Video produced by Chabad.org. A preview of the stimulating and moving events of the month of Tishrei, the Jewish New Year. Visit JewishNewyear.org for more about the High Holidays.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Avremel Matusof (Madison, WI) and Mushky Schapiro (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Monday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
MONTREAL, Canada [CHI] — An inspiring and truly memorable Hakhel gathering took place on Sunday, 24 Elul (September 13th), in the Beth Rivkah Montreal auditorium. The event, an Alumni Reunion, was b”h an outstanding success and was attended by 200 former students and teachers. The participants were left with elevated spirits and a desire for more reunions in the future.
GREENSBORO, NC — Women are given three special assignments in sacred Jewish texts — and Marianna Mintz is nearly elbow deep in eggs, water, yeast and more than a dozen cups of flour to fulfill one of them.
JERUSALEM, Israel — The commandment to “be fruitful and multiply” the Krishevsky family follows quite closely. Last Saturday, the great grandmother, Rachel Krishevsky passed away at the age of 99, leaving behind no less than 1,400 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren.
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The FDNY is responding to fires faster than ever, and there have been fewer deaths this year than ever before.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Eli and Henya (nee Wolowik) Muller (Montreal, Quebec) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The Crown Heights Debate Club hosted their kickoff event Thursday at Mimulo Flower Shop, addressing the agunah crisis in a new and innovative fashion. With a shared message of calling the community to action, the panel consisted of Mrs. Bronya Shaffer, resident scholar on AskMoses.com and Ask-the-Rabbi respondent for Chabad.org, and Jeremy Stern, director of case management at the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA).
A French Jewish man in Paris pictured with a mammoth Esrog. It is unknown where this citron is from or if it is even Kosher. However the owner of this gigantic Esrog claims it is the largest Esrog known to man.
Pictures from the Wedding of Yanky Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Mushka Goldberger (Crown Heights) that took place Tuesday at the Oholei Torah ballroom. Photos by Alex Gorokhov (Glatt & Art Photography).
Rabbi Yosef Slavin of JabadTube, Shliach to Venezuela, produces a weekly 3 minute Dvar Torah in Spanish on YouTube. It is sent throughout Venezuela and Spanish speakers worldwide. For Rosh Hashana he made a special Shana Tova video starring his Kids, Mendel, Dov, Shua and Leibel.
The video is in Spanish and has English subtitles. Enjoy!
MUMBAI [AFP] — A man on Wednesday told an Indian court trying a Pakistani national over the 2008 Mumbai attacks how he escaped with his life after confronting two heavily-armed extremists with just a bamboo stick.
Security guard Kamal Singh said he rushed to the Nariman House Jewish cultural centre in the Colaba district of south Mumbai on the night of November 26 last year after hearing shots.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yosef and Shoshy (nee Krafchik) Vidal (Montreal, Canada) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
Shacharis 6:30amHamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
Mincha/Maariv 6:45pm
The Weisel family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their mother, Mildred Weisel OBM (Malka Fraida Bas Boruch Bentzion).
Her children, Yehudis DuBrow, Mimi Weisel-Homburg, Eva Gail Bressler and Bernie Weisel are sitting Shiva at the DuBrow home, 1518 S Durango Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90035 (the pico robertson side). Stop by from 8:00am until 9:30pm.
Shacharis 6:30am
Mincha/Maariv 6:45pm
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
TARZANA, CA [CHI] — Chabad of Valley held a beautiful barbeque dinner Sunday evening at the Braemar Country Club. Celebrating the Gan Israel scholarship raffle with popular comedian Steve Mittleman.
WINNIPEG — Plans to build a new Jewish Learning Centre in Winnipeg’s south end just got a $640,000 boost from the federal and provincial governments.
Winnipeg South Tory MP Rod Bruinooge announced $320,000 for the centre Sunday under Ottawa’s new shovel-ready infrastructure stimulus fund. The province matched the amount.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute are proud to present a beautiful photo of the Rebbe from the N’shei Chabad convention in 1990. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
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