POLOTZK, Belarus [FJC] — In the Vitebsk Region of Belarus, the Jewish community of Polotzk has undertaken a charity drive aimed at helping low-income and otherwise impoverished families.
Zalmi Kurinsky (Crown Heights) and Rochie Rothman (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 76 Clove Rd, [corner Malbone St, MAP].
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
GAZA — The parents of an Israeli soldier injured Tuesday during anti-terror operations in the Gaza Strip is terming as miraculous their son’s relatively moderate injuries following a mine explosion.
Rabbi Yehuda Rubin, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Elon More, says that his son, paratrooper Nechemia Rubin, was clearing a house outside of Gaza City as part of Israel’s 18-day-old offensive against Hamas targets, dubbed Operation Cast Lead. He was standing next to his commander when the mine went off, sending shrapnel everywhere.
ALBANY, NY [NY1] — The New York State Board of Regents is set to vote this week on a proposed Hebrew charter school in Brooklyn. The New York Times says the school would open in the fall if approved.
Under the proposal, the school would start with 150 kindergartners and first graders and be located in District 22 – which encompasses Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, and Mill Basin.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chezky and Perry (nee Grossbaum) Wolff (New York, NY) on the birth of their 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 !!
PARIS, France [AFP] — French politicians and religious leaders on Monday condemned a petrol bomb attack on a synagogue, the latest incident in a spate of anti-Semitic violence since the start of Israel’s Gaza offensive.
Vandals hurled nine firebombs at the Ohr Menahem community centre and synagogue in the ethnically mixed Paris suburb of Saint-Denis late Sunday, sparking a fire in the next-door kosher restaurant, local police said.
We would like to wish Mazal tov to Shmuly and Leah (nee Rudd) Wachtel (Toronto, Canada) on the birth of their daughter, Yael Tova.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
NEW YORK, NY — Several City Council members announced on Sunday that a bill had been introduced that would create a five-minute grace period before drivers are issued summonses for parking violations like expired meters and alternate-side parking rules.
The bill addresses a longstanding pet peeve among many city lawmakers, whose constituents often complain of feeling victimized by unforgiving traffic agents.
Last week Yechiel Cagen sat down for a My Encounter with the Rebbe interview with Dr. Elliot Udell, who served as the Rebbe’s podiatrist in the late 80’s and early 90’s. From the JemNationBlog.com.
A ground invasion in an urban area is tricky business. Things can get hairy real fast. But as has been demonstrated whenever Israel takes the correct attitude in defending itself, the casualties are miraculously low. Bli ayin horah, and may it ever remain so. The guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Dalia Kulek (Shluchim to West Hartford. CT) on the birth of their daughter, Rivka.
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 !!
DUBUQUE, IA [KCRG]– About a dozen rabbis from New York and across the country are asking for the release of former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin.
Rubashkin is being held without bail in the Dubuque County Jail, on charges stemming from an immigration raid at the meat packing plant back in May.
TEL AVIV, Israel — In another example of how market forces serve religious faith, El Al is in advanced negotiations with representatives of the haredi community to provide super kosher or “Mehadrin” flights.
If the deal between the sides is sealed, the flights, which would begin this Pessah season, would adhere to strict gender separation, Glatt kosher food and no secular on-flight movies.
TOLEDO, OH — Every Saturday, as the afternoon begins to draw to an end, some of the University of Toledo women’s basketball players prepare to make a phone call.
When the sun finally sets, they dial their teammate, Naama Shafir. “Naama, it’s time to come out and play!” they sing to her.
TEL AVIV, Israel — With sales deals collapsing, personal guarantees are raised. Shaya Boymelgreen, the controlling shareholder in Boymelgreen Capital Ltd. (TASE:BMGN), is being forced to increase his personal guarantees to Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (TASE:MZTF) to $50 million from $25 million. Other terms of the guarantees remain unchanged.
Boymelgreen Capital reported the item to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) after its board of directors and its audit committee authorized the increase in the guarantees as a deal between the company and its controlling shareholder. Shaya Boymelgreen owns 89.8% of the shares in the company
KEY LARGO, FL — People use the expression ‘out of this world,’ and I never understood it before,” says Lauren Kraft, a senior at Arizona State University. “But this was definitely an out of this world experience: it was like an eight-day Shabbat.”
Snorkel and Study, a project of Bais Chana International, completed its fourth annual college women’s retreat in Key Largo, Florida, Thursday. Coordinator Estee Behrman says that the event, the largest ever, included 90 students from campuses around the globe. Behrman recruited participants at the annual campus Shabbaton in Crown Heights, via Facebook, and by visiting several universities. In fact, explains Behrman, “the program is successful only because organizers and campus shluchim work hand in hand, encouraging and supporting girls to attend.”
ORANGE, CT — The terrorist killings in Mumbai, India, over the Thanksgiving weekend brought out the best in students at the Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy.
The loss of more than 100 people, including six Jews, two of them a rabbi and his pregnant wife there to spread the message of the Chabad movement, struck the children hard.
This song composed by Lipa Schmeltzer for Moshe Holtzberg, surviving son of Chabad’s slain Shluchim in Mumbai. “Moishe’le Neshama’le”, written as a letter to the two year old, was sung at the Soul II Soul 5769 concert in Crown Heights on Motzei Shabbos.
Lyrics in the Extended Article!
