All Tags
Accidents
Blogs
Camp News
Chabad News
Chanukah
Comics
Communal Matters
Crime
Crown Heights News
Farbrengens
Fires
General
Israel
Jewish News
Kinus Hashluchim
Letter and Spirit
Mazal Tov!
Merkos Shlichus
Mivtzoim
Monsey News
Notices
NYC News
Op-Ed
Photo Galleries
Picture of the Day
PSA
Real Estate
Rockland County News
Satire
Shlichus
Simcha Galleries
Something Jewish
Upstate News
Videos
Weekly Voice

The disputed elections have taken place, and it remains to be seen what will be on June 3rd. If the plaintiffs drop their claim, then these are the people we will live with for the next three years.

What’s particularly disturbing to me in all this are not the disagreements but the vitriol with which they’ve come to be expressed. The comments made on community websites, particularly CrownHeights.Info have been especially nauseating. The wisdom of posting them aside, the feelings revealed by these postings are irrational to the point of borderline dangerous.

Rabbi Osdoba has been vilified in the most vile terms. Therefore I feel a need to express my opinion.

Op-Ed: Enough Already!!!

The disputed elections have taken place, and it remains to be seen what will be on June 3rd. If the plaintiffs drop their claim, then these are the people we will live with for the next three years.

What’s particularly disturbing to me in all this are not the disagreements but the vitriol with which they’ve come to be expressed. The comments made on community websites, particularly CrownHeights.Info have been especially nauseating. The wisdom of posting them aside, the feelings revealed by these postings are irrational to the point of borderline dangerous.

Rabbi Osdoba has been vilified in the most vile terms. Therefore I feel a need to express my opinion.

Op-Ed
47
Premium Post
A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle

Mazal Tov's View More
New Engagement!

JJ Cohen (Boca Raton, FL) to Nechama Solomon (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Dovid Ezagui (Brooklyn, NY) to Chava Sorkin (Brooklyn, NY)
New Engagement!

Hushi Kot (Tallinn, Estonia) to Chani Wilhelm (Morristown, NJ) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
New Engagement!

Velvel Reikhtman (Montreal, Canada) to Channah Kagan (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tuesday, June 10th, 8:30pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
Baby Boy!

Shimon and Chanie Alon from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yitzy and Leeby Smith from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Pesach Chaim Newman (Crown Heights) to Bluma Raizel Lewis (Old Tappan, NJ)
New Engagement!

Eitan Hershkop (Crown Heights) to Chana Belfer (Melbourne, Australia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Bass and Bourbon
New Engagement!

Levi Meer (Morristown, NJ) to Sara Gershovitz (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Thursday, June 12th, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street Upstairs
New Engagement!

Yosef Chaim Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Leah Eisenbach (New York)
New Engagement!

Pesach Bercovice (Chicago, IL) to Tzipporah Yasmine Holloway (Orlando, FL)
New Engagement!

Mendel Saaks (Chicago, IL) to Leeba Grossbaum (Paramus, NJ)
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Keselman (London, UK) to Shaina Keller (Crown Heights)

1
New Engagement!

Ya’akov Silverman (Tysons Corner, VA) to Chaya Raizel Michaelson (Glastonbury, CT)
New Engagement!

Yitzchak Minkowitz (Fort Myers, FL) to Shani Silver (Mequon, WI)
New Engagement!

Avremel Weingarten (Flint, MI) to Chana Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Yaya Kagan (Los Angeles, CA) to Hadas Malamud (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 7:30pm at the Oholei Torah Ballroom

CTeeN’s Memorial Day Weekend with Chabad

Hi there. My name is Jacob and I would like to tell you what I did this past Memorial day weekend. On Sunday, I joined 75 fellow high school students for a fun filled day in New York City with the most amazing Rabbis I’ve ever met. The trip was arranged by CTeen- the Chabad network of teens worldwide- as part of their annual “feeling Jewish in the city”.

Shlichus
12
By Yudy Pineiro for the Miami Herald

Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky pulls back the Parochet that covers the Ark and holds the Torah at Chabad of Doral.

DORAL, FL — When Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky established the Chabad Jewish Center of Doral, he only knew one Jew in Doral and hosted services in private homes.

Three years later, the congregation has grown to about 40 active members and occupies a two-floor space in a shopping center at 9725 NW 41st St.

Chabad Center Brings Together Jews in Doral

By Yudy Pineiro for the Miami Herald

Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky pulls back the Parochet that covers the Ark and holds the Torah at Chabad of Doral.

