friends?
SIDNEY, MT — Seemingly out of place but nevertheless on a mission of sorts, you may have seen two men pass through Sidney Wednesday dressed in traditional Jewish garb.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After a month long ordeal, two kidnapped children were reunited with their mother in Crown Heights yesterday, Thursday. While their father, who kidnapped them, was arraigned charges and released on $100,000 bail bond today.
On Motzaei Shabbos (28 Tammuz), at 12 midnight, Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov came to be menachem avel the Satmar Rebbe in Monroe. Rabbi Shemtov was accompanied by his son Rabbi Levi Shemtov, of Washington, and Rabbi Pesach Burston, director of Chabad of Orange County who lives in Monroe.
Napoleon Bonaparte was passing through the Jewish quarter in Paris when he stopped to investigate the strange cries and laments emanating from the local synagogue. His curiosity had peaked when he was informed that it was the Ninth of Av and that he was listening to the Jewish people wail over the destruction of their Holy Temple in Jerusalem. “When did this thing happen?” probed the inquisitive Emperor. “Some 1700 years ago,” came the nonchalant reply. Upon hearing this Napoleon remarked in a tone of awe and conviction: “A people who refuse to forget their past, are destined to forever have a future.”
“Whoever mourns for Jerusalem, will merit to witness her rejoicing,” as the Prophet (Yeshayahu 66:10) declares: “Rejoice with her greatly, all who mourn for her.” – Talmud
Dovid Chaim and Racheli (nee Kats) Gurovich (Crown Heights)
READING, PA — When Chana Lipsker moved from London to Reading, Pa., as the wife of a Chabad rabbi, she knew she would be opening her home to community members every Friday night for Shabbat dinner.
The Rebbe says:
1. With this week’s Torah portion we will read and study a new Book in the Chumash (the five books of Moses). So far this year we have experienced the Book of Bereishis (Genesis), the Book of Shemos (Exodus), the Book of Vayikra (Leviticus) and the Book of Bamidbar (Numbers). This Shabbos we begin the Fifth Book- the Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).
2. As we have previously discussed, the portion of Devarim begins a new era in the life of the Jewish people. They are now beginning a life of exile where they would not see miracles every day, nor would their necessities be taken care of for them by G-d.
Moreover, as we have also previously discussed, Rebbe Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev explains that on this Shabbos of Parshas Devarim, which is called, “Shabbos Chazon – The Shabbos of the (prophetic) vision”, a vision of the third and final Beis Hamikdash (Holy Temple) is shown to the Soul of every single Jew.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present a first time released photo of the Rebbe from the winter of 1962.
Mendel and Nechama Dina Hecht (Greenfield, MA)
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to
Zevi and Rochel Steinhauser (Crown Heights)
Meir and Shterna (nee Gansburg) Shur
645 Lefferts Ave, Apt 3B [corner Albany Ave]
Naftoli and Cheyenna (nee Avzon) Schmukler
547 Crown St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Yehuda and Shaindy (nee Brownstein) Green
621 Empire Blvd [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Mordechai and Raizel Schwei
796 Montgomery St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two young jewish women were mugged by two black teens early this evening. The incident began shortly after 7:00pm Thursday and the details are still unclear. There were many witnesses, with many different accounts of what happened.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Aida Golda bas Zelda
She has breast cancer and it has now spread to the brain.
LAKEWOOD — Over five thousand people jammed Lake Terrace and neighboring streets in Lakewood last night, in an outpouring of solidarity for Sholom Mordechai Rubahskin that continued past midnight.
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