NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — The International Awards Dinner of Colel Chabad was a highly-charged and powerful event held in the New York Hilton on Wednesday, December 19th, the 10th Tevet. The event benefits the oldest Lubavitch institution in the world, founded by the Baal HaTanya, the Alter Rebbe. Colel Chabad has been headed by each Chabad Rebbe since.
A large gallery of beautiful pictures in the Extended Article!
LITCHFIELD, CT — When Rabbi Joseph Eisenbach stood to address the Litchfield Historic District Commission this week at the final public hearing on his congregation’s plans to put a synagogue near the town green, a woman in the audience turned to the person sitting next to her.
“Watch,” she whispered, “he’ll talk about the Holocaust.”
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – Two accidents in two days, both involving the same truck and both in the same place, earlier this week. The incidents happened in front of the Family Dollar store on Lefferts Avenue and Kingston Avenue.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
ORACLE, AZ [CHI] — Camp Tzeirei Hashluchim in Oracle, Arizona is already eight days in progress. The children arrived from around the world to Phoenix Airport. As the many on-line school children were introduced to one another in the terminal, they were able to meet the friends they already new so well by name but never met them face to face. As one camper excitedly shouted after he heard the name of a child arriving “You must be my Chavrusa!” Most of the Shluchim in the camp learn in the Shluchim Office on-line school and don’t have the opportunity to spend time Davening, learning, talking and playing with other Chassidishe children.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shloimy Torenheim (Crown Heights) and Brocha Cohen (Beitar, Israel) on their engagement.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
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BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — One of the many adventures of Chanukah for the Students of Lubavitcher Yeshivah was the Mitzvah Tanks, which took them each evening to do Mivtzoim and bring the spirit of Chanukah to those who are not privlaged to celebrate on their own. Town & Village thought this was something special and decided to write up on it. The students featured in the picture are of Unit Chinuch of Chayolei Tzivos Hashem of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva, CH.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Tzali and Rivkie (nee Matusof) Wilschanski (Shluchim in Kenosha WI) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
NEW YORK, NY — After an unusually vigorous and spirited debate, the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted at 10:50 a.m. today to raise fares on subways, buses and commuter railroads and tolls on bridges and tunnels.
The M.T.A. chairman, H. Dale Hemmerdinger, called the vote “an important step in putting the transit system on a sound financial system.”
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Mordechai Gershon ben Malya Rochel, a yungerman with four children who is going through a long and difficult surgery, Today Wednesday.
Yehoushua Shlomo Zalman ben Feisel.
Yehuda Berl ben Miriam.
Leah bas Miriam is having heart surgery Thursday.
Today, Wednesday Yud Teves at 10:00 PM EST – 10:35 PM EST, there will be a Shiur with Rabbi Yossi Jacobson which will be broadcast live over the Internet, on this weeks Parsha.
The shiur will be availible online shortly.
Or you can call 785-686-2400 Access code: 770770#
Moshe Zenwirth has been waiting since June for a bus that hasn’t come – and likely never will.
The Borough Park yeshiva administrator was slapped with a $115 ticket after he parked at a “bus stop” on 51st St. – even though the closest bus route is one block north.
Since the June 13 fine was issued, Zenwirth, 34, has appealed the decision, but has been stymied by two city administrative law judges, most recently in October.
MOSCOW, Russia — President Vladimir Putin will confer a state award on a Chabad Rabbi for helping stop a young man who burst into a Moscow synagogue in January 2006 and stabbed nine worshipers, the Kremlin said.
Putin awarded the Badge of Honor order to Rabbi Yitzhak Kogan.
The Rabbis son, Yosef, a student at the Chabad school wrestled the attacker, is also due to receive an award from the Russian President.
Shiur for Women L’zchus Chana Bas Rasha Zelda
Tuesday, Dec. 18 – 10:00 PM
Mrs. Shterna Rodel – Los Angeles, CA
“Insights into Ches, Tes, and Yud Teves”
Thursday, Dec. 20 – 10:00 PM
Mrs. Ella Lerman
“1st of a two part series on the history of the Rambam” (in honor of Chof Teves)
The number for both dates is:
(605) 475-4150 Access Code: 770770
More than 40 people came out in support of the Chabad House-Jewish Student Center serving Indiana University Bloomington last week after vandals three a beer bottle through one of the center’s windows and removed the word “Jewish” from its facade.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Wednesday-Thursday-Friday, December 19-21, for holiday observance. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Click here for the 2007 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar and here for the 2008 Calendar.
Shmulie Lokshin (Crown Heights) and Bracha Minsky (Crown Heights)
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St, [bet New York and Nostrand Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
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