Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman Goldberg (Toronto, Canada) and Sheina Weiss (Charlotte, NC) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Monday night at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany ave].
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This weeks living Torah video is titled 'How to choose a Mentor' (Volume 36, Episode 142).
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Also available with Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
Video of the Day – Weekly Living Torah Clip
This weeks living Torah video is titled ‘How to choose a Mentor’ (Volume 36, Episode 142).
Living Torah is a member supported project, become a member today LivingTorah.org
Also available with Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Eliezer and Chaya (nee Baruch) Hott (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Oberlin student Robyn Weiss
tutored and cared for the children
of the local Chabad rabbi.
The city of Cordoba is not like Buenos Aires. The latter is the third-largest Jewish community in the world. The former can barely find a minyan. Buenos Aires is home to many Jewish stores, restaurants, markets and shuls. Cordoba has but one kosher mini-mart.
Challenges of living a Jewish life in Argentina
Oberlin student Robyn Weiss
tutored and cared for the children
of the local Chabad rabbi.
Cordoba, Argentina — You may not think you’re lucky to be able to buy pretzels in the market. But, after spending the entire month of January as a volunteer in the Beit Chabad of Cordoba, Argentina, I learned the value of a simple kosher pretzel.
The city of Cordoba is not like Buenos Aires. The latter is the third-largest Jewish community in the world. The former can barely find a minyan. Buenos Aires is home to many Jewish stores, restaurants, markets and shuls. Cordoba has but one kosher mini-mart.
Mazal Tov! – 8 Sholom Zochors this Week!
Shmuly and Shevy Kogan
IY”H at 888 Montgomery St #B9 [bet Troy and Schenectady Aves]
Faivish and Tamar Pewsner
IY”H at 23 Waverly Place, Lawrence NY
Yossi and Faigy Chapley
IY”H at 3 Golar Drive, Monsey NY [on the corner of Olympia Ln.]
Jonathan and Sarah Tuller
IY”H at 1427 S. Bedford St Los Angeles CA [bet Cashio St and W. Pico Blvd.]
Levi and Chanie Mondshine (Shluchim To Smolensk, Russia)
2116 Wightman St, Pittsburgh PA
Levi and Naomi (Nee Eliezrie) Blesofsky (Shluchim to Yorba Linda, CA)
Levi and Dini Kramer
IYH at 16830 Kingsbury St, Granada Hills, CA 91344
Moshe and Esther Laber
IYH at 6522 N Sacramento Ave, Chicago, IL 60645
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.
“The contract is one of the largest contracts we've been awarded,” said Alex Coleman, group president for the government and education unit of Verizon Business, the division of the telecommunications giant that won the contract. “It demonstrates that we are providers of advanced technology specifically around emergency and recovery services.”
Verizon Wins $195 Million 911 Contract
Verizon Communications Inc. said Tuesday that it has won a $195 million contract from the city to build a new 911 emergency network system for the police and fire departments.
“The contract is one of the largest contracts we’ve been awarded,” said Alex Coleman, group president for the government and education unit of Verizon Business, the division of the telecommunications giant that won the contract. “It demonstrates that we are providers of advanced technology specifically around emergency and recovery services.”
Bonita Springs, FL — Their new home is tucked away at the rear of a Bonita Springs strip mall, in a hall of a room containing only a table, an unhung portrait and a few stacks of folding chairs. Construction noise next door echoed through the mostly empty office suite from time to time, and outside the suite, there was no sign to indicate who rented this space or why.
Chabad Finds New Home in Bonita
Bonita Springs, FL — Their new home is tucked away at the rear of a Bonita Springs strip mall, in a hall of a room containing only a table, an unhung portrait and a few stacks of folding chairs. Construction noise next door echoed through the mostly empty office suite from time to time, and outside the suite, there was no sign to indicate who rented this space or why.
1. In this week’s Torah portion the idea of Sotah is discussed (Chapter 5, Verses 11 through 31). A Sotah is a woman who was hidden together with another man other then her husband after her husband zealously warned her saying “do not be alone with so-and-so”. The Sotah is brought to the Kohen in the Beis Hamikdash (the Holy Temple) and there is a whole procedure (the Kohen offers her the option of confessing to having relations with another man, if she still denies the claim the Kohen prepares a drink with the name of Hashem in it and gives it to her to drink If she was guilty she would die and if she was innocent she would gain great blessings). This is the case even if the woman did not actually sin with the other man, as long as she was hidden with another man she is brought to the Beis Hamikdash.
The Weekly Sedra – Parshas Nasso
The Rebbe says:
1. In this week’s Torah portion the idea of Sotah is discussed (Chapter 5, Verses 11 through 31). A Sotah is a woman who was hidden together with another man other then her husband after her husband zealously warned her saying “do not be alone with so-and-so”. The Sotah is brought to the Kohen in the Beis Hamikdash (the Holy Temple) and there is a whole procedure (the Kohen offers her the option of confessing to having relations with another man, if she still denies the claim the Kohen prepares a drink with the name of Hashem in it and gives it to her to drink If she was guilty she would die and if she was innocent she would gain great blessings). This is the case even if the woman did not actually sin with the other man, as long as she was hidden with another man she is brought to the Beis Hamikdash.
