Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Elisha Nir (Kiriat Melachi, Israel) and Zahava Jacobs (Kfar Chabad, Israel) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
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including Saturday, the day he died, relatives said.
David Weiss had seen the worst of the world but remained deeply faithful. He went to synagogue every day, including the morning he died, when relatives said he returned home for a forgotten prayer shawl and was caught in the flames.
“He lived for God,” said his granddaughter, Faigy Stroh. “A very humble man.”
Neighbors called Weiss a lively man who seemed younger than his years.
“A 100-year-old man and he still walked without a cane - he still walked on his two feet. To be killed in a fire? It is a tragedy,” said Moses Bineth, 31, who works at the minimart where Weiss bought chocolate for his great-grandkids.
Auschwitz Survivor Dies at 100 in fire at Home in Brooklyn
including Saturday, the day he died, relatives said.
A Brooklyn man who survived both world wars, the Auschwitz gas chambers and the deaths of four wives perished at age 100 when he was trapped in a fire in his Williamsburg home.
David Weiss had seen the worst of the world but remained deeply faithful. He went to synagogue every day, including the morning he died, when relatives said he returned home for a forgotten prayer shawl and was caught in the flames.
“He lived for God,” said his granddaughter, Faigy Stroh. “A very humble man.”
Neighbors called Weiss a lively man who seemed younger than his years.
“A 100-year-old man and he still walked without a cane – he still walked on his two feet. To be killed in a fire? It is a tragedy,” said Moses Bineth, 31, who works at the minimart where Weiss bought chocolate for his great-grandkids.
Although living in Beijing, China, which would seem far from the US and its TV programs, being the Chabad Lubavitch Shlucha here makes me the one that people turn to when they have a Jewish, Chassidic or “Torah perspective Women’s” question. Last week was no different and the big buzz was about the comments made on “The View” by Susie Essman, who plays the role of a Lubavitcher woman in a movie titled “Loving Leah”.
The comments and questions were the talk of my Friday kitchen as I prepared for Shabbat with some University students and the young Shluchot who help us in the Chabad House. I silently listed to them discuss this with a mix of anger, shock, outrage and confusion and a disbelief that in today’s modern and “open” world comments such as hers could be publicly heard and not refuted! They were further more infuriated that noone on the show stopped her or challenged her comments. They turned to me for my thoughts on boycotts, websites and angry emails in response to this outrage.
Op-Ed: Thank you Susie Essman!
Although living in Beijing, China, which would seem far from the US and its TV programs, being the Chabad Lubavitch Shlucha here makes me the one that people turn to when they have a Jewish, Chassidic or “Torah perspective Women’s” question. Last week was no different and the big buzz was about the comments made on “The View” by Susie Essman, who plays the role of a Lubavitcher woman in a movie titled “Loving Leah”.
The comments and questions were the talk of my Friday kitchen as I prepared for Shabbat with some University students and the young Shluchot who help us in the Chabad House. I silently listed to them discuss this with a mix of anger, shock, outrage and confusion and a disbelief that in today’s modern and “open” world comments such as hers could be publicly heard and not refuted! They were further more infuriated that noone on the show stopped her or challenged her comments. They turned to me for my thoughts on boycotts, websites and angry emails in response to this outrage.
Nechama’s Closet Auction Winners
Admission prize (ring): Family Harrison
Admission prize (set of Adele Faber books): Shmuli
Jackpot 1: D. Cohen
Jackpot 2: Meyer Schreiber
Split the pot: Faigy Goldwasser
Grand Prize: Leah Deitsch
List Continued and more pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmulik Friedman (Mil Basin, NY) and Tzippy Levy (Long Beach, CA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Monday at 484 Crown St, [Between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
JLI Lecture with Schindler’s List Survivor – Sold Out!
SKOKIE, IL [CHI] — Over 1400 people filled the Auditorium at Niles West High School in Skokie, IL to hear the story of one man’s commitment to save thousands of Jews during the dark years of the holocaust. Mr. Leon Leyson the youngest survivor on Schindler’s List, kept the crowd spell-bound for an hour and a half while he retold his personal experience of growing up in Cheder, the takeover of the Nazi Regime and how he was miraculously saved through the efforts of Oskar Schindler and his factory.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Meir Szokovski (Melbourne, Australia) and Chevee Hein (Morristown, NJ) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tonight at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
CANTON, NY — The owner of kosher food operations in Ogdensburg will be evicted by the city for failure to pay rent and utilities.
