Chabad’s Haiti Relief Aid Reaches Orphans

By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

Please I am hungry. Please give me something to eat.”

HAITI — As Rabbi Shimon Pelman returned to his Santo Domingo home late Monday, the cries from Haiti’s streets pierced his ears. Pelman arrived in the earthquake-shattered capital of Port-au-Prince early that morning with the most basic of supplies. Milk, tuna, sardines, pasta, and medicine filled the cavernous truck. A second truck donated by Chabad arrived in Haiti’s capital Tuesday morning, bearing vegetables and fruit.

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Community Searches for Kidney Donor

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — On Sunday, last week, was an event taken place by the Chesed Center of Ahavas Chesed, headed by Rabbi Lider. It was an experimental event to try to find a match for a kidney donation for one of the residents in our community, Crown Heights. This resident is a father of 9 children that needs urgently a kidney transplant. He is going 3 times a week to dialysis and the doctors are saying that the dialysis is not helping anymore and he needs a transplant.

TRAGEDY: Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Reb Yossi Tevel OBM

With deep sadness and great pain we inform you of the tragic and very untimely passing of Reb Yossi Tevel OBM of Crown Heights.

Reb Yossi passed away early this morning after suffering a stroke on Motzai Shabbos, he leaves behind his wife, Rivkie and children, Zalman (Crown Heights), Mendel, Chana, Shmuel Yitzchok, Mushky Barron (Baltimore, MD) and Yanky, as well as a brother and sister.

The Levaya will take place today, Tuesday, and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadaas Chaples at 11:00am and passing by 770 at around 11:30am.

Boruch Dayan Hoemes

Power Line Accident Prompts Evacuation and Subway Halt

NY Times

Workers installing a gas line into a Brooklyn building accidentally struck a power line that feeds the subway on Monday, sparking electrical explosions that blew manhole covers into the air, disrupted subway service and rattled nerves in a pocket of Brooklyn Heights.

From Pasadena to Rostov-on-Don: A Jewish Family Makes A Radical Move

By Baila Olidort for Lubavitch.com

RUSSIA — Americans across the economic spectrum have radically lowered their living standards in the past two years, in ways many had never anticipated.

For most, it was a matter of numbers, not choice. But one young couple’s decision to give up their car, their home, and the comforts of an all-American life, had nothing at all to do with the economy.

Restored Audio of Farbrengen of Yud Shevat 5711 Released

The Jewish Educational Media has restored the audio of the Farbrengen of Yud Shevat 5711, and has provided it to Vaad Hatmimim to make available to bochurim. On the first Yartzeit of the Frierdiker Rebbe, the Rebbe officially accepted the Nesius and said a Maamer for the first time. The audio was originally found and released around Yud Shevat 5750, celebrating 40 years of the Rebbe’s Nesius. The audio has been restored as a part of the restoration project sponsored by the Rohr family foundation. A Yiddish transcript has also been provided by JEM to assist in learning the Maame and Farbrengen.

24th Of Teves Farbrengen with Rabbi Michoel Seligson

Last week Sunday, a Farbrengen took place at Yeshiva Tiferes Bochurim in Morristown, N.J. with guest speaker Rabbi Michoel Seligson, to commemorate the Alter Rebbe’s Hilulo, passing, on the 24th of Teves, 197 years ago. The Farbrengen went on into the early hours of the morning.

Listen to the Farbrengen:
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A Special Neshama, Leading to a Special Evening

On Motzai Shabbos over 150 people gathered together for a Melava Malka celebrating the starting of a new Sefer Torah. Merkaz Habracha of Flatbush is having the new Sefer written in memory of Bracha Yafit A”H, daughter R’ Yisroel Chein — founder of Merkaz Habracha organization. Sunday, 2 Shevat marked her 21st Yartzeit. The Sefer is scheduled to be completed on 2 Shevat of next year.

Appeal Rejected in Dispute Over Estate

By Brianna Bailey for the Daily Pilot

Jewish center’s leader, Rabbi Reuven Mintz, claims former Rat Pack member wanted to set up foundation in his name.

NEWPORT, CA — The California Supreme Court this week rejected a Jewish organization’s appeal against the estate of Joey Bishop, the late entertainer and member of the “Rat Pack.” But the legal battle over his fortune isn’t over yet, an attorney for the Newport Beach Chabad Center said Friday.

Praise for Israeli Mission in Haiti: ‘Only Ones Operating’

Israeli field hospital earns accolades as only aid mission able to do complex surgery in devastated country. CNN reports other missions transfer patients to Israeli base. ABC reports on young woman giving birth there.