BREST, Belarus [FJC] — In the Belarus city of Brest, three years after the opening of the Ohr Avner Chabad Kindergarten, it has finally relocated to a new spacious building. Today, this educational institution is attended by dozens of children.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yanky Perelmuter (Long Beach, CA) and Jodi Sadoff (Cincinnati, OH / Long Beach, CA) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
Hoshanah Rabbah 5744, September 28, 1983. After Maariv the Rebbe turns to address the crowd. More than just a Sicha, the Rebbe launches into an impassioned plea: Why the Golus? The Rebbe’s voice is broken with emotion. The Almighty can surely find a way to give us all of the benefits of Golus without the Golus. The crowd is silent, stunned, every eye is moved to tears. How can Hashem ignore such a plea!
Living Torah, Program 205, scheduled to be viewed the world over this coming Motzaei Shabbos and Sunday of Tisha B’Av, is geared at one goal: Joining with the Rebbe in turning the potential of this day into a universal plea for the Redemption.
Rabbi Mendel and Rachey (nee Goodman) Simons have just moved on Shlichus to West Hollywood, CA where they will be establishing a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish residents of The Sunset Plaza in Hollywood Hills.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, head Shliach of California.
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — While they may not be as well-known as the Yankees, Crown Heights has five of its own home-grown softball teams comprised of young men with an enormous store of energy, a great sense of fun, and a real aversion to babysitting.
The Crown Heights Softball League was founded in 2005 by Zevi Steinhauser and Danny Cole. After four years of playing on a team representing Crown Heights in the Kings County Softball League they got permits to rent a field for their own private games and the two teams with 11 players each played each other every week. Today the league boasts five full-size teams: the Hebrew Hammers, Kloppers, Mulles, Red Heifers, and Skullcaps.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yanky Bruk (Crown Heights) and Rivky Cohen (Monsey, NY) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Camp Machne Mamosh celebrated the first ever Dovid Astulin Day, this past Friday. H.C.S.T. says “Dovid is not just a bus driver, rather, a bus driver who cares about each and every child going to Yeshivah.”
More pictures in the Extended Article!
ARDSLEY, NY — Once a month for the past year, the mothers and babies represented in the Mommy and Me group at suburban New York Jewish center have helped residents of a local senior center express their still-youthful spirits.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — The New York City Police Department planned an 11:30 a.m. news conference on Wednesday to announce an arrest in the near fatal shooting of a 9-year old boy on Monday night.
Mendy and Faigy (nee Blank) Bitton.
IYH at 888 Montgomery St, Apt A7, [bet Troy and Schenectady Ave].
Tully and Lieba (nee Katzen) Kahan.
IYH at 566 Montgomery St, [bet New York and Brooklyn Ave].
Berel and Dina (nee Kaplinsky) Bronstein.
IYH at 850 Eastern Pkwy, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].
Yossi and Rivki (nee Paris) Horowitz.
IYH at 467 Empire Blvd, [bet Brooklyn and New York Ave].
Dov Dovid and Dini (nee Bernbaum) Sufrin.
IYH at 349 Crown St, Apt 1J, [corner New York Ave]
Chaim Zushe and Rochel (nee Bryn) Margolin.
IYH at Bais Menachem, 1015 NE 172nd Ter, Miami, FL 33162.
Shai and Brushie (nee Liberow) Denburg (Crown Heights) .
Shlomo and Gitty (nee Siegel) Bekhor (Milan, Italy) .
IYH at 1456 Livonia Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90035.
Leibel and Chaya Rochel Lipsker.
IYH at 350 N Orange Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90036.
Yossi and Chani Engel (Shluchim in Adelaide, Australia) .
IYH at 163 Glen Osmond Rd, Frewville SA 5063, Australia.
Stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info! Thank You.
The Rebbe says:
1. With this week’s Torah portion we will read and study a new Book in the Chumash (the five books of Moses). So far this year we have experienced the Book of Bereishis (Genesis), the Book of Shemos (Exodus), the Book of Vayikra (Leviticus) and the Book of Bamidbar (Numbers). This Shabbos we begin the Fifth Book- the Book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).
2. It has become a custom to call this week’s Shabbos (Sabbath) “Shabbos Chazon – The Shabbos of the (prophetic) vision”. This is simply because the Haftorah this week begins with the words, “This is the (prophetic) vision of Yeshayahu son of Amotz…”.
3. The Rebbe brings an additional reason as to why this week’s Shabbos is called “Shabbos Chazon – The Shabbos of the (prophetic) vision”:
This weeks edition of the Crown Heights Newspaper, available for print.
PHOENIX, AZ — Two rabbinical students visited Arizona prisons during the week of July 8-15 as part of The Aleph Institute’s National Summer Visitation Program.
Levi Eisenberg, 22, from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Shalom Goldberg, also 22, from Toronto, met in Arizona on July 6. They rented a car and drove to various prisons around the state, visiting Jewish inmates. After their week in Arizona, they traveled to New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Consistency” (Volume 51, Episode 204)
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
Dear Parents and Educators, sheyichye
In the course of each week I meet people to discuss different issues.
Just last week, a young man sat at the other side of my desk and asked me for advice. He is involved in activities that are not good for his emotional, physical and spiritual health and he was looking for a way out.
In the course of our discussion, we went through each negative behavior and how it began; it all boiled down to that the boy got involved in this detrimental conduct because of a lack of self esteem.
HERNOVTSY, Ukraine [FJC] — Now that the Jewish community of Chernovtsy has succeeded in gaining title to the historical Synagogue on Sadovskiy Street, works aimed at its restoration are in full swing. With respect to the building’s transfer to the local community, fortunately the Chernovtsy City Administration was very cooperative at a time when it really counted.
