Mazal Tov Kanarfogel’s! Trpilets! Two Girls and a Boy!
Dovid and Hindy (nee Krinsky) Kanarfogel (Crown Heights) two girls and a boy!
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Mivtza Pesach in Manchester
MANCHESTER, England [CHI] — This year, as a gift to the Rebbe, the Bochurim and Anash distributed over 6000 boxes of packed shmura matzah, five times the amount given out last year, to Jews in Manchester and those spread out in South England.
A local Malibu California newspaper, the Malibu Times, held a youth video competition entitled “Growing Up Malibu” in which contestants submitted short music videos explaining why Malibu is so great. Among the contestants were young Shluchim Dovid and Mendel Cunin who won 1st and 2nd place in the 9 to 13 age rank.
Videos: Young Malibu Shluchim Win Local Competition
A local Malibu California newspaper, the Malibu Times, held a youth video competition entitled “Growing Up Malibu” in which contestants submitted short music videos explaining why Malibu is so great. Among the contestants were young Shluchim Dovid and Mendel Cunin who won 1st and 2nd place in the 9 to 13 age rank.
Video: Singing ‘Vehi Sheomdo’ at a Tzivos Hashem Rally
At a Tzivos Hashem Rally in 1983, following a Sicha from the Rebbe, the crowd broke out and sang ‘Vehi Sheomdo’ with the Rebbe standing and encouraging the song.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky of Montreal, Canada at the age of 94.
Among the founders of the Montreal yeshiva, Rabbi Gerlitzky was among the Temimim who studied in Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Warsaw - the original one, which was founded in the 1920’s, which he fled with a number of other Temimim and ended up in Montreal after being sent there on Shlichus by the Frierdiker Rebbe.
He is survived by his children Sara Mindel Shemtov (Crown Heights), Rivka Eisenbach (Montreal), Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky (Crown Heights), Chaya Laya Berger (Ottawa, Canada), Devorah Rivkin (Tampa, FL), Rabbi Yossi Gerlitzky (Tel Aviv, Israel), Menachem Gerlitzky (Crown Heights), Fraidy Shpigelman (Montreal).
He leaves behind children, grand children, great grand children, and great great grand children and is nicknamed “everyone's grandfather”.
The Levaya will take place today, Sunday, and will be passing by the Yeshiva on Westbury at around 2:30pm.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky of Montreal, Canada at the age of 94.
Among the founders of the Montreal yeshiva, Rabbi Gerlitzky was among the Temimim who studied in Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in Warsaw – the original one, which was founded in the 1920’s, which he fled with a number of other Temimim and ended up in Montreal after being sent there on Shlichus by the Frierdiker Rebbe.
He is survived by his children Sara Mindel Shemtov (Crown Heights), Rivka Eisenbach (Montreal), Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky (Crown Heights), Chaya Laya Berger (Ottawa, Canada), Devorah Rivkin (Tampa, FL), Rabbi Yossi Gerlitzky (Tel Aviv, Israel), Menachem Gerlitzky (Crown Heights), Fraidy Shpigelman (Montreal).
He leaves behind children, grand children, great grand children, and great great grand children and is nicknamed “everyone’s grandfather”.
The Levaya will take place today, Sunday, and will be passing by the Yeshiva on Westbury at around 2:30pm.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
Police Make Arrest in a Series of 7 Burglaries
Friday police made an arrest in connection with a series of burglaries that took place in the outskirts of Crown Heights. The suspect, a black man named Michael Burnett, 44, was taken into custody at 11:00pm on Friday night on Nostrand Avenue and Midwood Street.
Engagement: Noah Pawliger and Chana Wolff
Noah Pawliger (Atlanta, GA) and Chana Wolff (Crown Heights)
Charles Plumb was a US Naval Academy graduate who flew jets in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, he was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Upon ejecting he parachuted into the jungle where the Viet Cong captured him and held him prisoner for six years in North Vietnam. After the war, Charles Plumb lectured on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, when he and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man came up to him and said, “You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”
“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb, the former pilot.
“Well, because I packed your parachute!” replied the stranger. Plumb gasped in surprise. The man pumped his hand and said, “I guess it worked!”
Attitute Of Gratitude – The Virtue Of Light Is In Contrast To The Dark
Charles Plumb was a US Naval Academy graduate who flew jets in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, he was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Upon ejecting he parachuted into the jungle where the Viet Cong captured him and held him prisoner for six years in North Vietnam. After the war, Charles Plumb lectured on lessons learned from that experience.
One day, when he and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man came up to him and said, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!”
“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb, the former pilot.
“Well, because I packed your parachute!” replied the stranger. Plumb gasped in surprise. The man pumped his hand and said, “I guess it worked!”
Photo Gallery: Over 700 at the Seder in Cusco, Peru
CUSCO, Peru [CHI] — It’s not for no reason that Cusco, Peru is known as the ‘Tel Aviv’ of South America. With tens of thousands of Israeli tourists visiting the city each year, almost every street corner is decorated with a sign in Hebrew – the city’s second language.
Last week the city played host to an event that will not be forgotten by tourists and locals alike, an event only Chabad of Cusco could provide; a Pesach Seder for close to a thousand people.
Bochurim Farbreng in Place Tomchei Tmimim Once Stood
A group of Bochurim who have come to Warsaw, Poland on Merkos Shlichus for Pesach, traveled to Otwock (a half hour from Warsaw) where Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim once was before the Second World War.
5 Injured in Friday Morning Crash
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Five people were injured in a Friday morning, among those injured were an infant and a number of children. The incident took place at approximately 11:00am at the intersection of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway, where a left turning SUV broadsided a minivan with a Jewish family.
New Engagement! – Boruch Hecht and Mooka Naparstek!
Boruch Hecht (ben R Yisroel, Los Angeles, CA) and Mooka Naparstek (bas R Shmulik, Agoura Hills, CA)
First Tanya Printing in Monroe, New Jersey
In honor of the 108th birthday of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and final Lubavitcher Rebbe, Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe took part in the campaign to spread Chabad’s fundamental philosophical text by printing 150 copies of Tanya on March 26.
Mazal Tov Shur! – It’s A Boy!
Dovid Leib and Sheina Sarah (nee Abramowitz) Shur (Crown Heights)
