Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Baruch Zvi and Dini Friedman (S Paul, MN) on the birth of a baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
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New Project Aids Schoolchildren in Moscow
MOSCOW, Russia – Considering the fact that only two weeks remain until the new school year begins in schools across the Former Soviet Union, a new project has commenced aimed at helping youngsters to get ready for this event. While some families will be sending their child to school for the first time, others may simply need assistance in preparing for September 1st due to reasons of financial incapacity.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yehuda Zinnerich (S Antonio, TX) and Yaakova Speiser (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
Four years ago, I received a burned CD copy of an unreleased album. Hastily written on the disc in black marker was the band’s name, The Marcus Brothers. The CD contained an album-worth of explicitly Orthodox rock. It was something of an underground Chabad secret, the group’s core members two real-life brothers, one of them a Lubavitcher emissary in California.
Video of them performing in the Extended Article!
Yeshiva of Rock
Four years ago, I received a burned CD copy of an unreleased album. Hastily written on the disc in black marker was the band’s name, The Marcus Brothers. The CD contained an album-worth of explicitly Orthodox rock. It was something of an underground Chabad secret, the group’s core members two real-life brothers, one of them a Lubavitcher emissary in California.
Video of them performing in the Extended Article!
Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Dina bas Leah
carry the coffin of Prof. Liviu Librescu.
A Hasidic group from Borough Park, Brooklyn, picked up his body and arranged a funeral service.
Representatives of that group were present for the autopsy of Auxiliary Police Officer Eugene Marshalik after he was gunned down in Greenwich Village on March.
The Ultimate Good Deed
Hasidic volunteers give faithful aftercare to Jews who die
carry the coffin of Prof. Liviu Librescu.
Prof. Liviu Librescu grew up in Nazi-occupied Romania, immigrated to Israel and later relocated to Virginia, where he was killed in April in a Virginia Tech classroom.
A Hasidic group from Borough Park, Brooklyn, picked up his body and arranged a funeral service.
Representatives of that group were present for the autopsy of Auxiliary Police Officer Eugene Marshalik after he was gunned down in Greenwich Village on March.
STAMFORD, CT [CHI] — Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) recently purchased a new home in Stamford Connecticut today and will G-d willing be moving in shortly from his home in New Haven.
Immediately following the closing on he asked Rabbi Yisrael Deren, Shliach in Stamford, and his wife Shifra Aviva to come help affix Mezuzahs on the doors in the home as well as to show him and his wife what needed to be done to kosher the kitchen.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Sen. Lieberman: “My love for the Shluchim just keeps growing”
STAMFORD, CT [CHI] — Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) recently purchased a new home in Stamford Connecticut today and will G-d willing be moving in shortly from his home in New Haven.
Immediately following the closing on he asked Rabbi Yisrael Deren, Shliach in Stamford, and his wife Shifra Aviva to come help affix Mezuzahs on the doors in the home as well as to show him and his wife what needed to be done to kosher the kitchen.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We want to give special thanks to the medical team from Medical University South Carolina headed by Dr. Joel B. Cochran for saving her life and stabilizing Orah Meital so that she was able to be transferred to New York. We also give our tremendous thanks to Dr. Phil Lanzkowsky, Medical Director of Schneider’s Children's Hospital for accepting her and making all the necessary arrangements.
More in the Extended Article.
Important News and Medical Update regarding Orah Meital Habosha
With Hashems help, We would like to thank everyone for all the good wishes, calls, Hachlatot and Mitzvot taken and being done Lezchut Orah Meital bat Bella for a full and speedy recovery. We are extremely touched and appreciative by the tremendous outpour of Chesed and Achdut shown by our community and from the greater Jewish community world-wide.
We want to give special thanks to the medical team from Medical University South Carolina headed by Dr. Joel B. Cochran for saving her life and stabilizing Orah Meital so that she was able to be transferred to New York. We also give our tremendous thanks to Dr. Phil Lanzkowsky, Medical Director of Schneider’s Children’s Hospital for accepting her and making all the necessary arrangements.
More in the Extended Article.
BROOKLYN, NY — On August 22, 1978, Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway was designated a scenic landmark. Stretching from Grand Army Plaza through Crown Heights to Ralph Avenue, this parkway introduced some of the advanced urban planning concepts of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the designers of Central and Prospect Parks.
It was planned in 1866 as one of a complex of boulevards emanating from Prospect Park, with a central artery for through traffic and side roads for local use, separated by landscaped malls.
More in the Extended Article!
On This Day in History: August 22 – Eastern Parkway Designated Landmark
BROOKLYN, NY — On August 22, 1978, Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway was designated a scenic landmark. Stretching from Grand Army Plaza through Crown Heights to Ralph Avenue, this parkway introduced some of the advanced urban planning concepts of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the designers of Central and Prospect Parks.
