Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Eliyahu Yosef and Rochel Leah (nee Mayteles) Morrison (Cincinnati, OH) 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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Mazal Tov! – It’s A Boy!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov Meir and Hadassah (nee Devries) Geisinsky (Cedarhurst, NY) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Mazal Tov! – 3 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!
Yakov Kabacznik (Belem, Brazil) and Luba Merovitch (Toronto, Canada) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Itzik Schwartz (Petach Tikvah, Israel) and Chaya Arad (Migdal Haemek, Israel) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave].
Sholom Gorowitz (Crown Heights) and Mushky Gansbourg (Montreal, Canada)
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Humor: The Most Bizarre Kapores Story Yet!
The following is a press release from an animal shelter claiming to have ‘rescued’ a poor chicken named ‘chesed’ from sacrificial slaughter during Kapores in a Crown Heights seminary. Yes its real, a quick skim through the pages of the shelters website has a saved duck named Mishka, and cow named Nikki.
A unanimous decision reached Tuesday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, granted Chabad of the West Side a Certificate of Appropriateness allowing for construction on two neighboring buildings on West 86th Street between Columbus and Central Park West.
Chabad Wins Approval on Landmark Project
A unanimous decision reached Tuesday by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, granted Chabad of the West Side a Certificate of Appropriateness allowing for construction on two neighboring buildings on West 86th Street between Columbus and Central Park West.
Video of Shliach to France Rabbi Reuven Matusof, showing an field full of citron trees and explaining what is a Kosher Esrog.
Video – Esrogim Murkovim – Spotting an Esrog Tree!
Video of Shliach to France Rabbi Reuven Matusof, showing an field full of citron trees and explaining what is a Kosher Esrog.
traditional call from a hospital room in Berkeley, Calif.
The hospital has its own rituals, I soon discovered, beginning with admissions.
“My husband is Jewish, too,” said the clerk at the Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley, Calif., as I checked in, while glancing at the religious affiliation on the form I had just filled out.
“Is he a good husband?” I asked, at a loss for the right thing to say.
An Improvised Holiday
traditional call from a hospital room in Berkeley, Calif.
Bad enough that my heartbeat went berserk and I had to be hospitalized. But on Rosh Hashanah? And me, an observant Jew?! Not only would I miss the synagogue service I so loved, and not have visitors because they were forbidden to drive, but how could I possibly adhere to the High Holy Day commandments? Sure, God would forgive me — my life was at stake — but I couldn’t bear the thought of ushering in the New Year without its glorious ritual.
The hospital has its own rituals, I soon discovered, beginning with admissions.
“My husband is Jewish, too,” said the clerk at the Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley, Calif., as I checked in, while glancing at the religious affiliation on the form I had just filled out.
“Is he a good husband?” I asked, at a loss for the right thing to say.
Tree Limb Collapse Damages Two Cars
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — With the autumn weather coming in so did a heavy rain come along with it causing a large tree branch to snap and fall on two parked cars and damage them.
Photos: Putting up the Rebbes Sukkah
Moments after Yom Kippur ended the large panels of the Rebbes Sukkah were brought and assembled in front of 770.
Community Marks Rabbis First Yohrtzeit
PARIS, France [CHI] — Hundreds gathered on Sunday in Paris to mark the first yahrtzeit of Rabbi Hillel Pewsner OBM, Rov of the Lubavitch community in France.
Photos: Breaking the Fast outside 770
Kiddush Levana, Rain and food capped off Yom Kippur of 5770 outside of 770. Food provided by Nachum Markowitz, who himself didn’t eat until everyone was fed.
Atone with the iPhone.
A new iPhone application pictured allows users to type personal prayers into their phones, which are printed out by a rabbi in Jerusalem and placed in the Western Wall, just in time for Yom Kippur.
iPhoning Jews heed God’s Call
Atone with the iPhone.
A new iPhone application pictured allows users to type personal prayers into their phones, which are printed out by a rabbi in Jerusalem and placed in the Western Wall, just in time for Yom Kippur.
ABC — On the first Yom Kippur since his multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme was exposed, Bernard Madoff was allowed to take the day off from his prison work detail at Butner prison in North Carolina and pray for forgiveness of his sins, according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson.
Bernard Madoff’s Yom Kippur: ‘He Can’t Be Forgiven’
ABC — On the first Yom Kippur since his multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme was exposed, Bernard Madoff was allowed to take the day off from his prison work detail at Butner prison in North Carolina and pray for forgiveness of his sins, according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson.
Please say Tehilim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Bracha Basya Esther bas Miriam
Miril Gitel bas Chana
Chaim Yehuda ben Tova
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shimon and Meira (nee Kaner) Emlen (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
