Tuesday: KSCVK’s Ice Cream Social! (A)

Come Enjoy an Old-Fashioned, Ice Cream Social, with a large assortment of milk and parve ice cream and top it off with many different toppings. Create Your Own Scrumptious Sundae. Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 22 Iyar, 5768, Oholei Menachem Ballroom, 667 Eastern Parkway, 7:30pm, Admission for Women & Single Girls $18.00.

Click Here for pictures from Second Annual ‘Ice Cream Social’.

More info in full flyer in Extended Article!

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Picture of the Day – Lag Ba’Omer Parade 1960

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The Rebbe addressing the children at a Lag Ba’Omer Parade in the Year 1960.

It’s from the New Book on the Rebbe “The Rebbe Inspiring a Generation” to see more on the book visit www.inspiringageneration.com.

More than 100 Chabad rabbis gather at New City conference

Ben Rubin – The Journal News

Rabbis prepare for a formal picture at yesterday’s regional Chabad conference at the Chabad Lubavitch of Rockland center in New City. (Ben Rubin/The Journal News)

NEW CITY, NY — Before a packed room of fellow rabbis, Avremel Kotlarsky told the audience that they had made huge strides as an organization, but that it would take far more effort to continue growing.

Shluchim Online School Student Retreat

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The shluchim office is pleased to announce a regional Shluchim Online School Student Retreat for young Shluchim in South and Central America.

The regional online school event will be held Iyar 24 (May 29) thru Sivan 2 (June 5), 5768 (2008) in Baranquilla, Colombia, and is being organized by The Shluchim Office and the Shliach of Baranquilla, Rabbi & Mrs. Yossi Liberow.

Lag Ba’Omer in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, MD [CHI] — Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore held a parade on the main road, Park Heights Ave, leading thru the Jewish comunity. 200 people participated, magic juggling show by Michael Rossman, guest speaker Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, Head Shliach of Maryland, and the was MC HaTomim Eliezer Dovid New.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

New Shluchim To Ontario

Rabbi Moishy and Rivky (nee Lepkivker) Goldman will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Waterloo, ON where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the local communities of Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph, as well as the campuses of the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Zalman Aaron Grossbaum, Executive Director of Chabad Lubavitch of Ontario.

Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Mendy Fellig of Waterloo for their assistance to the new Shluchim.

The new Shluchim can be reached via email at rmg@jewishwaterloo.com.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yankel and Chanie (nee Yarmush) Berkowitz on the birth of their daughter, Fraida.

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

Groundbreaking Ushers in Canada’s First Indoor City for Children With Special Needs

Chabad.org

Friendship Circle volunteers Chaya Serraf, left, and Amanda Shitrit play with Justin Diotte in a mock medical office, which will be part of Montreal’s future Friendship Center and Life Village. (Photo: Marketwire)

MONTREAL, Canada — Montreal’s Friendship Circle, a branch of an international Chabad-Lubavitch network that pairs teenage volunteers with children with special needs, broke ground on Canada’s first fully-functioning indoor city and activities center for children with special needs.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yaakov and Chanie Zucker (Shluchim to Key West, FL) on the birth of their son.

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

JLI’s Talmudic Ethics Lesson 3

With JLI’s spring semester, Talmudic Ethics, now underway we are pleased to bring you the weekly video produced to open this weeks class. Over 250 shluchim around the world are teaching Lesson Three this week to almost 13,000 students in what’s being described as JLI’s largest attendance ever. The course is CLE and CME accredited, attracting scores of attorneys and doctors around the country.

Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday

Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, for holiday observance. Because Memorial Day is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect seven days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).

Click here for the 2008 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar

Victim in Crown Heights says Race is Not the Issue

News 12 Brooklyn

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — The young black man who was attacked in Crown Heights last month is asking everyone to stop labeling problems in the area as racial in nature.

“I hope that everyone who has been speaking about the problems in Crown Heights will stop making reference to racial tension,” Andrew Charles said on Friday.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shlomo and Chani (nee Weinstein) Silverman (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.

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

New Shluchim To Florida

Rabbi Yossi and Mrs Mindy (nee Golowinski) Wolff of Crown Heights will IYH be moving on Shlichus to Homestead, FL where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the Jewish residents there as well as the communities of Florida City, Redlands and Alapacha.

The new Shluchim were appointed by Rabbi Yanky Fellig and Florida’s Head Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Korf.

CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!