Ahava of California LLC, Venice, Calif., reportedly owes the city $90,000 in back rent and $618,138 in delinquent utility payments, according to a four-page complaint filed Friday. The city will evict the business March 10, should the delinquent bills not be paid. The Times was unable to ascertain whether the plant was operating Friday.
City of Ogdensburg moves to Evict Ahava
CANTON, NY — The owner of kosher food operations in Ogdensburg will be evicted by the city for failure to pay rent and utilities.
Ahava of California LLC, Venice, Calif., reportedly owes the city $90,000 in back rent and $618,138 in delinquent utility payments, according to a four-page complaint filed Friday. The city will evict the business March 10, should the delinquent bills not be paid. The Times was unable to ascertain whether the plant was operating Friday.
Mazal Tov! – It’s A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moshe and Chanie Gourarie (Toms River, NJ) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — A Hasidic rabbi would seem to share little in common with flamboyant pop artist Andy Warhol. But Yitzchok Moully, a rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, makes pop art with a Hasidic twist.
Basking Ridge Rabbi Transforms Jewish Icons into Pop Art
BASKING RIDGE, NJ — A Hasidic rabbi would seem to share little in common with flamboyant pop artist Andy Warhol. But Yitzchok Moully, a rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, makes pop art with a Hasidic twist.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The theft of a Sefer Torah, valued at over $40,000, shook Crown Heights last week, many different newspapers and TV stations covered the incident along with the plea to help have it returned.
A number of people made an absurd accusation that the theft had been committed by someone who was Jewish, with the reasoning that only a Jew would know the value of a torah. But police were able to pull surveillance footage from two security cameras on the block.
Surveillance Video of the Thief who Stole the Sefer Torah
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The theft of a Sefer Torah, valued at over $40,000, shook Crown Heights last week, many different newspapers and TV stations covered the incident along with the plea to help have it returned.
A number of people made an absurd accusation that the theft had been committed by someone who was Jewish, with the reasoning that only a Jew would know the value of a torah. But police were able to pull surveillance footage from two security cameras on the block.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmulie Zaklikofsky (Oak Park, MI) and Chanie Gammal (Montreal, Canada) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
The primary ‘solvent’ used by 85% of drycleaners in the United States is a chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc in short, and there have been a large number of studies conducted as to the adverse affects of this solvent can have on people wearing cloths that have been cleaned with it, and the affects it can have on the workers exposed to it, and the environment.
How Safe is Dry Cleaning?
The primary ‘solvent’ used by 85% of drycleaners in the United States is a chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc in short, and there have been a large number of studies conducted as to the adverse affects of this solvent can have on people wearing cloths that have been cleaned with it, and the affects it can have on the workers exposed to it, and the environment.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid Russ (Montreal, Canada) and Chavi Greenberg (Morristown, NJ) on their engagement.
Email your Simcha or Mazal Tov to MazalTov@CrownHeights.info !!
A Week of Inspiration
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — The population of Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim more than doubled in a week. The yearly Winter Program at Morristown is always inspirational and educational, but this year was unique. More than fifty College-age youth from around the United States and, South America, Israel and Europe came for the week after Chanukah in order to immerse themselves in the yeshiva environment and experience in-depth learning, most for the first time in their lives. The schedule of events was filled with nonstop classes, lectures and encounters with Rabbis and an outing to NY and a sports GYM.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Menachem Mendel (ben Reb Yitzchok) Yarmush (Montreal, Canada) and Esti Rapaport (Zurich, Switzerland) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be TODAY, 4:30pm at Ateres Miriam 1640 Carroll Street [btw Schenectady and Utica Aves]
This midwinter, the Jewish Children’s Museum invites Crown Heightsers to spend a day living, laughing and discovering with friends—at the discounted half-price admission of $5 per child!
PSA: 3-Day Vacation Special at Jewish Children’s Museum
This midwinter, the Jewish Children’s Museum invites Crown Heightsers to spend a day living, laughing and discovering with friends—at the discounted half-price admission of $5 per child!
