POSTVILLE, IA — A conflict between supervising rabbis at an embattled kosher slaughterhouse has become public, opening a window into the usually closed world of kashrut certification.
NEW YORK, NY — They were two fathers caught up in the storm of the 1991 Crown Heights riots – one black, the other white – who bonded over the shared grief of losing their sons.
Carmel Cato and Max Rosenbaum reached out to each other in their darkest hour to heal a borough split along racial lines.
Cato, 56, reached out again to Rosenbaum’s family Tuesday, placing a long distance call to Australia to express condolences over his old friend’s death.
BOYNTON BEACH, FL — A demographic survey commissioned by the Jewish Federation recently established Boynton Beach as the fastest growing Jewish community in the country, and the most densely populated Jewish area outside of Israel. In 1987, there were 9,300 Jews in Boynton Beach. The survey taken in 2005 reported a whopping 58,000, and most recently demographer Dr. Ira Sheskin estimated the Jewish population in the Greater Boynton area at 86,000.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Friedman of Borough Park. He is survived by his wife Yibadlu Lechaim Tovim Leah Friedman.
The family will be sitting Shiva at 698 Empire Blvd, [between Albany and Troy Ave].
Condolences can be emailed to mrosenfeld@maimonidesmed.org or call 718-778-1947
Hamokom Yenachem eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This morning a Crown Heights resident was shocked to find two tires on her car slashed in addition to an obscenity scratched into the paint on the driver’s side door, the car was parked on Kingston Avenue between East New York and Lefferts Avenue.
The incident if following a road incident near her home where another driver claimed that she had struck his vehicle and demanded she pay him, police were called to the scene and determined that there is no grounds to his claim, and that there was no collision. The driver began yelling at cops and then drove off.
More in the Extended Article.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The series of Maccabi games that annually span the globe aim to highlight more than just Jewish athleticism: They’re in the business of reinforcing Jewish pride. No where was that mission more apparent than in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, as a team of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students cooperated with the 11th Pan-American Maccabean Games to help contestants, their families, friends and fans embrace their Jewish heritage.
From the moment the more than 5,000 Jewish athletes arrived in the South American capital city, they availed themselves of a host of Jewish-enrichment activities, from putting on tefillin to posing questions to any number of the 20 rabbinical students who fanned out among the venues and mobilized a “mitzvah tank.” They even could munch on strictly kosher food supervised by Chabad-Lubavitch of Argentina.
Today, Wednesday, Beis Shevat at 10:00 PM EST, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha. There will also be a live Q+A following the shiur, email your questions to weeklylearning@gmail.com during the shiur.
Click here to watch this weeks Shiur LIVE at 10 PM.
Or you can call 785-686-2400 Access code: 770770#
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yaacov Leaf (Oak Park, MI) and Ita Klar (West Orange, NJ) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — At least 14 people, including a bus driver, were injured this morning when two city buses collided in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn this morning.
Police say a B-44 bus was about to go through the intersection of Empire Boulevard and New York Avenue around 6:30 a.m. when it clipped another B-44 bus from behind. The first bus then veered across the intersection and knocked over a traffic light.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yaakov Siev (Tzfas, Israel) and Shaindel Keselman (London, UK) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
NEW YORK, NY — Three lawyers walk into a synagogue.
Don’t wait for a punch line. It’s how a normal operating day begins at the Institute of American and Talmudic Law, which until recently was housed at Chabad-Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan.
January 8, 2008 — Hot times!
The weather was a balmy 62 degrees yesterday and it’s expected to be 63 degrees today.
That’s more than 20 degrees above normal.
And it’s expected to last through Saturday – with maybe a few showers here and there.
GIFFNOCK, Scotland — Jews in Scotland no longer need to drive hundreds of miles to either Manchester or London to experience kosher eating out as a new restaurant has opened in Glasgow.
L’Chaim’s Restaurant was set up under the auspices of Lubavitch of Scotland and run by Rabbi Chaim Jacobs and his wife Sora and aims to attract local residents as well as tourists travelling to the Scottish capital.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Nechemia and Devorie (nee Hershkop) Newman (Long Beach, CA) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT — A salvaged Torah Scroll, from Holocaust Europe, will be completed by having its final letters handwritten by participants in the dedication ceremony at 6 p.m. Jan. 17 at Chabad Lubavitch of Utah, 1760 S. 1100 East.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendel Stein (Oak Park, MI) and Devorah Leah Weingarten (Flint, MI) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Tuesday at FREE, 1383 President St, [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
JERUSALEM, Israel — The Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies, which for more than a decade has operated a yeshiva in the heart of Jerusalem for English-speaking men, celebrated its 11th anniversary this week with the inauguration of its first full-time class of 25 young women from around the world.
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