MONSEY, NY — This past Thursday Cheder Chabad of Monsey’s 8th grade class journeyed north to camp out and explore the Minnewaska State Park and Mohonk Preserve.
The 8th Grade Class along with their Rebbi, Rabbi Yossi Sobel and Cheder Administrator & Trip Guide, Gershon Sandler arrived at the camp site and set up their tents.
It is nearly a year and a half since the government’s immigration raid on the Agriprocessors Plant in Postville, IA. This started a chain reaction that eventually brought bankruptcy to the company, and the interruption of the Shechita in Postville, the effects of which have been felt all over the world. The tidal wave of problems that began in Postville was most strongly felt in the New York Metropolitan Area where the price of Glatt Kosher meat rose at least 25% in the wake of the raid.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy Piekarski (Crown Heights) and Dina Liberow (Brazil) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Monday at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Daniel Goldberg (Seattle, WA) and Shayna Grossman (Chicago, IL) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Presented by Sameach Music and produced by Avi Newmark, this has been one of the most anticipated albums in recent memory, featuring 12 tracks sure to satisfy all musical palettes.
A variety of talented artists team up to bring you this masterful musical production. Selections include compositions from such famed composers as Yitzy Waldner and Elimelech Blumstein, and relative newcomers like Meshulum Greenberger and Oriel Avraham. Arrangers range from Good ol’ Mona and Moshe Laufer to the always incredible Leib Yaakov Rigler and Avremi G, along with some great surprises from Ian Freitor, the album’s engineer.
ENGLAND — Six years after their arrival to serve the Jewish student population at England’s Cambridge University and provide additional services to the wider community, an independent synagogue in the college town has formally appointed Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Reuven and Rochel Leigh as the institution’s resident rabbi and rebbetzin.
NEW YORK — If you feel the earth move under your feet, it just might be the cops.
The NYPD is equipping its police cars with a new high-tech siren that you will not only hear but also feel.
It’s called the Rumbler, and its aim is to grab the attention of even the most distracted cellphone-yakking, text-messaging or headphone-addled pedestrian or motorist.
After the Yankees clinched the American League Championship in a 5-2 victory of the Angles in the Bronx last night, Mayor Rudi Rudy Giuliani and Beis Shmuel president Moshe Pinson posed for a photo together.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Dovie Best (Crown Heights) and Sara Tzedek Shneerson (Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Gathering together for the first-ever Northeastern Intercollegiate Shabbaton – a weekend program stressing Jewish pride and unity sponsored by area Chabad-Lubavitch centers and the Chabad on Campus International Foundation – some 500 college students bonded and shared stories of maintaining Jewish life in bastions of academia.
For the first time, JLI’s Advanced Learning Initiative, MyShiur is now available to Anash in the Crown Heights community in a special shiur presented by the course author. The new course, Explorations in Talmud: Tractate Shabbat, is geared to students without any prior Gemorah experience as well as to seasoned learners. It will include an examination of the biblical sources for the 39 melachot as well as a foundational study of underlying principles that define the term melachah.
JERUSALEM — The offices of Yad Vashem, the Israeli agency that memorializes the six million Jews murdered by their Nazis and their allies, received an extraordinary and even infuriating proposal recently. The grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the notorious commander of the Auschwitz death camp, offered to sell some of his grandfather’s personal effects to the museum.
MONROE, NY [CHI] — The Jewish Women’s Circle, led by Chana Burston, director of Chabad of Orange County, recently held its opening event of the year. Attended by over thirty women from throughout the county, participants learned the art of silk painting & designed magnificent challah covers with Courtni Hale of Sheer D Lite. Chana Burston led an interactive learning group with the theme of Shabbat, entitled, “Sanctifying Time and Space.” All enjoyed a hearty soup bar with condiments.
Were it not for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, there might be no Google.
Thirty years ago today, Sergey Brin, a 6-year-old Soviet boy facing an uncertain future, arrived in the United States with the help of the society.
NEW YORK [CBS] — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has broken his own spending record from four years ago, dropping $85.2 million so far on his campaign for a third term.
The billionaire spent $85 million on his re-election in 2005, and $74 million on his first bid for office in 2001.
BROOKLYN — Crime is down so far this year across the city, but some Brooklyn neighborhoods have seen a surge of shootings, NYPD statistics show.
There were 240 gunshot victims in South Brooklyn through early October, up from 179 during the same period in 2008 because of a spike in violence in Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Coney Island.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to JJ and Shaina Munitz (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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