Now the Wolvovskys are set to formally open and dedicate Chabad’s new home east of the river n The Benet Rothstein Chabad Jewish Center in Glastonbury, a 5,000-square-foot community center that will house all of Chabad’s programming- from services and holiday observances, to adult education classes, to social events, like bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, etc.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
A New Home for Chabad: East of the River
Glastonbury, CT — Six years ago, Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky and his wife Yehudis ran the fledgling Chabad: East of the River from their small two bedroom apartment in Glastonbury. As demand for their programs grew, Chabad events were held in rented spaces at local schools or banquet halls.
Now the Wolvovskys are set to formally open and dedicate Chabad’s new home east of the river n The Benet Rothstein Chabad Jewish Center in Glastonbury, a 5,000-square-foot community center that will house all of Chabad’s programming- from services and holiday observances, to adult education classes, to social events, like bar mitzvahs, engagement parties, etc.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Moscow, Russia — When Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman knocks on the door, some people don't answer. Kuperman has the tough job of dealing with bereaved families. He tries to persuade them to provide a proper Jewish burial for their loved ones — and not cremate, the more popular option in Russia.
Rabbis in Russia Face a Battle Over Burial
Religious Leaders Struggle to Discourage Jews From Cremating Their Loved Ones
Moscow, Russia — When Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman knocks on the door, some people don’t answer. Kuperman has the tough job of dealing with bereaved families. He tries to persuade them to provide a proper Jewish burial for their loved ones — and not cremate, the more popular option in Russia.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yossi Pelman (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Rivky Lerman (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Farbrengen Edition - The Charlie Edition
Video of the Day – The Weekly Mendy Report
Farbrengen Edition – The Charlie Edition
The wounds were still raw in 1992, and the anger of blacks and Jews in Crown Heights surfaced once again.
Hasidic Jews took to the streets in protest after the acquittal of Lemerick Nelson in his first trial for the death of Yankel Rosenbaum. There were random fights, and a march over the bridge. Nelson was the only one arrested in Rosenbaum's stabbing death in the riots the summer before.
Leaders Work To Prevent Chaos That Once Claimed Streets Of Crown Heights
Crown Heights used to be synonymous for tensions between blacks and Jews. In the following Brooklyn, Then & Now report, NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez looks back at the days when those tensions came to a boiling point, and how community leaders hope a new approach will make such confrontations a thing of the past.
The wounds were still raw in 1992, and the anger of blacks and Jews in Crown Heights surfaced once again.
Hasidic Jews took to the streets in protest after the acquittal of Lemerick Nelson in his first trial for the death of Yankel Rosenbaum. There were random fights, and a march over the bridge. Nelson was the only one arrested in Rosenbaum’s stabbing death in the riots the summer before.
In preparation for Shavuos, Tzivos Hashem conducts Traditional Crafts of the Jewish People special Safrus workshop at Jewish schools all over the tri-state area. During the workshop the Michoel Albukerk and Shneor Fridman give the children hands-on training about the preparation of the parchment and ink and the special art of writing a Sefer Torah.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Shavuos Workshops are on the Road by Tzivos Hashem
In preparation for Shavuos, Tzivos Hashem conducts Traditional Crafts of the Jewish People special Safrus workshop at Jewish schools all over the tri-state area. During the workshop the Michoel Albukerk and Shneor Fridman give the children hands-on training about the preparation of the parchment and ink and the special art of writing a Sefer Torah.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Jewish Community Receives Its First Torah
It’s believed to be San Clemente’s first Torah as well.
San Clemente, CA — With the last few letters of Deuteronomy inscribed, a cheer went up – “Mazeltov!” – and a local Jewish congregation received their first Torah Sunday.
More in the Extended Article!
Hachnosas Safer Torah to Lehigh Valley, PA
Lehigh Valley, PA — A huge surprise awaited hundreds of Jews at the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, who gathered for a Sefer Torah dedication, when the shliach Rabbi Yaacov Halperin announced, “We are marching to the new Chabad House”. The new Chabad House will be shortly inaugurated and will be the center of a row of activities.
More pictures in the Extended Article
Children Celebrate with Torah in Bergen County
An impressive Sefer Torah procession was held on Sunday in Bergen County, New Jersey, joined by hundreds of locals. The canopy was prepared in a course of several weeks by tens of children of the Tzivos Hashem club of the Chabad House headed by the shliach, Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan. After filling the last letters, a parade and Seudas Mitzvah containing a special program was held for the guests. The Sefer Torah was donated by Reb Avremi Lerer of Crown Heights.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
