Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitzy and Menucha Rochel Geisinsky (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
This week, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) launched its spring course, “Biblical Reflections: Finding Yourself in the Book of Genesis.” The six-session course examines classic stories from Bereishis in-depth, shedding a modern light on their timeless lessons.
JLI Video – Biblical Reflections Lesson 1
This week, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) launched its spring course, “Biblical Reflections: Finding Yourself in the Book of Genesis.” The six-session course examines classic stories from Bereishis in-depth, shedding a modern light on their timeless lessons.
And that will drive the state's Medicaid spending — at nearly $50 billion a year, already the most lavish in the land — to even more astronomical levels.
True, some of this is due to the current climate: More people unemployed means more people forced onto the taxpayer-financed medical program.
Op-Ed: MEDICAID MADNESS
There was ominous news buried deep in the financial plan released last week by Gov. Paterson’s budget office: Five years hence, one in every four New Yorkers will be on Medicaid.
And that will drive the state’s Medicaid spending — at nearly $50 billion a year, already the most lavish in the land — to even more astronomical levels.
True, some of this is due to the current climate: More people unemployed means more people forced onto the taxpayer-financed medical program.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present a weekly first-time released photo of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In the main shul in 770, the Rebbe is seen giving out coins to counselors of Tzivos Hashem, the Lubavitch youth movement. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
Picture of the Rebbe! – Distributing Coins for Tzedaka!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present a weekly first-time released photo of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In the main shul in 770, the Rebbe is seen giving out coins to counselors of Tzivos Hashem, the Lubavitch youth movement. To learn more about the Rebbe Visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
There will be a gathering in her memory tonight, Wednesday at 8:30pm anyone who wants information about this get together can call (347) 881-6126.
PSA: Gathering in Memory of Doctor Susan Zilkha OBM
Tonight marks the Shloshim [30 days since the passing] of Doctor Susan Zilkha, ob-gyn to many women in crown heights.
There will be a gathering in her memory tonight, Wednesday at 8:30pm anyone who wants information about this get together can call (347) 881-6126.
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CrownHeights.info received a picture in which 10 Shluchim the Rebbe sent to ‘Beit Sefer L’mlacha’ in Kfar Chabad following the massacre.
In the photo (R-L): Rabbi Eliezer Horowitz, Hatomim Yehuda Kirnsky and the Yeshivas secretary Rabbi Chanoch Glitzinshtien. Shluchim: Rabbis Avrohom Korf. Sholom Ber Butman, Sholom Ber Shemtov, Zushe Posner, Shraga Feivish Hertzog, and Sholom Eidelman.
Picture of the Day! – Shluchim to Kfar Chabad 1956
CrownHeights.info received a picture in which 10 Shluchim the Rebbe sent to ‘Beit Sefer L’mlacha’ in Kfar Chabad following the massacre.
In the photo (R-L): Rabbi Eliezer Horowitz, Hatomim Yehuda Kirnsky and the Yeshivas secretary Rabbi Chanoch Glitzinshtien. Shluchim: Rabbis Avrohom Korf. Sholom Ber Butman, Sholom Ber Shemtov, Zushe Posner, Shraga Feivish Hertzog, and Sholom Eidelman.
Fire on St. Johns Place and Troy Avenue
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Last night, Monday, a fire broke out in an apartment on St. Johns Place, just a block away from the local firehouse from which they responded and had the fire under control within minutes.
Queens Judge Dismisses Eruv slip-and-fall Suit
QUEENS, NY — A Queens judge has thrown out a slip-and-fall case filed by a woman who allegedly tripped over a temple’s “eruv” wire. Eruvs, thin wires strung about 15 to 18 feet above ground, are used by Orthodox Jewish communities to create a symbolic walled courtyard in which the strictures against carrying things in public on the Sabbath are relaxed.
Mazal Tov! – L’Chaim Tonight Tuesday!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Leibel Kesselman (Detroit, MI) and Mussie Posner (Rancho Mirage, CA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight Tuesday at Dr. Feldman’s House 1401 President Street [between Kingston and Brooklyn].
ULY Ocean Parkways Chinese Auction and Winners!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — In an event themed “New Horizons…” hundreds attended a Chinese Auction benefiting United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway. From 1:30 in the afternoon at the Campus Chomesh, Bais Rivkah ballroom was a showcase of all the items being offered up for auction.
The Iraqi government has rejected recent claims made by an organization demanding that the country's Jews be compensated for property lost when they immigrated to Israel, the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported recently.
Iraq Refuses to Compensate Jews
The Iraqi government has rejected recent claims made by an organization demanding that the country’s Jews be compensated for property lost when they immigrated to Israel, the London-based Arabic-language al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported recently.
Mazal Tov! – it’s A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Tov to Yossi and Esti Lowenbein (Crown Heights) on the birth of a daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
WASHINGTON — In a unanimous decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that many of the convictions and sentences given to immigrant detainees from the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville were in error.
U.S. Supreme Court Slaps Postville Prosecutions
WASHINGTON — In a unanimous decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that many of the convictions and sentences given to immigrant detainees from the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville were in error.
Believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in that part of the American West, a newly-built Jewish ritual bath in Montana is serving Jewish residents from Wyoming, Idaho, North and South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
New Ritual Bath Makes Jewish Tradition Accessible to Backcountry Lifestyle
Believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in that part of the American West, a newly-built Jewish ritual bath in Montana is serving Jewish residents from Wyoming, Idaho, North and South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
L’Chaim: Nadler – Levin
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Sholly Nadler (Crown Heights) and Nechama Dina Levin (S. Monica, CA) Monday night at Bais Levi Yitzchak. Photos by BYK.
L’Chaim: Zalmanov – Bastomski
Pictures from the L’Chaim of Shmulik Zalmanov (Crown Heights) and Bunia Bastomski (Los Angeles, CA) Thursday night at the Zalmanov Home. Photos by BYK.
