CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This afternoon, Thursday, 2nd grade students celebrated their Chumash Siyum with a BBQ at Rabbi Karp’s home. The children are from Rabbi Karp and Rabbi Gurkov’s third grade class at the United Lubavitcher Yeshivah on Crown St.
KSCVK and Devorah Benjamin will be hosting their annual auction on Sunday, May 25th. Will you be coming in person?
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
CEDAR RAPIDS [CHI] — Federal prosecutors asked Federal Judge, Linda Reade today, Thursday to sentence Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin to 25 years in prison, less than the life sentence they initially requested.
Sholom Rubashkin, dressed in an orange jump suit and chains, gave a tearful speech at the end of his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. He told the court he had made mistakes and was remorseful. In a thick Brooklyn accent, he reiterated that he was sorry for his actions, and that he was put in a position by his family of running the operations of a large plant for which he had no training or interest.
Aharon (AJ) and Mimi (nee Schochet) Fehler (Crown Heights)
Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Chicago, Richard M Daley and Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun attended a private reception in the Chicago French Market on Tuesday, April 27. The French Mayor together with Deputy Mayor of Paris, Pierre Schapira were in Chicago as guests of honor in the Global Cities Forum, which brings together mayors and/or deputy mayors of Chicago partner cities, to exchange innovative ideas about the future of cities.
It was a bizarre spectacle seeing boxes of brand new Seforim, along with thousands of copies of Beis Moshiach magazine being hauled out of an Eastern Parkway building’s basement, and into a large dumpster waiting at the curb.
CANADA — Nearly 200 people filled the mezzanine of the darkened stunning sanctuary/auditorium in Chabad at Flamingo for the third annual Flamingo Film Festival.
CEDAR RAPIDS — An accountant testified Thursday that prosecutors who won a conviction in the financial fraud trial of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager miscalculated the millions of dollars in losses suffered by a bank.
Bochurim in Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad of LA are hard at work building three floats for the Lag BaOmer parade, which will be taking place on Pico Boulevard, one of LA’s main thoroughfares, and will include floats, marching bands, Bikers, Police and many others.
Boruch and Chanie (nee Lison) Weingarten (Crown Heights)
CHPicturesblog.com sent in these beautiful pictures of the signs that went up on the facade of 788 Easter Pkwy for the Great Parade.
Would you like hummus in your coffee? Israeli scientists develop new milk alternative made out of chickpeas.
An interesting looking, tall candelabra type fixture was assembled for a Lag BaOmer bon fire in Jerusalem.
ENGLAND — The place is overrun with books, scatterered in wobbly towers across tables and too numerous for the stacks that are meant to contain them. For years, a cramped room in Lubavitch HQ in Stamford Hill has been home to the country’s largest Jewish lending library.
This Lag BaOmer, MyShliach is inviting all young shluchim to join a group of Yaldei HaShluchim who will be marching at The Great Parade.
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