The Chabad Terror Victims Project took a group of injured soldiers from recent Israeli battles to Australia for a special vacation. They landed yesterday with Rabbi Yossi Swerdlov of Chabad’s Terror Victims Project who is accompanying them on the trip. In the Extended Article he recounts their experiences so far.
MELBOURNE, Australia [CHI] — Chabad of Melbourne CBD was honored to have Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan address their Businessman’s Luncheon this week.
The Shliach of the Chabad House, Rabbi Chaim Herzog introduced Rabbi Kaplan of Baltimore, Maryland, saying that he is, in fact, no stranger to Melbourne, having attended the Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand in the early 1970’s.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Menachem Mendel ben Chana Pesel
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shneur and Yocheved Minsky (Crown Heights) 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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CrownHeights.info presents this weeks Living Torah excerpt, “Youth Movement”!
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Ahavas Chesed Blood Drive today, Thursday, July 2nd from 2:00pm untill 9:00pm. At the Ahavas Chesed Center at 271 Kingston Ave, [between Lincoln Place and St Johns Place].
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Friday and Saturday, July 3-4, for the observance of Independence Day. Because Independence Day is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended on Friday and Saturday. 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”).
Click here for the 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
Pictures of the first day of Camp Gan Israel Detroit. In this gallery you can view pictures of the campers coming off the busses, then the head counselors introducing the campers to their counselors and the first lineup.
JLI has released a new course on the vessels in the Beis HaMikdosh for Shluchim to deliver during the three weeks Bein HaMeitzarim in keeping with the Rebbe’s directive. Heaven on Earth: Timeless Vessels, Timely Lessons is a follow up to last year’s successful course on the Beis HaMikdosh’s structure. The new series provides the Kabbalistic viewpoint on the vessels inside it. The in-depth study will teach Students to apply the lessons derived from the Keilim to progress in their personal lives and better the world around them.
Close to 80 Shluchim and Shluchos participated in a two day conference that helped mark the unique success that Chabad Shluchim have had with The Friendship Circle. A phenomenal idea, a distinctive approach, why has it been impossible for other organizations to duplicate this unparalleled success of the Shluchim?
“What is so unique about pairing teen volunteers with special children?” many ask.
This video is graphic! Don’t watch if you don’t have the stomach for it.
CrownHeights.info presents a 12 minute and 31 seconds video of excerpts from a the English Channel 4 show about the terror in Mumbai. In this video you can listen to many conversations between the terrorists and their handlers. In one conversation the handlers say that Jewish blood is worth more and to go after the Chabad House. “As I told you, every person you kill where you are is worth 50 of the ones killed elsewhere.”
Today, Tes Tammuz we mark the first Yartzeit of Chana bas R’ Aharon Leib, Chana (Raskin) Wolvovsky.
Last year, in honor of Chana’s Shloishim, a beautiful song was written entitled “A Gift From Above”. The song was recorded by Avraham Fried at Chony Milecki Studios.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A bicycle riding serial pervert is roaming the streets of Crown Heights, and is accosting Jewish woman. Last night during the evening hours 4 woman were attacked, by being hit inappropriately, in the course of 20 to 30 minutes. One of them required medical attention, and was treated by Hatzalah.
Shomrim received calls from 4 different victims, all women of various ages, and the first one coming in at approximately 10:00pm on Tuesday evening, then again within 10 minutes of each other. Many Shomrim members responded to the call and quickly fanned out across the neighborhood in attempt to identify and apprehend the perpetrator.
MIAMI [CBS4] — One of South Florida’s oldest Jewish institutions is on the verge of disappearing; regions Bank is foreclosing on the Lubavitch Education Center.
The school is responsible for educating hundreds of children, as well as rabbis, often for free. Tuesday night the school’s director told CBS4’s David Sutta they will not go down without a fight.
BROOKLYN, NY — The city’s first Hasidic cop was excoriated in a anti-Semitic rant by a dog-loving subway passenger who allegedly refused to place her sick pet in an animal carrier, sources and a witness said yesterday.
Brooklyn blogger Chrissie Brodigan claimed Officer Joel Witriol went ballistic when he saw her take her pug, Dempsey, out of her purse in violation of subway regulations at around 5:30 p.m. Monday. She said he cuffed her, insulted her and roughed her up.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute is pleased to present a beautiful collection of photos from the N’shei Chabad Jewish Women’s Convention, Iyar 25, 1990. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit www.Portraitofaleader.org
Special thanks to Rabbi Yossi Lew and The Rebbe Archive for the pictures.
Jewish residents from across the state of Michigan joined a veteran Israeli diplomat to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.
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