VESTAL, NY — Binghamton University students and members of the community celebrated a traditional Jewish Arts Festival.
Students learned the method behind making the torah and other religious items.
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REDONDO BEACH, CA — “This might have been the best concert I’ve ever been to,” said Brian Krieger, 41, a long time supporter of Chabad and now a lifetime fan of 8th Day.
Krieger was one of hundreds who gathered last night at the Jewish Community Center of Redondo Beach to hear the brothers Marcus and their ever growing popular band 8th Day.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel and Devora (nee Gorelik) Lew (Bloomsbury, England) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
MUMBAI, India — Hoping to continue the legacy of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, both of whom were killed in the 26/11 attack on their Jewish centre in the city, the ultra-orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement has chosen Rivka’s younger sister Sara and her husband Rabbi Yaakov-David Leiter to replace them and carry on providing visiting Jews a “home away from home” in Mumbai.
Tonight, Monday, February 23, 2009, at 8:00 pm, Rabbi YY Jacobson will deliver a 40-minute live Parsha class: What the Jews Did Not Tell the Dalai Lama – The Secret of the Ark’s Immobile Poles. The class will have an accompanying curriculum which you can download.
To watch, please visit www.TheYeshiva.net
To listen via telephone, please call: 1-616-347-8000. Access code: 1007852#
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Menachem Mendel Gist (Jacksonville, FL) and Sharon Marcovits (Guatemala/Florida) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at FREE 1383 President St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
Each time I watch my wedding video, tears roll down my face; happy tears. The joy of being married to my soul mate is indescribable, that special day was the start of my beautiful family. I recently heard an ad for a secular matchmaking website; it goes “life is too short to not find your soul mate”. How true. From the time we are young children we talk and dream about our wedding and our future spouse: why is it then that when we reach marriageable age we often become our own impediments to that dream?
After I got married I vowed not to forget my single relatives, friends and the many singles that I know. Now that I am married I have the point of view of the single and the shadchan. Although some of the complaints about shadchanim are valid, the singles/parents must make sure they are doing as much as they are able to increase their chances of finding Mr. / Mrs. Right. Everybody needs to focus on what they need to do because we can only change ourselves and the way we do things, we can not change others.
I would like to mention a few of the things one should and shouldn’t do to bring more singles closer to finding their bashert.
Continued in the Extended Article.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This Motzoai Shabbos hundreds of men enjoyed a unique evening, benefitting the Keren Simchas Choson VeKallas annual Chinese Auction.
List of winners and more pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisrael and Chanchy (nee Dubrawsky) Kugel (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
OGDENSBURG, NY [AP] — The state agriculture department has shut down a troubled kosher cheese plant near New York’s northern border.
The action Friday was based on inspection of the Ahava plant and samples of its products, which showed excessive levels of bacteria. State inspectors have seized more than 25,000 pounds of cheese found unfit for human consumption.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This Motzoei Shabbos at Congregation Ahavas Achim (Empire Shtiebel), Gmilath Chasodim Shomrei Shabbos held their annual Melava Malka. The Gmach plays a vital role in our community, assisting hundreds of families and many organizations in the time of need.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
DONETSK, Ukraine [FJC] — The Ohr Avner Chabad Day School of Donetsk is utilizing a dynamic approach to instruction on age-old traditions of the Jewish people. Namely, schoolteachers of various grades, under the guidance of Miriam Rybalchenko and Rachel Milman, offered students the opportunity to participate in a workshop, at which they could learn more about Kashrut and kosher foods.
This new forum for learning has boosted the youth’s enthusiasm for studying their national traditions and this exercise was equally interesting to the adults engaged in the sessions.
CORAM, NY [CBS] — Even though he’s just a fifth grader, 11-year-old Ben Berrafato is challenging – seriously challenging – one of this country’s most enduring and widely held beliefs: The belief that kids need homework.
SHERMAN OAKS, CA — With the growing awareness and greater education about autism and other disorders that once condemned children thus afflicted to lives of isolation and loneliness, come bold attempts to push the envelope and uncover possibilities for creative achievements few imagined exist among this misunderstood and marginalized segment of the population.
NEW YORK, NY — The Big Apple is due for the Big One.
The trio of earthquakes that surprised New Jersey over the past month has seismologists wondering what’s next – and they say it doesn’t look good.
