CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday, the community celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah, in memory of Reb Mordechai Zvi and Rebetzin Rochel Charitnow. The Torah was completed at the Dubrawsky’s home on Empire Bvd and then a procession was led through the streets on Crown Heights with the new Torah.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aaron and Ellie (nee Minkowicz) Drew (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter, Ahuva.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
Boruch Bongart will be sitting Shiva after the passing of his sister Mrs. Raelene Goldman of S. Diego, California, Shabbos morning. At 1488 Carroll St, [between Albany and Troy Ave] 9:00am – 10:00pm all week.
Shacharis: 9:00 AM
Mincha and Maariv: Bizmana
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
S. DIEGO, CA — For its first-ever fundraising walk, the Friendship Circle of S. Diego, a Chabad-Lubavitch program that pairs teenagers with children with special needs, is dedicating the project to the memory of local community member Jenny Poliakoff, who passed away last year. The event has been named Jenny’s Walk.
A freshman at S. Diego State University when she died, Poliakoff was one of the Friendship Circle’s first volunteers, as well as its most-vocal. She gave the keynote address at its appreciation dinner two years ago.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yoshua Garfinkel (Miami Beach, FL) and Liora (Lauren) Fertel (Bay Harbor, FL) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine [CHI] — The 15th annual Tzivos Hashem Pesach camp has ended. The dedicated counsellors who left their families for Pesach are back home in America. The children have returned to the 12 cities where they came from and the pots and pans are back in storage.
Finally everyone has time to reflect on camp and what an amazing and inspiring time everyone had.
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On my recent trip to Ukraine to celebrate the birthday of my father, I met Sasha, a fellow emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and a student of my father. Sasha’s job is to visit Jews in the most remote corners of Ukraine and reconnect them to their roots. He related to me the following story:
“I recently received a strange phone call from a mining company that was digging near Anipoli, a small town in western Ukraine. They claimed to have discovered what appeared to be a mass Jewish grave from the Holocaust. At once, I dropped everything I was doing and contacted the chevra kadisha in Jerusalem, who immediately dispatched a delegation of rabbis to confirm this and help organize a proper burial and monument for these martyrs. A few weeks later, we decided to follow up with a Shabbaton for the relatives, to honour the memory of the martyrs. I brought along with me a group of young yeshiva boys from Kiev, plenty of kosher food and a portable ark with a Torah. It turned out to be a very moving Shabbat indeed, even beyond our wildest dreams.”
BONDI, NSW, Australia [CHI] — Australia’s Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP, visited the Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW Headquarters in Bondi, on Friday afternoon. In front of a packed audience of over 600, including Jewish community leaders and more than 40 Rabbis, the Prime Minister was presented with a Menorah (Jewish Candelabra) by the Dean and Spiritual Leader of the Yeshiva Centre, Rabbi Pinchus Feldman OAM.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi and Ella (nee Loschak) Potash (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter, Baila Perel.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel!
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] –- Around two hours before Shabbos, a call went out across all 4 division of Shomrim and Police, who called a ‘Level 1 Mobilization’. There were two missing girls, ages eleven and twelve, they were missing for over 4 hours.
More in the Extended Article.
When AgriProcessors, America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, was caught on tape conducting what a federal agency later called “acts of inhumane slaughter,” officials at the plant knew they had been infiltrated by undercover investigators. What the company didn’t know was that two of those infiltrators were a married couple who keep kosher themselves.
Meet Hannah and Philip Schein, undercover investigators for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Now, for the first time, they are going public with their identities.
Since 2002, the Scheins have taken on about 20 undercover cases, as well as others they have conducted publicly. The targets of their stings have run the gamut from an egg farm managed by Trappist monks, to a Canadian bear-baiting operation that has supplied fur to the British Royal Guards, to songstress Beyoncé Knowles, once an enthusiastic wearer of fur.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Over Shabbos and Motzai Shabbos there were three accidents in Crown Heights, the most serious of which took place just as Shabbos ended, where an Israeli Bochur crossed Eastern Parkway and was struck by a passing livery cab, causing injuries and was transported by Hatzalah to Kings County Hospital.
More in the Extended Article.
“Alle Chassidim zainen dem Rebbe’s kinder (”All Chassidim are the Rebbe’s children).“ This the Rebbetzin would say about her husband’s followers. Just as they were his children, they were hers as well.” The following story, as retold by Rabbi Shmuel Lew, Principal of Lubavitch Girls’ School in London, UK, illustrates the Rebbetzin’s maternal care and concern for the “Rebbe’s daughters” of Bais Rivkah.it’s an excerpt from the new book on the Rebbe to see more Visit: www.inspiringageneration.com
“While my oldest daughter Chaya was studying at Bais Rivkah, in New York, my father- and mother-in-law Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Jaffe went to visit the Rebbetzin. It was during Tishrei—the start of the Jewish year, a month full of holidays, and an auspicious time for blessings–so they took along with them other family members, including my daughter.
LAS VEGAS, NV — Jewish students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas were making final preparations Friday for the school’s first-ever mega Shabbat event.
According to freshman Jackie Honig, organizers of the Shabbat100 dinner sponsored by the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center along with Hillel and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity are expecting about 80 people to attend.
“It’s going really well,” she said on Thursday in the midst of handing out flyers. “We’ve been advertising and talking about it a ton.”
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Eliezer Yaakov HaCohen Kahan (London, UK) and Elana Berkun (Chicago, IL / Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
Tomorrow, Chof Ches Nissan marks 17 years to the Sicha the Rebbe said unexpectedly in 5751 after returning from the Ohel. The Rebbe said with great pain “that all that I have done… it is up to you to do all that you can to bring Moshiach down here…” AD MOSAI?!
Click Here To Listen To The Sicha (Courtesy of Sichos.com)
Click Here to see a transcript of the Sicha in Hebrew (PDF)
A translation of excerpts of the Sicha can be read in the Extended Article.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Menchem Mendel ben Sarah Esther
Menucha Rachel Bas Chana
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