For the 7 weeks of sefira, MyShliach has launched the Pirkei Avos Learning contest. Every week there will be a sicha to download and learn for that week’s Perek of Pirkei Avos.
Chabad of Kentucky, now marking its 25th year in the Commonwealth, has hired Rabbi Chaim Litvin, the son of Rabbi Avrohom and Golda Litvin, to assist with its operations and programming.
In Brooklyn, a gentle clash over unkosher food and bike lanes.
WILLIAMSBURG — Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is home to two of New York’s most devout, and sometimes conflicting, religious sects. Inhabiting the South section of the neighborhood are the Hasidim. Often referred to as simply the Satmars, the name of their particular religious sect (which began in Hungary), they represent one of the largest communities of ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York. Their modest dress—black pants, white shirts, fur streimel hats even in the summer—is straight out of 18th-century Eastern Europe. The men keep sidecurls, the women cover their hair, and everybody prays. Yiddish is spoken; knishes are eaten.
Issie Rabinowitz is determined to spend the little time he believes he has left helping strangers, whether they reside in his hometown of Ottawa, Canada, or halfway around the globe in the third-world.
Toyota has recalled another 870,000 vehicles in North America, this time over concerns that spare tyres could fall onto the road due to a corroding cable.
While vehicle recalls are commonplace and affect all carmakers, Toyota is under intense scrutiny in the wake of a series of damaging incidents involving sticky accelerator pedals, out-of-place floor-mats and erratic braking systems.
He may have never told a lie, but George Washington apparently had no problem stiffing a Manhattan library on two books.
Two centuries ago, the nation’s first President borrowed two tomes from the New York Society Library on E. 79th St. and never returned them, racking up an inflation-adjusted $300,000 late fee.
Boruch Hecht (ben R Yisroel, Los Angeles, CA) and Mooka Naparstek (bas R Shmulik, Agoura Hills, CA)
IYH at Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Damoon (Rachamim) Nikaiyin (Torrance, CA) and Miriam Levy – Chaim (Crown Heights)
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Levi Popack (Crown Heights) and Shterni Lezell (Crown Heights)
IYH 5:30 to 7:30pm at 1365 Carroll St [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
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Damoon (Rachamim) Nikaiyin (Torrance, CA) and Miriam Levy – Chaim (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at FREE
1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Levi Popack (Crown Heights) and Shterni Lezell (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Sunday, 5:30 to 7:30pm at 1365 Carroll St
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Chava Devorah Shusterman of Chicago, IL.
The Nifteres is survived by her children Tibadlu Lechaim Tovim: Rabbi Shmarya Shusterman, Chicago, IL; Rabbi Yisroel Shusterman, Monsey, NY; Rabbi Yosef Y. Shusterman, Beverly Hills, CA; Rabbi Mendel Shusterman, Melbourne, Aust., and Mrs. Sori Galperin, Detroit, MI
Also survived by her brothers and sisters: Rebbetzin Ruthie Hecht, New Haven, CT; Rabbi Yosef Krinsky, CH, NY; Rabbi Pinchas Krinsky, Boston, MA; Rebbetzin Sophie Goodman, Chicago, IL, Mrs. Yocheved Goldberg, Boston, MA; Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Krinsky, CH, NY and many children and great-grandchildren, KA”H.
The Levaya will be passing 770 at 1:00pm Sunday at then will proceed to the Ohel
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership, CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a new series of photos of Lag B’Omer parades with the Rebbe taken over the years, during which thousands of children of all backgrounds would gather on Eastern Parkway, Chabad headquarters, for the highlight: the Rebbe’s special address to the Children. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
At middle age I have come to accept my limitations. Although I like to have an opinion on almost everything, I am conscious of the fact that I am not a legal scholar and do not understand all the complexities of the criminal case against Shalom Rubashkin, the former CEO of America’s largest kosher meat plant, Agriprocessors of Postville, Iowa.
But I am not a stupid man either. And I, and a heck of a lot of other fairly intelligent and educated people are scratching our heads as to why government prosecutors are requesting that Rubashkin, who has ten children, including an autistic son, and a reputation for enormous philanthropy, be given a life sentence in prison.
A life behind bars. The very words are ominous. Isn’t that reserved for society’s most heinous offenders? Life sentence has one conjuring images of rapists and murderers, international drug cartel kingpins and white-collar criminals guilty of gargantuan fraud, like Bernie Madoff.
LIVINGSTON, NJ — Friendship Circle of New Jersey has won a 2010 Aegis Award for “Mindsets”, a 4 minute video produced by JewishFilms.com. The Aegis Awards are the video industry’s premier competition for peer recognition of outstanding video productions and non-network TV commercials. “Mindsets” was honored by a distinguished panel of judges representing industry professionals from across the country.
Among the souvenirs that tourists bring back from a visit to Prague are little clay figures of the Golem – a giant linked to one of Prague’s best known legends. What few of them know is that there is a fierce battle underway for ownership rights, which has sent a much larger version of the clay monster into hiding.
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