CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Released Time had its annual melava malka at the Kollel on Motzoai Shabbos, honoring their instructors. Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, head Shliach to California, spoke about Released Time in California as it was in the “early years,” followed by Rabbi Chaim Bryski, Shliach to Thousand Oaks, California, who explained how to make the learning classes more interactive and interesting.
More pictures and a slideshow in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chaim Yehudah Friedman (Montreal, Canada) and Rivky Kesselman (Johannesburg, South Africa) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
BREST, Belarus [FJC] — In a field at Smolyarka, located in the district Berezovsky near Brest, a new plaque in memory of victims of the Holocaust was unvieled.
According to the Chairman of the Jewish community of Brest, Boris Bruk, the monument was established at the site of a mass murder of Jews where were the prisoners of the Berezovsky ghetto. Here, in 1942, occupying Nazi forces shot more than three thousand men, women, and children.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sruly and Miriam (nee Stock) Lerner (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.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A motorist is lucky to be alive today after he attempted to get out of his car as a city bus was passing him. The incident took place at around 3:15pm on New York Avenue in front of the 71st Precinct, the car was double parked and the driver opened his door after more than half the bus had already passed him and got damaged by the bus’s rear tires.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Adam and Miriam (nee Oster) Brooker (Crown Heights) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — From the pinnacle of the Kinus, the Banquet on Pier 94 in Manhattan, Shluchim made their way back to Crown Heights, to 770 where Shluchim and Bochurim gathered in the big Zal upstairs and the main Shul downstairs and Farbrenged well into the night.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
In the English Colel Chabad Calendar there is a mistake with regards to when we start saying “Vten Tal U’Matar”.
On page 56 it incorrectly states that we begin saying “ותן טל ומטר” on Sunday night the 4th of Kislev, when it should be Thursday night the 8th of Kislev.
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — This is the third and final gallery from the Kinus HaShluchim Banquet. In this gallery, Rabbi Moshe Bryski shliach to Conejo Valley gave his moving keynote.
Photo Gallery continued in the Extended Article!
Shluchim who were still Farbrenging in 770 at 6:00am, were shocked when JEM staff walked in the with banquet video fully produced on DVD. Last night’s historic banquet was shocker enough. The fact that the entire event was available on DVD only hours after it concluded was an even bigger shock.
The DVD runtime is 2:42 and contains the entire banquet, including the full speeches of Ambassador Yehuda Avner, Rabbi Moshe Bryski, the roll call, dancing and Tzeirei Hashluchim presentation.
Pictures of the JEM crew at work in the Extended Article!
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — This is the second gallery from the Kinus HaShluchim at Pier 94. In this gallery the Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky makes the popular Roll-Call, where he announces countries and states, and their representatives stand up in acknowledgment, followed by dancing.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The Czech capital of Prague, once a center of thriving Jewish life, still boasts numerous synagogues, many of which now serve as museums commemorating a Jewish community that has largely disappeared.
But a new institute recently opened in Prague seeks to become a focal point for Jewish life and culture in the city. The Maharal Institute, named after the great Talmudic scholar Judah Loew ben Bezalel, serves as a yeshiva for male students and offers Torah lessons for members of the local Jewish community, including women.
Up to the minute reports, amazing photo galleries, full coverage, meet ‘Webby’ and ‘Techie’. As the Kinus banquet concluded Rabbi Gershon Grossbaum took Webbys camera and snapped a shot of the duo as they were leaving.
Many more pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal tov to Pinchus and Chaya (nee Abramowitz) Morozow (Monsey, NY) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
BROOKLYN, NY — With an eye on the growing financial crisis, Jewish centers operated by Chabad-Lubavitch are refusing to cut programming, all while doing everything possible to trim budgets and rely on an expanded team of local volunteers and donors. But even with the economy in a tailspin, new centers continue to sprout around the globe.
NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Below is the first of the photo galleries from the Kinus HaShluchim Banquet. The affair was held at Pier 94, a hangar uniquely decorated for the event. A short distance from where the Frierdiker Rebbe first set foot onto American soil, the hangar is one of the only spaces large enough to seat the thousands of Shluchim and their guests. More to come. ENJOY!
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