Mazal Tov! – Motzoei Shabbos L’Chaim!
Yissi Freeman (Crown Heights) and Esther Chana Neistein (N Miami Beach, FL) .
IYH at 1340 Carroll St, [between Brooklyn and Kingston Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
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We Are Changing The Clock Motzoei Shabbos
Motzoei Shabbos at 2:00am we change our clocks 1 hour back to 1:00am, and gain an hour of sleep.
So make sure to change your clocks before you get to bed as to avoid any confusion (and being an hour early to everything).
A Gutten Shabbos/Voch.
Note: To learn more about “Standard Time” and “Daylight Savings time” Click on them.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yisroel Cohen (Pittsburgh, PA) and Rishi Kaminetzky (Melbourne, Australia) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
Mazal Tov! – 12 Sholom Zochors this Week!
Shloimi and Rochel (nee Brook) Frishman.
IYH at 512 Montgomery St, [bet New York and Brooklyn Ave].
Beryl and Shani Junik.
IYH at 1366 Carroll St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Chaim and Chani Rosen.
IYH at1282 Carroll St, [bet Brooklyn and New York Ave].
Leibel and Chaya Sara Perlow.
IYH at 784 Montgomery St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].
Benzion and Faigy (nee Grossbaum) Treitel.
IYH at 595 Lefferts Ave, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].
Yehuda and Saral’e Adelist.
IYH at 645 Lefferts Ave, Apt 1G, [bet Albany and Troy Ave].
Shaya and Miriam Rochester.
IYH at 352 Crown St, [bet New York and Brooklyn Ave].
Menashe. and Ilanit Borbely.
IYH at 52 Jill Ln, Monsey, NY.
Shlomie and Gruni (nee Lipskar) Diamond.
IYH at 4565 N Michigan Ave, Miami Beach, FL.
Yeacheal and Shoshana Tarshish.
IYH at 6559 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL.
Gershon and Devorah Sandler (Shluchim to Los Angeles, CA) .
IYH at 822 N. Alta Vista, Los Angeles, CA.
Eli and Elisheva (nee Aron) Boymelgreen (Jerusalem, Israel) .
Please 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.
SYDNEY, Australia — Bringing sandwiches to evacuees, preparing soft beds for exhausted firefighters, Chabad’s response to crisis– wildfires, tsunamis, hurricanes, explosions – proves its universal commitments to goodness and kindness.
In Sydney, a 3,200 square foot example of Chabad’s service to the community a large opened.
Down Under, Chabad Builds A Kitchen, Everyone’s At the Table
SYDNEY, Australia — Bringing sandwiches to evacuees, preparing soft beds for exhausted firefighters, Chabad’s response to crisis– wildfires, tsunamis, hurricanes, explosions – proves its universal commitments to goodness and kindness.
In Sydney, a 3,200 square foot example of Chabad’s service to the community a large opened.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Meir Litzman (Monsey, NY) and Miriam Rachmani (Boston, MA) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzoei Shabbos at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
Jewish Community Promotes Inter-Ethnic Accord
S. PETERSBURG, Russia — This week in Russia’s northern capital, the City Administration and community groups hosted the public campaign “March Against Hate”. Mark Grubarg, the Chairman of the Jewish community of S. Petersburg, took part in this event – a gathering whose objective is to demonstrate against inter-ethnic and inter-religious hatred. This movement was inspired by the memory of renowned ethnographer Nikolai Girenko, who was brutally murdered by nationalists in 2004.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yissi Freeman (Crown Heights) and Esther Chana Neistein (N Miami Beach, FL) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Motzoei Shabbos at 1340 Carroll St, [between Brooklyn and Kingston Ave].
BROOKLYN, NY — Last minute preparations are proceeding at full pace at Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York as the clock ticks down until the annual International Conference of Shluchim. The conference, known among the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who attend simply as the kinus ñ an abbreviated form of its name in Hebrew ñ begins Nov. 7. For five days, almost 3,000 shluchim from all over the world will attend sessions and share strategies about how best to reach Jews in every corner of the globe.
Thousands to Attend International Conference of Shluchim in New York Next Week
BROOKLYN, NY — Last minute preparations are proceeding at full pace at Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York as the clock ticks down until the annual International Conference of Shluchim. The conference, known among the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who attend simply as the kinus ñ an abbreviated form of its name in Hebrew ñ begins Nov. 7. For five days, almost 3,000 shluchim from all over the world will attend sessions and share strategies about how best to reach Jews in every corner of the globe.
