Picture of the Day – Darchai Menachem Group Pic
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Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chanochi and Tzivie (nee Rapoport) Hecht (Poughkeepsie, NY) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Brooklyn, NY — A fading, barely-perceptible, magnetic signal on a 35 year-old videotape is about to give a shot in the arm to Jewish communities around the world.
Filmed on the tenth day of the Jewish month of Shevat in 1972, seven hour-long reels of a Farbrengen, public address, by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spent three-and-a-half decades in a storage box. If not for a team of archivists and producers, it might have stayed there for another 35 years.
Video of the Day – JEM restores 1970’s Farbrengen
Brooklyn, NY — A fading, barely-perceptible, magnetic signal on a 35 year-old videotape is about to give a shot in the arm to Jewish communities around the world.
Filmed on the tenth day of the Jewish month of Shevat in 1972, seven hour-long reels of a Farbrengen, public address, by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, spent three-and-a-half decades in a storage box. If not for a team of archivists and producers, it might have stayed there for another 35 years.
Mazal Tov! – Thursday Night L’Chaim!
Chaim Leib Hilel (Montreal, Canada) and Miki Zalmanov (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 1394 President St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Aves].
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Please say Tehilim for Yaffa Zahava bas Sarah
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 10:15pm last night came the chilling calls for help from a patrolling Shomrim member saying that a pedestrian was struck by a bus and Hatzalah and 911 should be called. The member then began administering first aid to the victim and in attempt to stop the profuse bleeding he took his shirt off and used it.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Yiddishe Woman Critically Injured by a City Bus
Please say Tehilim for Yaffa Zahava bas Sarah
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — At around 10:15pm last night came the chilling calls for help from a patrolling Shomrim member saying that a pedestrian was struck by a bus and Hatzalah and 911 should be called. The member then began administering first aid to the victim and in attempt to stop the profuse bleeding he took his shirt off and used it.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sruli Bard-Wigdor (Crown Heights) and Ilana Amrami (S. Paul, MN) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at the at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [entrance on Albany ave].
PR News Wire
Chicago, IL — TV News has covered it and Chicago's big dailies have covered it more than once. The Mayor is behind it and there are hundreds of residents who live near it who are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see it happen.
Right now, the Center for Jewish Life project is a gaping hole in the ground at the corner of Clark and Chestnut on Chicago's Gold Coast with some intricacies embedded that are not so visible to the naked eye — like the Holy infrastructures of Mivkas (ritual baths) unique to downtown Chicago.
Emergency Appeal Launched by Downtown Chabad Seeks Funds to Complete ‘Center for Life’
PR News Wire
Chicago, IL — TV News has covered it and Chicago’s big dailies have covered it more than once. The Mayor is behind it and there are hundreds of residents who live near it who are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see it happen.
Right now, the Center for Jewish Life project is a gaping hole in the ground at the corner of Clark and Chestnut on Chicago’s Gold Coast with some intricacies embedded that are not so visible to the naked eye — like the Holy infrastructures of Mivkas (ritual baths) unique to downtown Chicago.
Chabad Rabbi Takes Award For Book on Comics
Shoshana Olidort – Lubavitch.com
Brooklyn, NY — For most of my life I’ve lived a Clark Kent existence . . . my desire to assimilate required no less.”
So begins Up Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero (Leviathan Press), a new book by Rabbi Simcha Weinstein that recently won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in independent publishing.
Rabbi Sholom B. Kalmanson - The Jewish Press
Lately, I’ve been reading some very strange things in various Jewish media outlets about the history of kiruv (outreach) in America. I’ve had to read some of these articles several times over just to be certain my eyes weren’t deceiving me.How can history be revised with such impunity? Anyone familiar with the development of Judaism in America knows that almost immediately after he arrived in the U.S. in March 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe proclaimed he’d come here to demonstrate that “America is not different” – that even in America one could live as a traditional Jew.
