CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — JEM is pleased to announce that in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the passing of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, on the 22nd of Shevat a new DVD will be released. The DVD features interviews with Dr. Ira Weiss, Mrs. Leah Kahan, and numerous others who knew and interacted with the Rebbetzin.
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Bentzi and Mashi (nee Moscowitz) Butman.
IYH at 679 Montgomery St, Apt 2G, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].
Dovid and Hindy (nee Gray) Harrison.
IYH at 374 New York Ave, [bet Carroll and Crown St].
Eli and Shayna Eliav.
IYH at 770 Lefferts Ave, Apt B1L, [bet Troy and Schenectady Ave].
Ushi and Chani (nee Bukiet) Steinmetz (Brooklyn, NY) .
Chaim Meir and Yael (nee Nates) Tessler.
IYH at 35 E 35th St, New York, NY.
Benjy and Leah Brackman (Shluchim to Westminster, CO) .
IYH at the Chabad House on 4505 W 112th Ave, Westminster, CO.
Shai and Chany (nee Zagury) Vaknin (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) .
What is a Sholom Zochor?
It is customary to make a party or get-together for friends and family on the first Friday night (Shabbat) after a baby boy is born. This is called a “Sholom Zochor,” loosely translated as “a time for wishing peace to the male child.”
The Sholom Zochor is usually held in the home of the newborn following the Shabbat meal. Refreshments are served and words of Torah are shared. This gathering is used an opportunity to publicly thank God for the baby’s successful entrance to the world. The gathering also celebrates the newborn’s first Shabbat, since the baby must experience the sanctity of Shabbat before he can be circumcised.
In addition, the Midrash relates that a child is taught Torah in the womb, and then forgets it at birth in order that he toil to learn it again. The Sholom Zochor is meant as a consolation of sorts for having forgotten the Torah. For this reason many people serve beans or chickpeas at the Sholom Zochor, since these are foods served at the house of a mourner.
Stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info! Thank You.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Thursday night the mispalelim of the Beis Shmuel gathered for a Yud Shvat Farbrengen with Rabbi Avremel Shemtov head Shliach to the State of Pennsylvania.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chaim Benjaminson (Crown Heights) and Rochi Rapoport (Toronto, Canada) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
QUEENS, NY — Tens of thousands of people descended on Cambria Heights, N.Y., to pray at the resting places of the last two Chabad-Lubavitch leaders. Thursday marked the Hebrew anniversary of the 1950 passing of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, and the day exactly one year later that his son-in-law, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, formally accepted the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel Gurary (Cholon, Israel) and Chaya Levin (Kensington, NY) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
The Annual Kinnus Hatmimim Haolomi (the International Convention of Tmimim) and Farbrengen at Rosa Hall Campus Chomesh, now live, click below to watch!!
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CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, NY [CHI] — Seventy years of oppression and indoctrination can wipe out a lot of memories…. For some kids of parents who left the former Soviet Union for America, even words like “Jewish” and “Torah” and Shabbos may be shrouded in mystery.
But during a week in the Catskills, a group of boys aged 10-14 created their own Jewish memories even as they enjoyed a dream winter vacation filled with skiing, snow-tubing, and other winter sports at Camp FREE-Gan Israel’s winter camp.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Bentzi and Mashi (nee Moscowitz) Butman (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.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
QUEENS, NY — A wild accident left a trucker critically injured and five firefighters hurt Thursday when a U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer smashed into a fire engine in Queens, police said.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Mr. Mauricio Macri, the Mayor of Buenos Aires City, visited with the children of the acclaimed Ieladeinu child care services, at the Perla Rohr home earlier this week.
The Rebbe says:
1. The Rebbe begins talking about his father-in-law, the Previous Rebbe, who’s day of passing we commemorate on Yud Shvat:
The Previous Rebbe writes in his diary that when he was a baby of eight days old and was receiving his Bris Mila (circumcision) he began to cry. His grandfather the Rebbe Maharash then said to him, “Why are you crying? When you grow up you will be a…(the Previous Rebbe left a blank spot here) and will say Chassidus in a clear fashion”.
Chassidim have told me that the missing word from the Previous Rebbe’s diary is “Rebbe”; the Rebbe Maharash said, “When you grow up you will be a Rebbe and will say Chassidus in a clear fashion”. This of course sheds light on why the Previous Rebbe left a blank spot (he did not feel it would be becoming to write that).
NEW YORK, NY — The release this week of a series of letters penned by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, has shed new light on the Rebbe’s focus on the special qualities of each and every individual.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CH] — The Rofe Cholim Chayim Society, Crown Heights Chapter, invites you to a lavish Melava Malka, this Motzoei Shabbos, Parshas Beshalach, January 19th 2008 at 7:30 PM, at the Razag Ballroom, 739 E New York Ave, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
More info and full flyer in the Extended Article!
Yud Shvat (the Tenth of Shvat) is the Previous Rebbe’s yahrzeit, the anniversary of his passing. On the day of a tzaddik’s passing, “all his effort… for which he toiled throughout his life… becomes revealed and radiates downward… at the time of his passing.”Accordingly, Yud Shvat is an appropriate day to focus on the message of the Previous Rebbe’s life, for every year, these same spiritual qualities are revealed on this anniversary.
This revelation affects all of “his children, the work of his hands,” those who “will walk in his paths for eternity.” This is particularly true in regard to the yahrzeit of a nasi, a leader of the Jewish people. For a nasi is connected to every member of his generation; as Rashi states, “The nasi is the entire people.”
Continued in the Extended Article.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Last night the mispalelim of the Empire Shtibel gathered for a Yud Shvat Farbrengen with Rabbi Yisroel Gordon.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
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