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The Weekly Comic – Parshas Chayei Sarah
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The Torah dedication is in honor of the fourth Yortziet of R. Moshe Noach ben R. Shloime and his wife Devorah Raizel bas R. Yitzchok OB”M. The event will take place and the Torah is being donated to the ‘Chabad Israeli Center of Rockville, MD’ at 216 Rollings Ave, Rockville, MD. IYH this Sunday, November 4th 12 PM. (Click here for pictures of the “Hascholas Safer Torah”).
More info in the Extended Article!
Torah Dedication Ceremony in Maryland
The Torah dedication is in honor of the fourth Yortziet of R. Moshe Noach ben R. Shloime and his wife Devorah Raizel bas R. Yitzchok OB”M. The event will take place and the Torah is being donated to the ‘Chabad Israeli Center of Rockville, MD’ at 216 Rollings Ave, Rockville, MD. IYH this Sunday, November 4th 12 PM. (Click here for pictures of the “Hascholas Safer Torah”).
More info in the Extended Article!
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Jewish Feminism” (Volume 41, Episode 164).
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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
Video of the Day – the Weekly Living Torah Clip
This weeks Living Torah, titled “Jewish Feminism” (Volume 41, Episode 164).
Living Torah is a member supported project Become a member today at LivingTorah.org
Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
1. The first verse of this week’s Torah portion is, “Sarah’s lifetime was one hundred years, and twenty years, and seven years; the years of Sarah’s life”.
The Zohar learns out from this verse that “Sarah” is a hint to the body of a person and Avraham Avinu (Abraham our Forefather) is a hint to the Soul of a person .
2. The Rebbe now asks a question based on this:
The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Chayei Sarah
The Rebbe says:
1. The first verse of this week’s Torah portion is, “Sarah’s lifetime was one hundred years, and twenty years, and seven years; the years of Sarah’s life”.
The Zohar learns out from this verse that “Sarah” is a hint to the body of a person and Avraham Avinu (Abraham our Forefather) is a hint to the Soul of a person .
2. The Rebbe now asks a question based on this:
Robots and computers have been eliminating human jobs at what some might consider an alarming rate, but the sacred work of Torah scribes seems like something only humans could do.
The Holy Robot?!?!
Robots and computers have been eliminating human jobs at what some might consider an alarming rate, but the sacred work of Torah scribes seems like something only humans could do.
KIEV, Ukraine — The Simcha School in Kiev, Ukraine, caught fire Wednesday evening in what officials suspected was an act of arson committed by anti-Semites.
Firefighters had the last of the flames put out by 5 p.m., according to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Mordechai Levenhartz, principal of the school, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary.
Fire Strikes Kiev School
KIEV, Ukraine — The Simcha School in Kiev, Ukraine, caught fire Wednesday evening in what officials suspected was an act of arson committed by anti-Semites.
Firefighters had the last of the flames put out by 5 p.m., according to Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Mordechai Levenhartz, principal of the school, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary.
This is an editorial in response to recent comments by Rabbi Eric Yoffie.
ITHACA, NY — In a recent editorial, Reform leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie criticizes the willingness o Chabad to allow any child a bar mitzvah. He describes the norm of othe congregations to require family synagogue membership and attendance i Hebrew school for a year or more before allowing children to be bar-mitzvahed He cites this practice as necessary for ensuring that the bar mitzvah will not be “withou meaning, an excuse for a party.” And he accuses Chabad of becoming a “purveyor o Jewish minimalism, lowering educational standards for our children and the community, teaching the lesson that “Judaism is not a serious endeavor and that even the mos significant milestones require only a modicum of commitment.
Re: The Good and Bad of Chabad – Chabad On The Bar/Bat Mitzvah: It’s Your Jewish Birthright!
This is an editorial in response to recent comments by Rabbi Eric Yoffie.
ITHACA, NY — In a recent editorial, Reform leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie criticizes the willingness o Chabad to allow any child a bar mitzvah. He describes the norm of othe congregations to require family synagogue membership and attendance i Hebrew school for a year or more before allowing children to be bar-mitzvahed He cites this practice as necessary for ensuring that the bar mitzvah will not be “withou meaning, an excuse for a party.” And he accuses Chabad of becoming a “purveyor o Jewish minimalism, lowering educational standards for our children and the community, teaching the lesson that “Judaism is not a serious endeavor and that even the mos significant milestones require only a modicum of commitment.
Mazal Tov! – Its a Boy!
We would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to Benzion and Faigy (nee Grossbaum) Treitel (Crown Heights) on the birth of the their firstborn baby boy!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
