CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This afternoon, Wednesday, the students and teachers of United Lubavitcher Yeshivah on Crown St celebrated the birthday of their principal, Rabbi Simpson. During lunch he gave out chocolates to all the boys while they sang Chashidishe Nigunim. During the singing, Rabbi Karp surprised him with a beautiful birthday cake.
CROWN HEIGHTS — President of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Leonel Fernandez visited the international headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn, Tuesday evening, where he met with the leadership of the movement.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Ben Tzion Lipsker, the head Shliach in Arad, Israel. He passed today, Wednesday afternoon in an Israeli hospital. Rabbi Lipsker, 65 passed after battling a serious illness.
In addition to being the head Shliach in Arad, Rabbi Lipsker served as the chief rabbi of the city and also served in the Chabad Rabbinical Bais Din in Israel.
He is survived by his wife Sarah and his children, Chana Mendelson (Arad, Israel), Esther Druk (Omrim, Israel), Rut Hilman (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Nechamah Kozlovsky (Kfar Chabad, Israel). And his brothers, Zalmen Lipsker (Philadelphia, PA) and Eli Lipsker (Crown Heights).
The Levaya will be Thursday at 10am at his home in Arad. He will be buried on Mount Olives in Jerusalem.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
Douglas County, smack dab in the middle of Colorado’s fastest-growing Jewish community, got its first permanent synagogue in the grand opening of the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of South Metro Denver.
NEW YORK [REUTERS] — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was having a tent pitched on suburban New York property owned by Donald Trump on Tuesday until local officials stopped the work because it violated regulations, a town attorney said.
FOX NEWS — Germany’s foreign ministry is sending a clear message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ahead of his Wednesday speech to the United Nations — don’t deny the Holocaust.
If the rogue Iranian leaders does in fact make such a statement before the General Assembly, German diplomats will walk out. And Germany wants other European Union countries to follow, the foreign ministry was quoted by Reuters.
Nosson Tzvi Abrams (Flatbush) and Miriam Mathless (New Haven, CT)
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!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Zalmy and Chani (nee Schectman) Simon (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Melly and Eidel (nee Majerczyk) Pinson (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Tal and Miriam (nee Aintabi) Levy (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn twin daughters.
May the newborns be a source of Nachas to their parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Mendy Fischweicher (Miami, FL) and Leah Wajsbort (Melbourne, Australia) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Kuti amd Esti Feldman (Crown Heights) 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 to Dovid and Devora Rochel (nee Munitz) Herszberg (Melbourne, Australia) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yossi and Malky (nee Palace) Mizrachi (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
ISRAEL — Police neutralized two explosive devices found separately in Yavne and Kfar Chabad on Tuesday.
The devices are not linked and are believed to be criminally-motivated, a police spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post.
In a press release sent out today, PETA is advocating the use of money for the Kappores ritual, which customarily calls for a chicken, and is performed by tens of thousands of Jews worldwide for the upcoming Yom Kippur.
11
