Father and Son Sing Chabad Tunes With English Lyrics

Mayer and his son Menachem Mendel Rivkin

Infinity Production has announced that they are now in the final phase of recording for the release of CD number 3 by Mayer Rivkin. The new CD, entitled “Wake Up Yidden”, will feature 13 Chabad – Lubavitch and other popular Nigunim with the additions of English lyrics, also known as “Camp Songs”. The lyrics that were joined to these melodies, were mostly written and composed, over the years, by staff members of numerous Chabad run overnight camps, known as Camp Gan Israel.

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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi and Faigy (nee Shomer) Chapley (Monsey, NY) on the birth of their son.

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


Its Official – CO Vega is Being Transfered

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Its official, the commanding officer of the 71st Precinct, Deputy Inspector Frank Vega is being transferred to Staten Island, where he will be promoted to Inspector.

The transfer, which is said to take in affect this Friday, is officially due to sharp rise in crime in the Borough of Staten Island.

Stay tuned to CrownHeights.info as we follow these developments.

Seeing The Best In Society

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — I’m a big believer in people — generally prone to see the best and the possible instead of the worst. But even I was surprised by the depth of generosity I witnessed today.

Hershey Fellig, an orthodox Jew from Los Angeles, desperately needed a kidney. Marisa Hester, a Christian mother-of-two from Alabama, gave one to him. The two were complete strangers. Marisa had never even met a Jewish person before. She read about Hershey online and made the selfless decision to help.

Five Youths Released Over Beating of Jewish Teen in Paris

Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin confirmed the anti-Semitic character of the aggression.” Anti-Semitic insults – like “dirty Jew” – were shouted during the aggression, he said.

PARIS, France [EJP] — Five youths detained after a Jewish teenager was beaten into a coma by a gang in Paris have been released without charge, AFP reported Wednesday quoting judicial officials.

The minors, aged 14 to 17, were held for questioning as witnesses following Saturday’s attack in the multi-ethnic 19th district of the capital.

Mazal Tov! – 3 Wednesday Night L’Chaims!

Sholom Eichler (Crown Heights) and Rivka Piamenta (Kfar Chabad) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St. [bet New York and Nostrand Ave].

Bentzy Geisinsky (Crown Heights) and Mussia Arnov (Paris, France) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Levi Bonnardel (Aventura, FL) and Esti Hershkowitz (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].

Shabbaton Entitled “Wine, Dine, Touch the Divine”

YARDLEY, PA [CHI] — Rabbi Yehuda Shemtov of Yardley, PA recently held a Shabbaton for his community in which over 100 people attended.

The title of the Shabbaton was “Wine, Dine, Touch the Divine”. He brought down a fellow Shliach who has an interesting and very informative wine presentation that combines wine and spirituality.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Bentzy Geisinsky (Crown Heights) and Mussia Arnov (Paris, France) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Wednesday at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Video of the Day! – Dedication of a new Torah!

Chabad of Thousand Oaks, California was honored to receive a Torah, generously donated by Rabbi Mordechai and Ethel Bryski in memory of their parents (great-grandparents of Rabbi Chaim Bryski, Rabbi of Chabad of Thousand Oaks), survivors of the Holocaust.

This scroll was rescued from the Holocaust as well, and was painstakingly restored before coming to its permanent home at the Thousand Oaks Jewish Center.

200 Attorneys and Judges attend Chabad’s 2nd Annual Jewish Law Symposium

L. to R. Rabbi Shalom Lubin, Executive Director Chabad of SE Morris County, Hon. Barry T. Albin, Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Hon. Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

MORRIS TOWNSHIP, NJ [CHI] — On Tuesday, June 17th, an overflow crowd of 200 attorneys and judges packed The Madison Hotel in Morris Township to attend Chabad of SE Morris County’s 2nd Annual Jewish Law Symposium.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photo By Tom Verniero)

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Levi Bonnardel (Aventura, FL) and Esti Hershkowitz (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Wednesday at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].


Lubavitcher Yeshiva Chovevei Torah Announces this Year’s Talmidim HaShluchim

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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This year Chovevei Torah has selected 16 Bochurim who will be dispatched to Yeshivos around the world as Talmidim HaShluchim and will provide more personal attention in the learning environment as well as assist in the Mivtzoim Programs.

Yesterday the Menahel Ruchny R. Kalmen Wienfeld took the list of Bochurim to the Ohel and the Rebbes Room, followed by a meeting with R. Dovid Raskin, Menahel of the Central Lubavitcher Yeshiva, who pointed out the Rebbe’s terms for Bochurim going out on Shlichus.

To view the full list of Bochurim click the Extended Article!

Have Torah, Will Travel

Pat Gee – Star Bulletin

Rabbi Shmulik Schneerson (at right), a visiting emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch in New York, has just wrapped a black leather strap called the “tefillin” around the arm of a man (at left with his son) at the recent Israeli Day Festival. A special prayer, handwritten on parchment, is placed within the tefillin, which Orthodox Jewish men put on every day.

HONOLULU, HI — A young rabbi visiting Hawaii has seen the world’s remote corners as he seeks out Jews. When Rabbi Shmulik Schneerson takes his Torah on the road, there’s no place he won’t go to minister to Jews.