Following a recent initiative to expand the adult education services offered by Chabad-Lubavitch centers nationwide and abroad, Lubavitch Headquarters disclosed today through Lubavitch.com the names of 20 additional cities that have been approved for the program, for a total of 43 participating cities.
Port Washington, NY — A new Mikva has been built at Chabad of Port Washington and will be open as soon as they get a couple good rains and fills up the Mikva.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Baku, Azerbaijan — May 31st in the capital of Azerbaijan, a festive ceremony took place for laying the first stone of the Baku ‘Chabad Ohr Avner’ Educational Complex. This event signifies the joyous beginning a massive undertaking, sponsored by the Ohr Avner Foundation in partnership with the Geider Aliyev Foundation.
More picture in the Extended Article!
With profound sadness we inform you of the untimely passing this Shabbos of HaRav HaChossid Rabbi Eliyahu Engel OBM (70) of Crown Heights.
He leaves behind his wife Yehudis Engel, brother R. Yisroel Shmuel Engel (Pittsburg, PA) and children, Shternie Perline (Wesley Hills, NY), R. Yossi Engel (Crown Heights), R. Mendy Engel (Tamarac, FL) , R. Sholom Ber Engel (Melbourne, Australia), R. Shaul Engel (Bayside, Australia), Estie Benhamou (Melbourne, Australia), Zevi Engel (Brooklyn) and Zeldie Engel (Crown Heights).
The Levaya will take place Tomorrow, Sunday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadaas Chapel at around 10:15am and will be passing by 770 at around 10:45am
Baruch Dayan Hoemes
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Blood and spent bullets were seen scattered around at the intersection of Crown and Brooklyn this Shabbos afternoon.
According to eye witnesses two cars pulled up to the intersection where shouting and yelling was exchanged between the occupants of the two vehicles followed by gun shots.
The incident took place at around 1:00 in the afternoon where witnesses described a white van and a red sedan pulling alongside each other and exchange some shouting and two gun shots rang out.
S Peterburg, Russia — The entire Jewish community of S.Petersburg joined together in celebrating a joint Bar and Bat Mitzva ceremony, signifying the coming of age for numerous Jewish children from Russia’s northern capital. In accordance with Jewish tradition, this momentous event occurs for girls at the age of 12 years, while boys undergo this important ritual at 13.
This festivity represents the culmination of another year of activity under the city-wide ‘Bar/ Bat Mitzva’ project, sponsored and operated by the ‘Beit Chabad’ Community Center in S.Petersburg under the leadership of Rabbi Tzvi Pinski
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Rivky (nee Schmukler) Gurevitch (Offenbach, Germany) on the birth of a girl.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Click Here to watch a newscast of this incident.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL — A crane collapsed by Galt Ocean Drive in Ft. Lauderdale Saturday morning, crashing onto some power lines and damaging part of a synagogue.
The Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale lost power due to the crane tipping over and snapping an electrical line providing power to the temple and other parts of the area.
8-4: This was the form of the menorah: hammered work of gold, from its base to its flower it was hammered work; according to the form that the Lord had shown Moses, so did he construct the menorah.
Manalapan, NJ — This past Sunday around seventy-five people gathered at a ceremony in the Chabad House of Manalapan to witness 13 students of Yeshiva Beis Menachem receive their Semicha.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Shmuley and Rochel (nee Loebenstein) Goldberg.
IYH at 379 Crown St, [bet Brooklyn and New York Aves].
Zalman and Rochel Goldberg.
IYH at 370 Brooklyn Ave, [bet Crown and Carroll St].
Baruch and Shulamit Kaye.
IYH at Shain Shul, 390 Kingston Ave [bet Crown and Montgomery].
Zelig and Shifra Tabak.
IYH at 510 Crown St Apt 1B, [bet Kingston and Albany Aves].
Yossi and Sara (nee Lipskier) Langsam.
IYH at 648 Lefferts Ave, [bet Albany and Troy Aves].
Hillel and Brocha Bina (nee Hecht) Yanni.
IYH at 1484 Union St. [bet. Kingston and Albany]
Shmulik and Nuchi (nee Ives) Amitai.
IYH at 1548 President St, Apt B [bet albany and Try Aves].
Yitzchok and Laura Kupchin
IYH at 1650 President Street #2F [bet. Utica and Scenectady Aves].
Ezriel and Elky (nee Schtroks) Raitport (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 1739 49th St, [bet 17th and 18th Aves].
Ilan and Yael (nee Rahmani) Meyers
IYH at 613 E New York Ave, Apt 2LF, [bet Kingston and Albany Aves].
Shloimie and Shternie (nee Zirkind) Litzman.
IYH at 6 Kakiat Ln, Spring Valley, NY 10977.
Mordechai and Blima (nee Wolff) Wollenberg. (Shluchim to Birmingham, England)
IYH at 89 Carisbrooke Way, Cardiff Wales, England.
Mendy and Chana Rochel Zwiebel. (Shluchim to Chico, CA)
IYH at 526 W. 4th Ave. Chico, CA.
Mendel and Faigy Slavaticki. (Shluchim to Chicago, IL)
IYH at 6605 N. Whipple St. Chicago, IL.
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.
Albany, NY — May 7, 2007, Opening prayer for NYS Assembly by Chabad Shliach to Colonie, NY, Rabbi Yaakov Weiss, on the day after Jewish Holiday of Lag Baomer.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Gavriel Debson (London, England) to Chani Kramer (Johannesburg, S. Africa/London, England) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
There’s an old adage that says if you’re going to host an event you should always “leave ’em laughing.”
And on May 17, at the fourth annual Spirit of Community Dinner, a fundraising awards gala hosted by the Beth Chabad Israeli Community Centre to benefit the growing Israeli community in the GTA, that’s exactly what what they did.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Ezriel and Elky (nee Schtroks) Raitport on the birth of their baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
This video was shown at the West Coast Shluchos Banquet. Click Here to read the article about it.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Ilan and Yael (nee Rahmani) Meyers (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.
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