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Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel Heber (Miami Beach, Florida) and Shira Keller (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at 935 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave].
NY Police Not Charging Driver in Chanukah Crash
WOODMERE, NY [AP] — A man who drove his sports utility vehicle into a Hanukkah party won’t face charges in the crash, which police said Friday may have been caused by a stuck floor mat.
Thursday’s crash injured 14 people, including the 76-year-old driver, psychologist Theodore Saretsky.
Chasoif: A Song In Honor of the Mumbai Shloishim
Everyone helps out in the way that they can. Since I work with many talented people in the Jewish music industry, I wanted to do something musical that would express our feelings on the upcoming Shloishim of the Kedoshim who were murdered in the Chabad House in Mumbai, India.
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Mumbai Survivor Lights Tennessee Capitol Menorah
By Esther Tiechtel
NASHVILLE, TN — Delivered the strong into the hands of the weak… The words of the Al Hanissim prayer danced in my head side by side with the images of Mumbai….Chanukah was here: a time of celebrating miracles. What was our answer to bring about a contemporary miracle in our times? Was it our mission to become a Jewish version of warriors and rise up like a band of raggedy armed Maccabees against the scourge of evil?
What Not to Wear – Some in Crown Heights Detect Modesty Crisis
Marissa Brostoff – Next Book
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An outsider visiting Crown Heights might be forgiven for thinking that the women in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood represent the height of modesty. But some in the Brooklyn community, where the Chabad-Lubavitch movement is based, are concerned that modesty standards are slipping, and have launched a campaign to counter the trend.
Thus far, the effort— organized by a woman named Sheyna Goldin, with the approval of Chabad’s women’s organization, N’Shei Chabad—has involved putting up 500 posters encouraging adherence to modesty laws. But not everyone in the organization agrees with Goldin’s approach, and a frisson of disagreement has broken out over it—and whether the declining standards are even anything new.
“It’s Not Just a Good Idea, IT’S THE LAW!” proclaim the posters, which appeared recently on Kingston Avenue and other neighborhood thoroughfares. The fliers go on to list the laws of tznius, or modesty (modest dress must begin at age three; shirts must cover collarbones; skirts must cover knees) and their talmudic sources. Fine print at the bottom explains the spiritual rewards for modest dress and the consequences for disregarding it.
Hundreds Attend Menorah Lighting at the Beach
BLOUBERGRANT, South Africa [CHI] — Hundreds of men, women and children from the West Coast, Cape Town, across South Africa and holiday makers from Europe, Australia and the USA joined together with Chabad of Blouberg West Coast in Cape Town to launch the festival of Chanukah.
Mazal Tov! – Its a Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Hendel and Bracha Leah (nee Vorst) Weingarten (East Lansing, MI) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
BP Markowitz Ushers in Chanukah with Chabad
Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz and Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin (to his left) hand out Chanukah treats to children at Brooklyn Borough Hall
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — On Monday, December 22, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham hosted a celebration of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Marking the holiday again this year is Brooklyn’s official 29-foot menorah in front of the Supreme Court building in Borough Hall Plaza.
More pictures in the Extended Article! (by Stephen Lipuma)
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Zalmanov (Tzfas, Israel) and Chana (bas R Yisroel) Prus (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Monday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
Dear Friends,
Our hearts and prayers are with those who were injured in today's accident at the Chanukah Wonderland.
We appreciate and are comforted by the tremendous outpouring of support, and are also overwhelmed with requests for additional information.
At this time, all information points to this being an unfortunate incident, wherein a car accidentally crashed through the building housing our community's family Chanukah celebration.
Statement from Chabad of the Five Towns
Dear Friends,
Our hearts and prayers are with those who were injured in today’s accident at the Chanukah Wonderland.
We appreciate and are comforted by the tremendous outpouring of support, and are also overwhelmed with requests for additional information.
At this time, all information points to this being an unfortunate incident, wherein a car accidentally crashed through the building housing our community’s family Chanukah celebration.
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
“Nothing you have acquired is real unless you worked for it. If you were born a nice guy, the niceness isn’t yours. If you started off not so nice, and now you do a little, that's Divine.”– Tzvi Freeman, Be Within Stay Above
“Nothing of real substance comes without work. Our pioneer forebears could never plow a field by turning it over in their minds. They had to put their hands to the plow and walk forward. The work is, by and large, easier now than in earlier times, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful privilege it is. . . When pleasure or recreation becomes an end in itself, we are in danger. We are in trouble. We simply cannot expect to refine the substance of character from hunks of pleasures.”– Gordon Hinckley, Standing For Something
Never having flown before, an old-timer was about to embark on his first such venture. Standing at the check-in counter he queried the ticketing agent: ”Nu, so tell me, how does the plane stay up in the air?”
A Tale of Two Dreams – The Importance of Human Effort
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Shliach to Jacksonville, FL
“Nothing you have acquired is real unless you worked for it. If you were born a nice guy, the niceness isn’t yours. If you started off not so nice, and now you do a little, that’s Divine.”
– Tzvi Freeman, Be Within Stay Above
“Nothing of real substance comes without work. Our pioneer forebears could never plow a field by turning it over in their minds. They had to put their hands to the plow and walk forward. The work is, by and large, easier now than in earlier times, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful privilege it is. . . When pleasure or recreation becomes an end in itself, we are in danger. We are in trouble. We simply cannot expect to refine the substance of character from hunks of pleasures.”
– Gordon Hinckley, Standing For Something
Never having flown before, an old-timer was about to embark on his first such venture. Standing at the check-in counter he queried the ticketing agent: ”Nu, so tell me, how does the plane stay up in the air?”
Photo Gallery: Hakhel Rally in 770 Hooked Up around the World!
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avremel Rimler (Melbourne, Australia) and Ayelet Bar-Chaim (Miami, FL) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
This Motzoai Shabbos, the 7th night of Chanukah, a parade of 25 Mitzvah Tanks and 130 Menorah cars will leave to Manhattan from Crown Heights. All who have Menorahs on their car are requested to participate! Meeting point: on President between Kingston and Albany at 6:45pm
Cars without Menorahs will not be able to join.
PSA: Menorah Parade in NYC
This Motzoai Shabbos, the 7th night of Chanukah, a parade of 25 Mitzvah Tanks and 130 Menorah cars will leave to Manhattan from Crown Heights. All who have Menorahs on their car are requested to participate! Meeting point: on President between Kingston and Albany at 6:45pm
Cars without Menorahs will not be able to join.
Please say Tehilim for…
Yitzchock ben Hadasa Devorah Basya Faiga
Shmuel ben Tova
Yehudis bas Tova
Yakira Breidel bas Rachel
Rivka bas Chana
Yitzchak Zev ben Masha Ehsha
Yaakov Tzvi ben Sara
Daniel ben Rivka
Eitan Yochai ben Shirah Yafah
They are in critical condition, going in and out of surgery, after being involved in the accident at Chabad of Five Towns “Chanukah Wonderland”. They need our tehilim
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