DORAL, FL — When Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky established the Chabad Jewish Center of Doral, he only knew one Jew in Doral and hosted services in private homes.

Three years later, the congregation has grown to about 40 active members and occupies a two-floor space in a shopping center at 9725 NW 41st St.

Shlichus
3
By Zalman Nelson for Lubavitch.com

Bullet Train At Tokyo Station

TOKYO, JAPAN — It’s two days before Shavuot, and Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich has just returned from visiting several prisons in Tokyo. “I’ve got one more to go today.” he tells lubavitch.com in a phone interview. At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, he needs to be at another prison, to advocate on behalf of a Jewish prisoner’s religious needs.

Chabad of Tokyo: Reaching Out To Japan’s Jews

By Zalman Nelson for Lubavitch.com

Bullet Train At Tokyo Station

TOKYO, JAPAN — It’s two days before Shavuot, and Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich has just returned from visiting several prisons in Tokyo. “I’ve got one more to go today.” he tells lubavitch.com in a phone interview. At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, he needs to be at another prison, to advocate on behalf of a Jewish prisoner’s religious needs.

Shlichus

Camp Pre Mesivta is pleased to announce the head staff for the coming summer of 5769.  Mendy Wolf from Chicago will serve as the Head Counselor and Mendy Grifkin as Learning Director. Shmully Borentstein will operate as the General Manger and Yosef Shidler will head Public Relations. The counselors and learning teacher’s names may be released down the road however for now they are being withheld. 

Camp Pre-Mesivta Announces Head Staff

Camp Pre Mesivta is pleased to announce the head staff for the coming summer of 5769.  Mendy Wolf from Chicago will serve as the Head Counselor and Mendy Grifkin as Learning Director. Shmully Borentstein will operate as the General Manger and Yosef Shidler will head Public Relations. The counselors and learning teacher’s names may be released down the road however for now they are being withheld. 

PSA
5
By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

Michael Corwin and Julie Ames with Tzvi and Sheva Tauby, co-directors of Ivolunteer.

NEW YORK, NY — He met Sheva and her husband over a traditional Shabbat dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. By the time dessert was cleared, Sheva had a hunch that Michael Corwin, 29, was a perfect match for Julie Ames, a fellow volunteer. Though he had never dated someone through a matchmaker, and later admits that he only followed through “to be agreeable,” Corwin and Ames are now engaged. Sheva, he says, was on the mark.

A Couple of Volunteers

By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

Michael Corwin and Julie Ames with Tzvi and Sheva Tauby, co-directors of Ivolunteer.

NEW YORK, NY — He met Sheva and her husband over a traditional Shabbat dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. By the time dessert was cleared, Sheva had a hunch that Michael Corwin, 29, was a perfect match for Julie Ames, a fellow volunteer. Though he had never dated someone through a matchmaker, and later admits that he only followed through “to be agreeable,” Corwin and Ames are now engaged. Sheva, he says, was on the mark.

Shlichus
2
Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of an important halakhic text: She’erit Yehuda, by Rabbi Yehuda Leib of Yanovitch, brother of the founder of Chabad Lubavitch—Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

The Chabad Chasidic movement is, perhaps, more known for its advancement of the study of Chasidic philosophy and the Chasidic way of life, than its innovations in the field Jewish law and custom. Indeed, R. Schneur Zalman is known not only as the author of Tanya (the written Torah of Chasidism) but as the author of the Shulchan Aruch. To many of his contemporaries and in successive generations, he is known simply as “the Rav.”

As his right hand man and associate in all matters of leadership and scholarship, esoteric to the exoteric, as architect helping to shape the structure of the Chabad movement and as chief editor of his brother’s works--R Yehuda Leib had strong influence on the direction and form the fledgling Chabad Lubavitch movement would take.

Important Halakhic Tome Published by Kehot

Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of an important halakhic text: She’erit Yehuda, by Rabbi Yehuda Leib of Yanovitch, brother of the founder of Chabad Lubavitch—Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

The Chabad Chasidic movement is, perhaps, more known for its advancement of the study of Chasidic philosophy and the Chasidic way of life, than its innovations in the field Jewish law and custom. Indeed, R. Schneur Zalman is known not only as the author of Tanya (the written Torah of Chasidism) but as the author of the Shulchan Aruch. To many of his contemporaries and in successive generations, he is known simply as “the Rav.”

