Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Peretz and Michal Shapiro (Shluchim to Dallas, TX) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Friday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Friday, December 25. Because it is is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended.
On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).
The 2010 alternate side parking (street cleaning) rules suspension calendar is available now, click below.
At McGill University, Students Host Inaugural Shabbat Dinner
On a recent Friday night, Rabbi Shmuly Weiss and his wife Rashi were guests in their own Montreal home. Roles were reversed as university students at Chabad of McGill became the masters of ceremony during the Inaugural Host Shabbat Dinner.
It was up to the students to create a menu, choose the night’s theme, and make Kiddush to “try to inspire the crowd,” Weiss says. “I’m on the backburner; I’m one of the guests.”
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Refael Peretz Rivkin, 6 year old son of Shimon and Sternie Rivkin (Rivkin Yerakot) of Kfar Chabad Israel.
Three weeks ago Peretz contacted with a virus that spread to his brain.
His levaya was held today at 6:00 in Kfar Chabad.
His family is sitting shiva in their home in Kfar Chabad.
Baruch Dayan Emes.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Refael Peretz HaKohen Rivkin OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Refael Peretz Rivkin, 6 year old son of Shimon and Sternie Rivkin (Rivkin Yerakot) of Kfar Chabad Israel.
Three weeks ago Peretz contacted with a virus that spread to his brain.
His levaya was held today at 6:00 in Kfar Chabad.
His family is sitting shiva in their home in Kfar Chabad.
Baruch Dayan Emes.
Over the last few days a text message has been spreading around the Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush about “a 3-year-old boy being abducted by a man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse”, is confirmed to be a hoax and has appeared via text messages along with Twitter and other social networking sites as much as 4 months ago.
Fake ‘Child Abduction’ Text Message Circulating
Over the last few days a text message has been spreading around the Jewish communities in Crown Heights, Boro Park, and Flatbush about “a 3-year-old boy being abducted by a man driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse”, is confirmed to be a hoax and has appeared via text messages along with Twitter and other social networking sites as much as 4 months ago.
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Religious Jews have long experimented with ways to maintain their observance despite the advent of technology. Chabad Lubavitch's AskMoses.com allows visitors to chat with a Jewish scholar every day except on the Sabbath and holidays. Rabbi Simcha Backman says the Web site is a form of outreach.
Audio: AskMoses on NPR
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Religious Jews have long experimented with ways to maintain their observance despite the advent of technology. Chabad Lubavitch’s AskMoses.com allows visitors to chat with a Jewish scholar every day except on the Sabbath and holidays. Rabbi Simcha Backman says the Web site is a form of outreach.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zevi Greenwald Crown Heights) and Cheved Lew (London, UK) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!
Crownheights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy and Rochel (nee Baumgarten) Goldberg (Coram, NY) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Eli and Rachel (nee Denburg) Kornfeld (Clinton, NJ) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy and Dinie (nee Lipskier) Mangel (Cherry Hill, NJ) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Avi Shlomo (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chanee Vigler (Johannesburg, South Africa) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzei Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Yeshivas Tiferes Bachurim Honor Roll on Hey Teves
MORRISTOWN, NJ — On the 5th of Teves there was an Honor Roll Book Presentation made. Some 39 students who volunteered to do extra study in connection with the 19th of Kislev (the Chassidic New Year) were rewarded a memento to encourage their accomplishments. Then at the end, a grand Raffle was made by Rabbi Brafman (the Rosh Kolel) to award two students with various sets of books.
Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yosef and Bracha (nee Ringler) Huber (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Have a Mazal Tov you want to share? Email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
ULYOP 5th Annual Chanukah Winter Ski Camp
It’s 7:00 am, students of ULYOP & Hamasifta gather in Crown Heights to meet at their home away from home, United Lubavitch Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway. At the same time the school’s talmidim from Flatbush, Queens, and Brooklyn heights are trekking towards the same goal. After the day’s Tanya and a hardy breakfast the vans are loaded, at 9:12am their over 200 mile journey to snow covered Saratoga Springs began. For yet another unforgettable Shabbos & Chanukah by Rabbi Avraham Abba Rubin, the Rebbes shliach to Saratoga Springs.
Preparing crepes at the Jewish Discovery Center Chanukah brunch are Bluma Pinson, Chayie Caplan. - Abington Journal/C.R. Woronchuk
On Sunday, Dec.13, the Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, PA, hosted a special Chanukah brunch. The event was complete with crepes, latkes, smoked fish and lox, crafts, games and fun for all ages, including the Wheel of Fortune Chanukah game show hosted by Rabbi Benny Rapoport.
Chanukah at Chabad is about Tradition of Learning, Fun
On Sunday, Dec.13, the Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, PA, hosted a special Chanukah brunch. The event was complete with crepes, latkes, smoked fish and lox, crafts, games and fun for all ages, including the Wheel of Fortune Chanukah game show hosted by Rabbi Benny Rapoport.
This video is brought to you by OTEG of Oholei Torah for the PTA.
Credit to: Levi Avtzon, Mendel Stilerman, Mendal Greisman, Aharon Liberow, Peretz Garelik, and Yossi Briyski
A Special Hay Teves Video by Oholei Torah
This video is brought to you by OTEG of Oholei Torah for the PTA.
Credit to: Levi Avtzon, Mendel Stilerman, Mendal Greisman, Aharon Liberow, Peretz Garelik, and Yossi Briyski
“The Rebbe Owes The Chassid Total Loyalty”
On the fifth of Tevet, 5747 (1987), U.S. Federal Court issued a decision in favor of Agudas Chassidei Chabad (“Union of Chabad Chassidim”) regarding the ownership of the priceless library of the 6th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. The ruling was based on the idea that a Rebbe is not a private individual but a communal figure synonymous with the body of Chassidim.
