Rabbinical students Leibel Kudan, left, and Bentzion Shemtov knock on the door of an apartment on Sylvania Avenue in Toledo to offer religious education and materials.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — The Jewish Community Center-Chabad of Downtown Los Angeles has had its own space for five months, and it served the community’s Jewish population in temporary locations for approximately a year before that. But in September, the proceedings at what its proprietor calls the first new full-time synagogue in Downtown in 60 years will go to a different level.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Yitzchak ben Devora
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Sheva (Neimark) Shaffran of Montreal, Canada.
She is survived by her husband Pinchus, and children Azriel Boruch (Toronto, Canada), and Yehudis Cattan (Boca Raton, FL).
The Levaya took place today in Laval, Montreal at Mt. Pleasant’s Lubavitch section.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Montgomery Street residents were startled when cries of “help, help!” were shouted late Friday night. The incident took place between Albany and Troy Avenues at around 11:30pm when a Bochur was walking home from a Sholom Zochor, and was surrounded by a group of around 5 Black males of various ages.
One resident told CrownHeights.info that he heard the calls for help and he immediately ran out, sparing the Bochur a beating, and spotted a number of the group fleeing. A number of the residents gave chase and caught two of the group.
CrownHeights.info presents this weeks Living Torah excerpt, “All the Amenities.”
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Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) is inviting residents to come out for a “town hall meeting” in the Jewish Childrens Museum this coming Monday evening to discuss the Healthcare Reform bill titled “H.R. 3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act”, and to learn what is in it for us and how it will affect our families.
“Rabbis with kosher food will travel.”
Such is how Rabbi Mendy Margolin and his brother Rabbi Levi Margolin introduce themselves. They are participants in the Chabad Rabbinical Visitation Programme, and have been visiting the Jewish Community of Bermuda since Tuesday.
The aim of the programme is to travel to remote, isolated Jewish communities where they introduce a vibrant Jewish experience to the local population. Through personal encounters with families and individuals, they inspire meaningful exploration and celebration of Jewish life, identity and traditions. You literally see the Jewish heritage accessible to Jewish people worldwide.
Moammar Gadhafi has been cast out of the Garden (State.)
The Libyan leader will be issued a visa that limits his travel to New York City, a source close to the situation told NBCNewYork.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over eighty boys gathered in Getzel’s Shul these past two weeks to sit and learn. In line with the Rebbe’s words to utilize the summer vacation as an opportunity to strengthen one’s Avodas Hashem, many Bochurim arrived at 8:30am for Chassidus.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmully Lieberman (Flatbush) and Michelle Chandler (Albany, NY) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Sholomke Scharf (Crown Heights) and Mushky Gruzman (Vienna, Austria) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
A man was once accused of a serious crime. The evidence was so incriminating that a guilty verdict was all but inevitable. “Your only hope,” advised his lawyer “is to enter a plea of insanity; but you must remember to act crazy in court.”
The man followed his lawyer’s counsel and put on a great act. He made the strangest sounds as he twitched his head and thrashed his hands. So well had he performed, that the case was soon dismissed.
To his utter dismay, when the lawyer came to collect his fee, the man resumed his ridiculous gig; strange motions and all. He soon realized that he had become the butt of his own ploy – his expert advice had come back to bite him.
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After a long day of disasters and mishaps, due to inattentiveness and neglect, the exhausted victim could take it no more. “Why,” he cried in exasperation, “Do things that happen to morons keep happening to me?!”
Rabbi/band leader Menachem Schmidt has seen Philly’s Lubavitch community grow to new heights. But is its progressive orthodoxy too good to be true?
An Orthodox synagogue sits across the street from an abandoned lot on Poplar and North American streets, and on a cool May night, the members of that synagogue use it to throw what is undoubtedly the biggest party in Northern Liberties. The occasion is Lag B’Omer, one of the more obscure Jewish holidays, and the Philadelphia leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect of Judaism had decided to celebrate by lighting an enormous bonfire, serving Miller High Life and cooking kosher barbecue. Next to the bonfire, a bongo line forms, the drums beat by casually dressed youth while Hasidic Jews, dressed in traditional black suits and fedoras with long scraggly beards, drink and chat around them while children throw detritus into the fire.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yossi Lasry (Brunoy, France) and Ari Amar (Ormond Beach, FL) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
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