CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Tonight, Sunday at 9:00 PM will be the KSCVK drawing at the Oholei Torah Ballroom which will be aired live online.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Raphi Brown (Cleveland, OH) and Shoshana Tarshish (Chicago, IL) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
SYDNEY, Australia — Max Rosenbaum, whose son Yankel was killed in an assault that fueled violent race riots in New York in 1991, has died after suffering a major heart attack, relatives said Sunday. He was 85.
Rosenbaum died at a hospital in Melbourne late Friday, said his surviving son, Norman.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This Motzoai Shabbos hundreds of men enjoyed a unique evening, benefitting the Keren Simchas Choson VeKallas annual Chinese Auction.
List of winners and more pictures in the Extended Article!
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BROOKLYN, NY — The Fire Department said Friday that it believes a child is responsible for Thursday night’s Brooklyn blaze that killed a beloved lieutenant.
ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Five years ago, when Rabbi Alter Korf and his wife, Chaya, agreed to leave family and friends in New York to open southern Pinellas County’s first Orthodox Jewish center, they were full of hope.
Shmulik Zheliznyak (Minsk, Belarus) and Shterna Sara Heintz (Utrecht, Netherlands) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn {CHI] — Mispalelim of the Empire Shtibel Shul took part in a Farbrengen with Rabbi Kuti Feldman in honor of Chof Daled Teves, the day of the passing of the Alter Rebbe, this past Wednesday.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Moishe and Miriam (nee Plotkin) Notik (Montreal, Canada) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
BROOKLYN, NY — Eduardo Rothschild I. Caras is grateful he was not among the 300 beachgoers stung by jellyfish in S. Paulo on Sunday.
The 15 year-old Brazilian considered what he would be doing if he weren’t enjoying a Chabad sponsored trip that mixes Judaism, touring New York and skiing in Canada. He and nineteen others in his group drove in a gleaming white bus to a kosher ice cream shop in Brooklyn for a Sundae run minutes to midnight after Shabbat.
STATE COLLEGE, PA — Chabad Penn State recently inaugurated its own, brand new mikveh.
Constructed behind the Chabad house in State College, the ritual bath is located in a freestanding building that includes a waiting room and a spa-like preparation area – including a whirlpool and large shower with glass doors – in addition to the room that houses the mikveh itself. The official dedication was held on Dec. 9.
Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, one of the oldest Rabbis of Chabad in North America, is ill and has been hospitalized in critical condition. Rabbi Sharfstein was sent to Cincinnati over 50 years ago where he served as Rabbi of the City and was a member of the Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch Hakloli.
Tehilim in the Extended Article
BERLIN, Germany — Immigrants from the former Soviet Union are transforming Jewish life in Germany
In 1938 Julius Schoeps’s parents did what many German Jews who were prescient or lucky did at the time: they left. They went to Sweden, where Julius’s father worked as an archivist. Julius was born there in 1942.
With sadness we report the passing of Mrs. Eva Baron (Rockville, MD), Thursday evening, she was 92. She was the mother of Mrs. Chana Rachel Schusterman of Los Angeles, CA.
The funeral will take place Sunday at 11:00 AM at Mount Carmel Cemetery, 83-45 Cypress Hills Street, Glendale, NY 11385, (MAP)
Mrs. Chana Rachel Schusterman will be sitting Shiva in Crown Heights from Sunday evening 7:00 PM through Monday night, at 750 Eastern Pkwy, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Upon her return to Los Angeles, CA Tuesday afternoon, she will be continuing Shiva at her home 126 N. Fuller Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. She will finish Shiva by the end of the week.
Condolences can be sent to her at via email chanarachel@gmail.com, or her cell phone (323) 697-8094.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Tragedy befell FDNY’s Engine Company 249, when a member of their company, Lt. John H. Martinson, an 18 year veteran collapsed while climbing the stairs to the 14th floor of the Ebbets Field housing complex where a fire was raging in apartment there.
Members of Engine Co. 249 were responding to the calls of a woman trapped along with her children on the balcony of her apartment. Lt. Martinson collapsed on the 13th floor after suffering a heart attack while climbing the stairs.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
If you believe that a dead man is the messiah, does that disqualify you from converting to Judaism?
Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar will be asked to decide this weighty theological question and in the process pass judgment on thousands of members of the messianic stream within Chabad Hassidism who believe that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who passed away in 1994, is the messiah.
About two weeks ago a young FSU immigrant to Israel, who was eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return but was not considered Jewish according to halacha, appeared before a rabbinic court in Jerusalem to convert to Judaism.
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