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Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yankel and Pessa Rochel (nee Katz) Lipsidge (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

Victim of Anti-Semitic Attack Settles Civil Claim Against Authorities

The Age
On the left Menachem Vorchheimer after the assault. On the right Simon Christian, one of three men charged over an alleged race hate attack leaves court.

A Jewish man has settled claims against the State Government and Victoria Police resulting from his racial abuse by members of a country football team.

Menachem Vorchheimer was smiling yesterday outside the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal after the settlements were announced before the tribunal’s vice-president, Judge Marilyn Harbison.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel and Hadas (nee Parks) Zaetz (Shluchim to S. Francisco State University) on birth of their daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

Photo Gallery: Visiting Day in CGI NY

The second and final visiting day took place today, Sunday. Parents came in from the city and nearby bungalow colonies to spend the day with their children in camps in the Catskill Mountains.

The following is a photo gallery of Gan Israel, Parksville, NY.

Over 100 beautiful pictures in the Extended Article!

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avi and Mashie (nee Bronstein) Rapoport (Atlantic City, NJ) on the birth of their daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Chana Baila (nee Bryski) Rutman (Boca Raton, FL) on the birth of their daughter-Rivkah.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

Around a Bon Fire in Mei Menuchos

S. FALLSBURG, NY [CHI] – In the Catskill Mountains the nights grow cold and family’s in the Mei Menuchos (pleasant waters) Bungalow Colony gathered around a warm fire in a kumzitz, some baking potatoes and marshmallows and sharing stories of the Baal Shemtov.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal tov to Yisrolik and Leah (nee Groner) Levin (Charlotte, NC) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!

NYPD’s Chosen Guns

NY Post

ORTHODOX COP CADETS MAKE FORCE KOSHER

NEW YORK, NY — Didja hear the one about the cop who walked into a doughnut shop and asked for a bagel and a shmear?

You will soon. The NYPD is adding 10 Orthodox Jews, including one woman, to their ranks. That’s the largest Orthodox contingent ever in the department’s latest cadet class.

New Shluchim to Pennsylvania!

CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Greenberg have recently moved on Shlichus to Bethlehem, PA., where they will IYH establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the Jewish students and faculty at Lehigh University.

The Greenbergs were appointed by Rabbi and Mrs. Yaacov Halperin, Shluchim to the Greater Lehigh Valley under the auspices of Rabbi and Mrs Avraham Shemtov, Shluchim of Philadelphia.

This has been made possible by the Rohr Family Foundation.

A Special thanks to Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and Chabad on Campus International.

Major Development in the Shlichus World

Stock Photo – Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum being sworn in as Chaplain Captain to the Maryland Defense Force, Chaplain LTC Charles Nalls officating. Photo courtesy of Maryland Defense Force.

The United States army has just allowed chaplains to wear beards, opening up army chaplaincy positions to Lubavitchers for the first time.

The Aleph Institute is looking to fill this unique opportunity to become a full Shliach as a Military Chaplain in the US Army. The army is looking for Jewish chaplains to service the thousands of Yidden (and their wives, kids and families) that are in the army.

More in the Extended Article

Info to be Menachem Avel the Paley’s & Tauber’s

The Paley and Tauber families are sitting shiva after the passing of Yocheved Chaya Rochel (nee Tauber) Paley. Her husband, Yakov Paley. Her parents, Berel and Esther Tauber, her brothers, Yanky, Yossi, Shlomie, Menachem and Baruch Tauber and her sisters, Chani Winner, Mindy Wallach and Pessi Stolik are all sitting at 536 Crown St, [between Kingston and Albany Ave].

Shacharis at 8:30.
Mincha at 7:40.
Maariv at 9:30.

Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.

Chicago-Area Camp Shows Children are Never Too Young to Learn Hebrew

By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky

Campers sing along at Keitana B’Ivrit, a Hebrew immersion summer camp run by Chabad-Lubavitch of Skokie, Ill.

SKOKIE, IL — How much Hebrew can an American preschooler pick up over the course of a six-week summer camp?