CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Close to one hundred students from Yeshiva University came together for the 12th annual Shabbaton in Crown Heights to spend a Shabbos full of inspiration. Organizers said that this year’s turnout eclipsed that of last year’s threefold.
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The first results are in from Darchai Menachems 8 days of spinners and winners Chinese Auction, the drawing took place at Sweet Expressions on Kingston Avenue and the Spiner Winner – Rivkah Leah Shenisky, Student Mendy Epstein spun the draidel and it landed on a hey, giving Rivkah Leah $100 in free auction tickets. And the first ones prizes were won by 1. Sterling Silver – Eli Wilansky, 2. Summer of fun – M. Feldman, 3. Board games – Bitzalel Steinhertz.
Each day another drawing will take place, and tomorrow’s is only hours away so hurry and visit DarchaiMenachem.com to place you order on the prizes that are still available!
The father of Rivkah Holtzberg, who was killed along with her husband Gavriel during the terror attack on the Chabad house in Mumbai, India last month, held a menorah-lighting ceremony at his Afula home Sunday evening.
Moshe Holtzberg, the murdered couple’s 2-year-old son, lit the first Hanukkah candle.
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Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, December 22, 2008, for snow removal. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Click here for the 2009 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A series of manhole explosions shook the vicinity of Eastern Parkway and Brooklyn Avenue and disrupting electricity and internet service. The explosions took place at around 3:30pm, filling the area with thick gray smoke, bringing residents out of their houses.
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In light of the recent tragedy in Mumbai, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch has received special permission to hold a public Menorah lighting ceremony at the Statue of Liberty.
The Menorah lighting will take place at the foot of Lady Liberty on Tuesday, December, 23 at 5:15pm-6:15pm to honor the memory of the shluchim Rabbi and Mrs. Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg and other victims of the Mumbai attack.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehuda and Bluma (nee Raskin) Blotner (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel
A man who prosecutors said fired two fatal gunshots into the face of Police Officer Russel Timoshenko during a traffic stop in Brooklyn last year was convicted of aggravated murder on Friday night, a charge that carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
A jury also found the man, Dexter Bostic, 36, guilty of all the other charges he faced, including the attempted aggravated murder of Officer Timoshenko’s partner, Herman Yan, and three counts of illegal gun possession. He is to be sentenced in February.
Mr. Bostic’s was the second verdict in the trial of three men who face identical charges in the July 2007 shooting. The case was heard simultaneously by three separate juries. Earlier this week, Robert Ellis was acquitted of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, delivering a stinging defeat for prosecutors, who had said that Mr. Ellis shot and wounded Officer Yan. Mr. Ellis was convicted on gun possession charges.
After we published the photo gallery of the amazing exhibit Beis Rivkas 12th grade made in honor of Yud Tes Kislev many comments and requests came in asking to open the Exhibit to the public, and the administration agreed.
Today, Sunday, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm there will be shifts every half hour for mothers and children to come and view the exhibits. Boys up to the age of 9 are welcome along with their mothers are welcome as well.
The exhibits are located at 310 Crown Street.
The family of Reb Yoel Silkes OBM who is survived by his wife Kayla along with his children, Bashi Levilev, Eli Silkes, Raizy Cousin, Malky Schwartz, Yitty Grafstein and Yaffe Silkes, is sitting shiva until Thursday morning at 681 Crown St.
Shacharis: Sunday: 8:15am the rest of the week: 7:15am. Mincha: 4:00pm. Maariv: bizmana
Phone: (718) 493-9002 Email: silkesfamily@gmail.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
“How can you ever repay someone for giving the love of learning to your child?”
That is the question asked time and time again about Darchai Menachem.
Every parent has felt that gut-wrenching tug on their child’s first day at school, with the nagging anxiety, “Will my child be happy?”
TZFAS, Israel [CHI] — From the beginning of the farbrengen one could already feel the electricity in the air that would carry on until daybreak. After Ma’ariv the bochurim enjoyed a lavish Seudas Yom Tov where the Niggun of Podoh B’Shalom was sung followed by the Ma’amer Niggun. The Ma’amer of Podoh B’Shalom was split up between six bochurim where each bochur said over a part of the Ma’amer. What nachas it was to watch these bochurim say over the Ma’amer with full confidence, bochurim who never thought they could do it. A big yasher koach goes to Habochur Hatomim Yossi Weiss, Habochur Hatomim Shloime Litvin, Habochur Hatomim Eli Marks, Habochur Hatomim Shmuly Bonnardel, Habochur Hatomim Yossi Rubin and Habochur Hatomim Yedidya Rittri.
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In addition to the tens of thousands of people who have pledged to spread goodness and kindness throughout the world, and to take on a specific deed in the merit of those who perished last month in the Mumbai terror attacks, many organizations and communities have launched Torah study campaigns as a way to honor the deceased.
WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI — As the piano player jammed away, three generations of the Shemtov family danced and sang with joy inside a Jewish center in West Bloomfield last Sunday night.
It was the bar mitzvah of Levi Shemtov, the 13-year-old grandson of a Russian immigrant who moved to Detroit 50 years ago to start the Michigan branch of an Orthodox Jewish group, Chabad Lubavitch. Last month, the group garnered worldwide attention with the terrorist murders of two of its members at a Chabad house in Mumbai, India.
ZHITOMIR, Ukraine [FJC] — This week, the Ohr Avner Chabad Day School of Zhitomir hosted a group of high-profile guests, all of whom are Jewish leaders active in the sphere of formal and informal Jewish education in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Among the members of the visiting delegation were Rabbi Dovid Mondshine, the Director of the Ohr Avner Foundation in Moscow, ‘Avi Chai’ Foundation Director in Russia David Rosenson, and yet one other representative of the Ohr Avner Foundation, Chaim Friedman.
The distinguished guests dropped by the day on Kislev 19, which is very symbolic since this is the New Year of Chassidism – a very joyous occasion. On this day, the visitors wished all the students a good year of studying Chassidic teachings, and the teachers good success in teaching them. In return, the pupils wished them all the best in this year and thanked them for their contribution to Jewish education in Ukraine.
BROOKLYN, NY — Jewish communities throughout the world gathered this week to celebrate the 210th anniversary of the release of the first Chabad Rebbe from a Russian prison. Tens of thousands of people took part in the celebrations, which stretched for two days and looked at the life and teachings of the first Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
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