Following the outstanding success of their first Mens event, woman turned for Lubavitcher Yeshivas Auction, and enjoyed a beautiful evening with food, inspiration and comedy.
Winners:
Mens night winner $1,000 raffles – Namdar
Admission – Mrs. Levine
Jackpot – Gavriel Friedman
Split the pot – Hudi Slater
$15,000 – Tammy Chayempour
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Leah is a young and vibrant wife and mother living in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Aliza is a middle aged grandmother of twenty six living in Bnei Brak. The two might never have met except for the fact that Aliza was ill and desperately in need of a kidney transplant in order to survive. Leah was determined to be a donor and to save someone else’s life. And that’s how these two brave women formed an indelible bond.
A new exhibit at a Jewish archive in New York City is shedding light on the dissemination of religious material in the days before the printing press.
Comprised of old manuscripts, fading marriage certificates and handwritten editions of the Talmud – once consigned to be nothing more than filler for the bindings of printed books – the display at the central Chabad-Lubavitch library in Brooklyn represents the collective discovery of staff members cataloguing the library’s vast holdings.
Symmes Township, IL — Jack Greenberg, of Symmes Township, throws himself one heck of a birthday party every year: lunch and limousine service for 37 friends and their guests, a nice speech about himself, group photographs, and gifts of $1,500 for each invitee.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zalman and Raizy (nee Roston) Mendelsohn (Shluchim to Jackson, WY) on the birth of their daughter.
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May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmuly and Chani Rothman (Pittsburgh, PA) ) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
The surviving members of a family ripped apart by a suicide bomber’s blast extracted some measure of consolation from the tragedy by dedicating a Torah to a synagogue and community center in Sweden.
For the more than 100 people who paraded the holy scroll through the streets of Gothenburg and on to the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch center, the celebration reflected a mix of emotions. On the one hand, it brought back the sorrow and pain experienced eight years ago by the Schijveschuurder family when a Palestinian terrorist targeted a popular Jerusalem pizzeria.
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has sent its officers to 11 cities around the globe — even once dispatching a husband and wife to Abu Dhabi. But the return from the world has been far greater.
Of the 5,593 officers hired since July 2006, when the department began tracking the nationalities of police officers, 1,042 of them were foreign-born — hailing from 88 countries, according to department records.
NEW YORK — Here’s the latest smack on taxpayers.
The city spent $32,000 on 70,000 fliers that tell you how to shoot heroin, complete with detailed tips on prepping the dope and injecting it into your arm.
The Health Department handout has outraged New York’s top drug prosecutors and abuse experts.
Last Wednesday, Gimel Tevet marked the birthday of Rabbi Yossi Raichik, director of Project Children of Chernobyl, who passed away over a year ago. As it was known, Rabbi Raichik was entirely devoted and given over to the activating of Tzeirei Chabad.
During last week, the Jewish Released Time program under the auspices of the NCFJE arranged winter camps for public school children during their winter vacation. Over 120 children attended the Brooklyn and Queens camps.
Captured on an infrared surveillance camera, which monitors the entrance to 742 Montgomery Street, an eerily lit picture shows the couple returning home on Motzai Shabbos, and apparently held the door open for their assailants.
Hundreds of men gathered Motzai Shabbos in order to support a local mossad, United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street. There was a special viewing of the auction prizes, and men had an opportunity to purchase tickets and go for items.
A group of campers in Camp Gan Israel in Barcelona, Spain posing for a group picture. The camp is organized by local Shluchim Rabbi Dovid M. M. and his wife Nechama Dina Libersohn.
Stupidity didn’t take a holiday on E. 38th St.
A traffic agent inexplicably hit at least 10 cars parked along a block in Murray Hill with $115 tickets Friday, even though rules were suspended for New Year’s Day.
When confronted by angry drivers, the meterman refused to back down. Instead, he insisted he was following the orders of a supervisor.
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