It was planned in 1866 as one of a complex of boulevards emanating from Prospect Park, with a central artery for through traffic and side roads for local use, separated by landscaped malls.
More in the Extended Article!
Rabbi Zvi and Mrs Chayale (nee Greenberg) Hershcovich are moving on Shlichus to Stavropol, in the former Soviet Union. (As we have reported yesterday)
Help support their wonderful activities by emailing RabbiZvi44@yahoo.com!
Video of the Day – The New Shluchim to Stavropol!
Rabbi Zvi and Mrs Chayale (nee Greenberg) Hershcovich are moving on Shlichus to Stavropol, in the former Soviet Union. (As we have reported yesterday)
Help support their wonderful activities by emailing RabbiZvi44@yahoo.com!
“It is with great pleasure that youth are coming to the Synagogue, where the classes take place,” explained Efim Basin, Assistant to Rabbi Rabinovich. “Here, these young adults have exhibited remarkable interest in studying Judaica, Jewish philosophy, traditions and culture.”
Summer Studies for Belarus’ Jewish Youth
BREST, Belarus — One year since the ‘STARS’ program was introduced by the Jewish community of Brest, its educational activities did not cease during the summer. Rabbi Chaim Rabinovich, a Chabad Lubavitch emissary and the primary instructor for this course, has been busily guiding students involved in this initiative, offering instruction and answering their many questions.
“It is with great pleasure that youth are coming to the Synagogue, where the classes take place,” explained Efim Basin, Assistant to Rabbi Rabinovich. “Here, these young adults have exhibited remarkable interest in studying Judaica, Jewish philosophy, traditions and culture.”
My Encounter Encounters London
LONDON, England [CHI] — As part of the ongoing oral history project documenting the story of the Rebbe’s life, Jewish Educational Media recently dispatched a team to London, England.
The team, with extensive experience in collecting oral histories, was led by My Encounter with the Rebbe producer, Rabbi Yechiel Cagen and Shmulie Shmotkin. Across seven days of testimony, they documented the Rebbe’s unique relationship with a number of individuals from England’s capital. They were joined by a camera crew led by Alan Buckley, an expert videographer with extensive experience filming interviews and documentary features for the BBC and other prestigious news outlets.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Mazal Tov! – 2 Wednesday Night L’Chaim!
Machluf Krispine (Lod, Israel / Crown Heights) and Malky Ladaev (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway, [bet Albany and Troy].
Avremi Chein (Crown Heights) and Shifra Rockford (Coral Springs, FL) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave]
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
Montevideo, Uruguay — In Uruguay, cows outnumber people five to one. Half of the South American nation's more than 3 million people live outside of its capital city, Montevideo, scattered across some 68,000 square miles. It counts as one of the least densely populated countries in the world.
Where Cows Outnumber People, Roving Rabbis Reach Out to Uruguayís Jews
Montevideo, Uruguay — In Uruguay, cows outnumber people five to one. Half of the South American nation’s more than 3 million people live outside of its capital city, Montevideo, scattered across some 68,000 square miles. It counts as one of the least densely populated countries in the world.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Aryeh and Sasha Henya (nee Nerenberg) Kay (Crown Heights) on the birth of their baby girl!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
He was one of many haredim to board my plane, a strange counterpart to the high-heeled, flashy Ukrainians – mothers and daughters alike – with bare midriffs and summer bronzed skin.
The Kharkov Camp Question.
Kharkov, Ukraine –- My introduction to Ukraine began in the check-in line at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Despite torrential rains, our flight was scheduled to leave on time, according to a Ukrainian man standing behind me who spoke in a heavily accented English. Nervous to be flying on the Ukrainian national airline, I turned to him for assurance that AeroSvit would get me there in one piece. Unfortunately, he had none to offer – he hadn’t been back to his birthplace in the 14 years since he immigrated to the US. Instead assurance came via a young haredi, who seemed ready to vouch for the airline.
He was one of many haredim to board my plane, a strange counterpart to the high-heeled, flashy Ukrainians – mothers and daughters alike – with bare midriffs and summer bronzed skin.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday at around 10 PM, a group of teens went around terrorizing the community. The group started out at Union St and New York Ave where they attempted to mug a bochur, and then fled down Union St and mugged another Bochur between Brooklyn Ave and Kingston Ave.
More in the Extended Article
Muggings Terrorizing Community
Crown Heights, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday at around 10 PM, a group of teens went around terrorizing the community. The group started out at Union St and New York Ave where they attempted to mug a bochur, and then fled down Union St and mugged another Bochur between Brooklyn Ave and Kingston Ave.
More in the Extended Article
