WILMINGTON, DE — At sunrise, men drift into the Chabad Center of Delaware and welcome the day, like Abraham, with prayers of joy and gratitude.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A young woman on her way to work this morning was accosted by a large Black male who tried to steal her phone. The incident took place at around 8:30am on President Street between Brooklyn and New York Avenues, where the perpetrator approached her, blocked her path and demanded her phone.
She immediately began calling for help and fled, the perp did not follow. The perp was described to be in his early 20’s and heavyset. Following the incident the woman called 911 to file a police report and after waiting for an extended period of time she left the scene without filing a police report.
SYDNEY, Australia — Unveiling JLI as the largest adult education network in Australia. For the first time, the Australian JLI affiliates gathered for a regional conference to launch the new JLI semester for 5768. Unveiling JLI as the largest Australian network for adult education, the program was held at the Chabad House of the North Shore in Sydney, where its director, Rabbi Nochum Shapiro is the Chairman of JLI in Australia.
WASHINGTON, DC — Maybe he gained a lot of chutzpah when he lost 100 pounds. Whatever the case, even those who have seen firsthand the incredible transformation of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) from 338 pounds to somewhere just upwards of 200 may still be surprised to learn that he can scale high walls like a pole vaulter.
FREEHOLD, NJ — The Township Committee recently adopted changes to the municipality’s land use code to modify the words “church” and “churches” and the phrase “places of worship” to read houses of worship.”
The change stems from an ongoing legal case involving Rabbi Avraham Bernstein, a member of Chabad Lubavitch, a worldwide Jewish organization headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., who has lived on Stillwells Corner Road directly across from the municipal building since 1998.
ANNAPOLIS, MD — Next month’s meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will turn international media attention to Annapolis. But one Jewish community in the city is enjoying a different focus.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Menny Antian (Crown Heights) and Hindy Zucker (Crown Heights/Israel) on their engagement
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
TALLAHASSEE, FL — Saying it is ”fundamental” to freedom to be able to display ”religious symbols,” Gov. Charlie Crist has quietly placed a boxed Jewish scroll on the door leading into his formal Capitol office.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuly and Rochel (nee Hyams) Brashevitzky (Crown Heights) on the birth of their baby boy!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
MANCHESTER, England — Sukkos is the Yom Tov of achdus, of unity, symbolized by the Sukkah. Dwelling in the Sukkah is the one mitzah that involves a person’s whole body. In the sukkah we are surrounded by the mitzvah.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Rechama Aliza Sara Chana bas Esther Liba. She was rushed back to the hospital with a high fever and has some sort of infection.
Mindle bas Machla. She is going into surgery on Thursday.
Shayna Leah Yehudis bas Mindel Chana.
Dovid ben Chaya Sarah.
Moshe Michel ben Rachel.
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine -– Almost immediately after learning about the explosion that destroyed most of a large multi-level residential apartment complex in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, the Jewish community began to render what support it can to those who have suffered from this incident.
We would like Yechiel Shlomo and Rochi (nee Kirsh) Levitansky (Shluchim to Sumy, Ukraine) on the birth of their baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Mrs. Dasha Spira Lewin, a proud Holocaust survivor who became a top executive with the Neutrogena Corporation and a generous friend of Chabad, will be honored at a memorial service held at the Bais Sonya Gutte campus on Schneerson Square at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17. Mrs. Lewin passed away on September 11, and was laid to rest beside her husband, Maury, in Prague’s Jewish Cemetery.
“..However here in the United States we have a different audience and a youth which radically differs from the type whom Rabbi Hirsch had addressed originally…” -The Rebbe
The following is a very unique letter of the Rebbe. From the year 1962 to a Professor at Yeshiva University, in which the Rebbe explains the nature of today’s American Jewish youth and why they can’t relate to Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch’s (“The Father of Modern German Orthodoxy”) approach to Judaism of “Torah v’Derech Eretz” .
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“I must touch upon another, and even more delicate, matter concerning the teachings of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch whom you mentioned in your letter. There has been a tendency lately to apply his approach in totality, here and now In U.S. America While it is understandable that the direct descendents of Rabbi Hirsch or those who were brought up in that philosophy should want to disseminate his teachings.
GREEN BAY, WI — If you’re going to have a kosher tailgate at Lambeau Field, you might as well go all the way.
That means you light up the coals of the kosher grill and bring out the kosher hot dogs, beef, chicken and brats.
NEWTON, MA — A fast-growing Orthodox Jewish community that has battled the city for nearly five years scored a major victory last week, defeating the last municipal obstacle to building a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in a residential neighborhood in Newton Highlands.
By a vote of 19 to 3, the Board of Aldermen approved Beth Menachem Chabad’s plan to provide just nine parking spaces alongside its new center at 349 Dedham St., at least 60 fewer spaces than zoning rules would generally require.
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