As his right hand man and associate in all matters of leadership and scholarship, esoteric to the exoteric, as architect helping to shape the structure of the Chabad movement and as chief editor of his brother’s works–R Yehuda Leib had strong influence on the direction and form the fledgling Chabad Lubavitch movement would take.

Chabad News

THE REAL CROWN HEIGHTS ELECTION RESULTS

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday night we reported the election tally, but that was hardly a reflection of the real outcome of the elections. Monday afternoon and Today, Tuesday the new Vaad began their tenure by taking control of the Community Council and Vaad Hakohol Offices by force, in a massive display of Chilul Hashem, and the opposite of which these bodies are to represent.

Both parties clashed in a spar of verbal assaults and the removal of people from the offices by force. Property was damaged and windows were broken, as members of the opposing factions tried to change locks while others attempted to hold possession of the premises.

Communal Matters
122

Grand Prize: Matusof Family
Jackpot: E Chelton
Split the Pot: Anonymous

Admission
1- Eichenstein
2- Zushe Abelsky

Camp Packages:
Camp Emunah- Chanie Mishulovin
CGI Montreal- RS
CGI NY- Wilhelm
Pardes Chana- Limor Herrmann

Winners of the Keren Avrohom Eliezer Camp Fund Auction

Grand Prize: Matusof Family
Jackpot: E Chelton
Split the Pot: Anonymous

Admission
1- Eichenstein
2- Zushe Abelsky

Camp Packages:
Camp Emunah- Chanie Mishulovin
CGI Montreal- RS
CGI NY- Wilhelm
Pardes Chana- Limor Herrmann

PSA
2
By John Doyle for the NY Post

BROOKLYN, NY — What's stronger than Samson, as big as Mount Sinai and 100 percent kosher?

It's the massive, new $250,000 mobile security command center that an Orthodox Jewish civilian neighborhood patrol in Brooklyn has gotten to add some righteous power to its watchdog group.

Van With a Plan – Orthodox Patrol in Luxury

By John Doyle for the NY Post

BROOKLYN, NY — What’s stronger than Samson, as big as Mount Sinai and 100 percent kosher?

It’s the massive, new $250,000 mobile security command center that an Orthodox Jewish civilian neighborhood patrol in Brooklyn has gotten to add some righteous power to its watchdog group.

Jewish News
8

CrownHeights.info with the Merkos Shlichus office is pleased to announce that registration is in full gear for Summer Merkos Shlichus 5769. Bochrim that are interested in Merkos Shlichus can sign up at http://merkosshlichus.com/

Registration will close on ח' סיון May 31 so please make sure to sign up on time.

Merkos Shlichus Registration Now Open

CrownHeights.info with the Merkos Shlichus office is pleased to announce that registration is in full gear for Summer Merkos Shlichus 5769. Bochrim that are interested in Merkos Shlichus can sign up at http://merkosshlichus.com/

Registration will close on ח’ סיון May 31 so please make sure to sign up on time.

PSA
3

In preparation for Shavuot, Chabad.org has launched a new comprehensive section on Birkas Kohanim. This section contains a detailed guide to Birkas Kohanim: when it's done, both in Israel and the Diaspora; the kohanim's preparations; the procedure of the brachah; and the congregation's role. Also included is a deeper look at Birkas Kohanim through the lens of chassidic thought.

Click here to visit the new Birkat Kohanim section.

New Chabad.org Section on Birchas Kohanim

In preparation for Shavuot, Chabad.org has launched a new comprehensive section on Birkas Kohanim. This section contains a detailed guide to Birkas Kohanim: when it’s done, both in Israel and the Diaspora; the kohanim’s preparations; the procedure of the brachah; and the congregation’s role. Also included is a deeper look at Birkas Kohanim through the lens of chassidic thought.

Click here to visit the new Birkat Kohanim section.

Chabad News
1
By Yosef Katzman - The Cable Jew

For more than 60 years Jews are living in Israel under a Jewish Government. They fought 6-7 wars and are under constant threat of terror attacks.

Finally after almost 2000 years of exile and constant prayer and yearning to return to Jerusalem, it happened. Jews are in Israel and they are running their own affairs under a Jewish government.

Video – The Death of Modern Zionism?

By Yosef Katzman – The Cable Jew

For more than 60 years Jews are living in Israel under a Jewish Government. They fought 6-7 wars and are under constant threat of terror attacks.

Finally after almost 2000 years of exile and constant prayer and yearning to return to Jerusalem, it happened. Jews are in Israel and they are running their own affairs under a Jewish government.

Videos