Philadelphia, PA — Art aficionados look forward to First Fridays, when they can browse everything from contemporary to classical paintings at open house galleries. At one Philadelphia gallery, visitors are also experiencing Shabbat as it morphs from the abstract to the impressionistic with the help of the local Chabad-Lubavitch representatives.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman and Hennie (nee Perlow) Edelman (Melbourne, Australia) on the birth of their son
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Kiev, Ukraine — Once a relatively obscure rabbi, Moishe-Leyb Kolesnik is now a budding celebrity throughout Ukraine.
“I saw you on national television – quite often I hear this on the street,” said Kolesnik, a Chabad Lubavitch rabbi in his native town of Ivano-Frankovsk in western Ukraine.
The rabbi owes his sudden wave of fame to several appearances on “613,” a Jewish-themed show that is broadcast biweekly on UT-1, the main state-run channel in Ukraine. According to Kolesnik, most of those who recognize him on the street are non-Jews, as are the majority of the show’s audience.
Stephen Rochester, 32, grew up “Jewish lite” in St. Louis, says his father, Marty. “So I was stunned when Stephen went religious with a capital R,” switching to his Hebrew name, Shaya, and adopting the black hat of Hasidic Jews.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Michoel and Zelda (nee Gutnick) Lerner (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter, Chaya Mushka.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Yisroel.
Zhitomir, Ukraine — A monumental event has taken place in Zhitomir. The new Mikvah, housed in a separate building, has finally opened. The old Mikvah was located elsewhere, in a building recently condemned due to its age, which is soon slated for destruction.
Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, who serves as the Chief Rabbi of Zhitomir, Central and Western Ukraine, led the initiative to construct a new building to serve as a Mikvah. He worked closely with the organization ‘Union of Zhitomir Jews’ to make this a reality.
Rockets explode nearly every day in the Israeli city of Sderot, near the Gaza border.
Yosef Eliezrie wanted to help. Even if he had to do it from his hospital bed.
While recovering last month from a shingles infection, the 21-year-old from Yorba Linda started a campaign to raise awareness of the town’s plight.
Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine — A presentation took place for the new teachers’ manual “The People of Israel are Alive”, which is aimed at eighth graders attending Jewish schools. The Ohr Avner Chabad Day School in Dneprodzerzhinsk is the first institution to use this book.
This successful project will benefit children in learning about the life of European Jews from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The teacher’s manual also includes methodological recommendations for teachers, maps, a glossary, and chronological charts (timelines showing the creation of the world until the modern era).
Emmanuel Rosenberg (Sydney, Australia) and Nechama Dina Trappler (Crown Heights)
IYH at Chovevei Torah 885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy.]
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mazal Tov to Mendy and Chanie (nee Kohn) Cohen (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Yisroel.
Rabbi and Mrs. Mendel Druk of Crown Heights have just moved to Cancun, Mexico where they will establish a new Chabad House serving the needs of the local Jewish residents and many tourists who visit the island.
The new Shluchim were appointed by Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch.
The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at mendeldruk@gmail.com
CrownHeights.info would like to wish the new Shluchim Hatzlocha Rabba on their Shlichus!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avraham and Nechama (nee Wasseman) Laber (Troy, NY) on the birth of a baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Birobidjan, Russia — In the Jewish Autonomous region, the state TV channel ‘Bira’ has just run its 100th edition of the show ‘Yiddishkeit’. This program took to the air two years ago at the initiative of the Council for the ‘Freud’ Jewish community of Birobidjan. Since its inception, it has become an indivisible part of the spiritual, religious and cultural life of its TV audience.
Chabad of RARA has recently dispatched Rabbi’s Mendel Grossbaum and Chaim Moshe Telsner on an eight week cross country voyage throughout Australia. The newest RARA boys will be traversing four main states in Australia – NSW, VIC, WA and SA and will cover more than five thousand miles in total.
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Spiritual Homage to a Fallen Hero
Maimonides’ (The “Rambam” — Rabbi Moses ben Maimon) magnum opus, is called “The Mishneh Torah” a work spanning hundreds of chapters and describing all of the laws mentioned in the Torah.
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