BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Hundreds of sons and daughters of shluchim the world over were virtually united this past Friday, as the Chinuch Yaldei Hashluchim Online School, a division of The Shluchim Office, staged a massive online rally to mark the joyous holiday of Lag B’omer.
Logging on to the CYH website, the children were able to participate from the comfort of their homes or Chabad House as the live online rally unfolded.
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Over 40 college students from as far as Montreal, California, Florida, Philadelphia and as local as NJ’s Rutgers University, joined together this past weekend for an inspiring and enriched weekend at Yeshiva Tiferes Bachrim, Morristown, NJ.
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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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.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Shmuel HaLevi ben Margalit Esther
Rochel bas Aida
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.
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.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Hershy and Chanie (nee Levin) Hertzel (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter, Zelda Rochel.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel Brody (Miami, FL) and Chaya (bas R Avrohom Yitzchok) Silverstein (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info
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
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.
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