And so, as virtually his first order of business in America, the Rebbe founded the first Lubavitcher yeshiva on these shores. That very same day he also established Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad, thereby sowing the seeds of Torah-true education in America. The next day, he formally launched Chabad-Lubavitch outreach activities in the U.S.
Time To Give Chabad Its Due
Rabbi Sholom B. Kalmanson – The Jewish Press
Lately, I’ve been reading some very strange things in various Jewish media outlets about the history of kiruv (outreach) in America. I’ve had to read some of these articles several times over just to be certain my eyes weren’t deceiving me.
How can history be revised with such impunity? Anyone familiar with the development of Judaism in America knows that almost immediately after he arrived in the U.S. in March 1940, the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe proclaimed he’d come here to demonstrate that “America is not different” – that even in America one could live as a traditional Jew.
And so, as virtually his first order of business in America, the Rebbe founded the first Lubavitcher yeshiva on these shores. That very same day he also established Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad, thereby sowing the seeds of Torah-true education in America. The next day, he formally launched Chabad-Lubavitch outreach activities in the U.S.
The Weekly Comic – Parshas Korach
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One sixty second phone call could save our community millions of dollars on tuition.
With just one week left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.
But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer’s office today at (800) 319 - 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them: “I’m calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill.”
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts! After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code: “I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX.”
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know. It’s a simple call, every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!
With just one week left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.
But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer’s office today at (800) 319 - 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them: “I’m calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill.”
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts! After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code: “I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX.”
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know. It’s a simple call, every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!
YESHIVA TUITION BREAK – PLEASE ACT NOW
One sixty second phone call could save our community millions of dollars on tuition.
With just one week left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez and Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.
But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer’s office today at (800) 319 – 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them: “I’m calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill.”
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts! After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code: “I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX.”
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know. It’s a simple call, every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!
Boxes Teach Lessons of Charity
Four-year-old Mordechai “Motty” Slonim of Vestal puts coins into a tzedakah box. Such boxes serve as constant reminders to give to the needy.
Binghamton, NY — Family’s spare change offers help to those less fortunate
They’re boxes.
Big, little. Ornate, plain. Rectangles, ovals. Wood, metal, cardboard.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Tuesday, at about 10 AM Bnos Menachem had the police block off the street for their group picture.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Picture’s of the Day – Bnos Menachem
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Tuesday, at about 10 AM Bnos Menachem had the police block off the street for their group picture.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel and Nechama Dina (nee Katzen) Simons (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
A Brit Milah in Providence, Utah?
Stacey Kalish – Lubavitch.com
Rabbi Benny Tzippel, left, with the mohel, Rabbi Kreiman, at the entrance to Providence, Utah.
Providence, UT — There are so few Jews in this picturesque tiny town nestled between the Utah Rocky mountain ranges, that the idea of a traditional Jewish circumcision seems unlikely. But, as Chabad’s Rabbi Benny Tzippel says, by the workings of Divine Providence, that’s precisely what happened here when Providence saw its first proper Jewish circumcision earlier this month.
Detroit Free Press
Oak Park, MI — A high school and rabbinic college in Oak Park will get major renovations and new dormitories thanks to more than $2.75 million in donations.Alan and Lori Zekelman of Bloomfield Hills announced Monday they are giving $2 million toward Mishkan Israel on 9 Mile west of Coolidge. The 12,000-square-foot building, which also serves as a synagogue, is nearly 40 years old.
Gifts to Upgrade Jewish Schools
Detroit Free Press
Oak Park, MI — A high school and rabbinic college in Oak Park will get major renovations and new dormitories thanks to more than $2.75 million in donations.
Alan and Lori Zekelman of Bloomfield Hills announced Monday they are giving $2 million toward Mishkan Israel on 9 Mile west of Coolidge. The 12,000-square-foot building, which also serves as a synagogue, is nearly 40 years old.
Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yaacov Zwi and Nechama Dinah Spiero (Amsterdam, Holland) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
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