About me: I am a young Shliach living in queens. I go to school in Crown Heights. I think Crown Heights is the coolest place on earth.
The following is the third gallery that was submitted to our Photo Competition, depicting “Our Beautiful Community”.
To learn more or join the competition visit awarmfocus.org
The Yeshiva Gedola Lubavitch in London announced that they are the first Yeshiva in the UK to be granted a license by the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) to sponsor students for study at their Yeshiva.
As the days get warmer it becomes time to tend to the yards. Reb Leibel Swerdlov, a Crown Street resident, took advantage of the nice Sunday weather and tended to his yard.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Futerfas (1906-1995), known informally as Reb Mendel, was a famous Chabad Mashpia. He was a top student of the famed Mashpia, Reb Zalman Moishe HaYitzchaki. He was known for telling stories, particularly from his incarceration, and deriving lessons from everything he heard and saw there.
Two hours before Shabbos police closed off President Street between Troy and Albany Avenues. Officers clad in armor and armed with assault rifles converged on 1499 President Street, in search of evidence of two suspects who are accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old black girl. They are accused of holding her captive there for two weeks, and assaulting her repeatedly.
“The Chabad House Compass” – a magazine for shluchim by shluchim, has been published by Merkos Suite 302, designed to help shluchim – “navigate the world of shlichus”.
As the network of Shluchim continues to grow, the request for a forum in print where shluchim can connect and share their experiences was put forth.
Motti and Temmi (nee Kornfeld) Hadar (Johannesburg, South Africa)
On Sunday May 16, 2010, over 20,000 viewers representing the Jewish community from countries around the globe are expected to commune at TorahCafe.com for a webcast featuring Rabbi Shaar Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Israel, in a lecture titled “One Nation Under G-d.”
Let us sit together and ponder. We’ll come up with ideas on how to achieve Achdus.
WRONG!
We are approaching the issue backward!
Why do we crave Achdus? What truly unifies us? Simple — our Neshamas are all part of one unit and therefore we intuitively crave Achdus. Intuitively, we feel fragmented without Achdus.
Practically, what is the key to expressing the Neshamah’s desire for Achdus? Torah and Halacha. Simply put, adherence to Halacha unifies Yidden. Without Halacha as our guide, all efforts for peace will at best be temporary. Halacha creates true homogeny and guides us to a single cause. Why do we eat food that has a Hasgachah from a Rav that belongs to a community that is very different from us socially and ideologically? Because we share common ground –Halacha.
The man at the center of the 1991 Crown Heights riot now lives incognito in a New Jersey town, untroubled by memories of his terrible deed.
“Up until today, I left it alone,” Lemrick Nelson Jr., now 34, told The Post. “I don’t even think about it.”
“That was 19 years ago,” he said about fatally stabbing Hasid scholar Yankel Rosenbaum at the height of the notorious race riot. “I was a kid then. I made a mistake. Kids make mistakes. I’m a man now. I’ve never been in or out of trouble. I don’t live that life.”
Chezky and Chanah’le (nee Sossonko) Altein (Crown Heights)
Meir and Chanie (nee Kanelsky) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
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