TZFAT, Israel [CHI] — In his last visit to Tzfat Rabbi Joseph Gutnick visited the Mikvah in Kiriyat Chabad which he sponsored over 25 years ago, and he commissioned the renovation and refurbishment of the aging Mikvah.
BROOKLYN, NY — A hate-monger blanketed a stretch of a Brooklyn neighborhood with “Kill Jews” notes Wednesday – weeks after a similar incident in two other communities.
Residents along Third Ave. in Bay Ridge woke up to find hundreds of two-inch handwritten signs bearing the ugly message in black marker.
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — At the “Stand for Freedom in Iran Rally” Thursday, September 24th, a diverse cross-section of Americans and Iranians, from high school students to senior citizens, spanning religious sects of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presence at the 64th General Assembly.
Similar to a tag sale, yet without price tags, clothing and accessories are available for the taking in front of Mr. Clean’s Cleaners on Albany Avenue in Crown Heights today until 7:00pm.
What’s a submariner at sea to do on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur without a prayer book? Shortly before the Jewish New Year set in, Chabad representative to Norfolk, VA, Rabbi Levi Brashevitsky, received the following email from U.S. submariner Brian Lantz, stationed on the USS Norfolk (SSN 714) submarine, homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. The Chabad rabbi directed the letter to KEHOT, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house.
A last-minute crisis was staved off last week at JEM. Toward the end of last week, the new film for children, My Land, was slated for release.
The boxes of thousands of DVDs arrived at JEM as scheduled and was randomly tested by the staff, to make sure they were in working order. To their horror, all the DVDs were blank! After investigating, they discovered that the company which duplicates the DVDs had erroneously copied a blank DVD thinking it was the master.
Did you know that on Chol Hamoed we limit work so we can have more time to learn Torah?
It’s Easy!
CownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is happy to present a first time released Photo of the Rebbe from Kos Shell Bracha in the early 1980’s. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
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.
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.
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!
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.
Video of Shliach to France Rabbi Reuven Matusof, showing an field full of citron trees and explaining what is a Kosher Esrog.
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.
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.
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