Mazal Tov! – 2 Tuesday Night L’Chaims!
Yossi Goodman (Highland Park, NJ) and Frumie Burston (Los Angeles, CA / Crown Heights).
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
Eli Muli Abramowitz (Crown Heights) and Devorah Leah Weiss (Crown Heights) .
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy, [corner Kingston Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
CHICAGO, IL [CHI] — The Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day Schools in Chicago under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf, has completed the purchase of a new building for the Philip and Rebecca Esformes Cheder Lubavitch Girls school.
The massive building which stands in the center and heart of the Jewish community at the busy intersection on Main St. and McCormick Blvd. is a brick building with over 60,000 square feet!
From a Theater to a Cheder!
CHICAGO, IL [CHI] — The Cheder Lubavitch Hebrew Day Schools in Chicago under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf, has completed the purchase of a new building for the Philip and Rebecca Esformes Cheder Lubavitch Girls school.
The massive building which stands in the center and heart of the Jewish community at the busy intersection on Main St. and McCormick Blvd. is a brick building with over 60,000 square feet!
FREEBORN, MN — Freeborn, Minn., doesn't stick out as a thriving metropolis by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, the southern Minnesota town, population 304, can't even lay claim to a grocery store, post office or school. But that doesn't seem to trouble Mayor Mark Rubin, currently serving his third year in the post.
Minn.’s Summer Growth Owed to Lubavitch Yeshiva
FREEBORN, MN — Freeborn, Minn., doesn’t stick out as a thriving metropolis by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, the southern Minnesota town, population 304, can’t even lay claim to a grocery store, post office or school. But that doesn’t seem to trouble Mayor Mark Rubin, currently serving his third year in the post.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Eli Muli Abramowitz (Crown Heights) and Devorah Leah (bas R Moshe) Weiss (Crown Heights) .
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Pkwy, [corner Kingston Ave].
Belarus Community to Restore Historic Synagogue
GRODNO, Belarus -– The Jewish community of Grodno has managed to attract the attention of a perspective donor for the restoration of its historic Synagogue. Chief Rabbi of Grodno Itzak Kofmann has been trying to raise funds for this major project ever since arriving here to serve as a Chabad Lubavitch emissary.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi Goodman (Highland Park, NJ) and Frumie Burston (Los Angeles, CA / Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tuesday night at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.
HONOLULU, HI — Growing up in London, Yudi Weinbaum would literally “never be found in the kitchen,” as he tells it. Today, at 25 years of age and half a planet away, he's in the kitchen six days a week at the helm of his very own deli on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
Hawaii Gets a Taste of Yiddishkeit With Kosher Deli
HONOLULU, HI — Growing up in London, Yudi Weinbaum would literally “never be found in the kitchen,” as he tells it. Today, at 25 years of age and half a planet away, he’s in the kitchen six days a week at the helm of his very own deli on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Please Say Tehillim for…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Ruchama Aliza Sara Chana bas Esther Liba.
She was found at the bottom of a pool and is in very critical condition.
BERLIN, Germany — The first privately funded Jewish community and educational centre in Germany since the Holocaust will open this week in Berlin as a symbol of the rebirth of Jewish life in the country.
Major New Chabad House to Open in Berlin
BERLIN, Germany — The first privately funded Jewish community and educational centre in Germany since the Holocaust will open this week in Berlin as a symbol of the rebirth of Jewish life in the country.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Faivel and Shoshi (nee Dubrow) Glicken (Los Angeles, CA) 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 your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.

While Some Lament French Jewry, A Jewish Community in France Blossoms
PONTAULT-COMBAULT, France — Few communities with 3500 Jewish families today have no Jewish community center. But this one in France’s 77th District, home to Euro-Disney, had not, until recently, a single hub of Jewish community life.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Tzali (ben R Moshe Nachman) Borenstein (Crown Heights) to Chana Mala (bas R Zalman A”H) Itkin (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) .
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave].
Let me share with you an interesting story as told by Rabbi Moshe Lazar from Italy at a recent Oholei Torah Dinner
Once while the Rebbe was walking on Eastern Parkway to 770, he noticed a group of boys fussing over a school bus, The Rebbe asked what’s the fuss over, to which the children answered “Oholei Torah just bought a “new” used bus. The Rebbe replied, “An old bus??!! Oholei Torah should have purchased a brand new bus.”
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Picture of the Day – Oholei Torahs New Busses
Let me share with you an interesting story as told by Rabbi Moshe Lazar from Italy at a recent Oholei Torah Dinner
Once while the Rebbe was walking on Eastern Parkway to 770, he noticed a group of boys fussing over a school bus, The Rebbe asked what’s the fuss over, to which the children answered “Oholei Torah just bought a “new” used bus. The Rebbe replied, “An old bus??!! Oholei Torah should have purchased a brand new bus.”
More pictures in the Extended Article!
The number of claims filed against the city has been dropping dramatically over the past years, a phenomena alternately credited on good law - and good luck.
In fiscal year 2007 there were 2,536 claims filed against the city for personal injuries related to broken sidewalks - the lowest number in a decade, according to preliminary numbers from the city Comptroller's Office.
‘TRIP’ SUITS VS. CITY IN A FREEFALL
NEW YORK, NY — Sidewalk trip-and-fall cases aren’t all they were once cracked up to be.
The number of claims filed against the city has been dropping dramatically over the past years, a phenomena alternately credited on good law – and good luck.
In fiscal year 2007 there were 2,536 claims filed against the city for personal injuries related to broken sidewalks – the lowest number in a decade, according to preliminary numbers from the city Comptroller’s Office.

Police apprehend Mugger
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday at around 7:30 PM, a 17 year old Bochur who was talking on the phone, walking on Eastern Pkwy from Albany towards Kingston Ave, was accosted by a Black male, who demanded his cell phone.
More in the Extended Article
CAMARILLO, CA — The Pleasant Valley school board voted last week to lease shuttered campus space to two educational programs.
School District Leases Out Space At 2 Closed Campuses
CAMARILLO, CA — The Pleasant Valley school board voted last week to lease shuttered campus space to two educational programs.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi (ben R Berl) and Chaya (nee Shagalov) Light (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 your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!.