Los Angeles, CA — This is a group picture of the shluchim To Mesivta Ohr Elchanan Chabad who are completing their year on Shlichus/ The picture was taken in front of the yeshiva building.
The picture was taken by CrownHeights.info’s contributing photographer Hershel Gilbert McNabb
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid and Leah (nee Stein) Usiskin (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.
Miami, FL — It was a competition like no other, with a prize like no other.
Lubavitch Elementary School’s Tanya B’al Peh contest, for the first time since the school’s establishment, awarded free trips to visit the Rebbe in New York to eleven students who learned the most lines of Sefer Tanya by heart. The project, which captured the enthusiasm of the entire elementary school, resulted in a total of over 3,500 lines of Tanya learned by the student body of 275.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
New Port Richey, FL — If approved, the school would serve the eastern part of the county.
Nearly six months after two Tampa Bay area Jewish federations agreed to carve up Pasco, there still aren’t many new offerings for Jews in the eastern part of the county.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Chaim Leib Hilel (Montreal, Canada) and Miki (bas R Yisroel) Zalmanov (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
Crown Heights Maternity has just moved their business, which now includes a full line of Shabbos robes, to Kingston Ave. [between Union and President St] According to our source the move was made to accomodate shoppers, who now won’t need to Shlep to New York Ave.
“Meshane Mokom Meshane Mazal Letova..”
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuli Stiefel (Montreal, Canada) and Sara Dinerman (Crown Heights) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Tonight, Monday at Khal Chassidim (Baumgarten Shul) , 1612 Carroll Street [corner Schenectady Ave].
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Sunday, At about 1PM, the Dedication ceremony began, the Sefer Torah was completed in Ben-Tzion Keller OBM, then the dancing started with the new Torah under the Chupa, the procession passed through the streets of Crown Heights, stopped by 770 and then went to intended destination, the Aliya Center, where there was Hakafot, inaugurating and honoring the new Torah with singing and dancing.
Beautiful Pictures Gallery in the Extended Article!
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Early Sunday morning, at about 4 AM, Shomrim got a call from a homeowner stating that he was just in a scuffle with someone who had broken into his home.
The incident happened on Eastern Parkway between Albany and Troy. A Black male broke the basement window and crawled through the narrow opening, he then made his way upstairs while collecting things around the house.
More in the Extended.
Miami Beach, FL — When French Jews bid au revoir to their country’s laissez faire attitude toward anti-Semitism, where do they go?
Israel and French-sections of Canada are classic choices. But in America, the new address of thousands of French Jews is the Miami-Dade area, a county in Florida where immigrants are welcomed and the weather is just as inviting.
Birmingham, MI — About three years ago attorney Richard Bernstein, who was born blind and had never entertained the idea of being an athlete, was introduced to a running group.
Tomsk, Russia — This week, Israel hosts a visit by a delegation from the Tomsk Region in Russia’s western Siberian district. Among the members of this group is Rabbi Lev Kaminetsky, the Chief Rabbi of Tomsk Region and a Chabad emissary.
Headed by the Governor of the Tomsk Region, Victor Kress, the sizeable delegation was met by one of most important and renowned Israeli businessman, FJC President Lev Leviev. They also met with Israel’s Minister of Strategic Planning, Avigdor Liebermann.
Rabbi Avraham Levitansky, one of Chabad’s first West Coast shlichim, or emissaries, died in his home on May 27, following a long, undisclosed illness. He was 67.
Levitansky headed Santa Monica’s Chabad for 23 years. He was the first shliach brought to the West Coast in the mid-1960s by Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin. Cunin, the director of Chabad on the West Coast, was the first person the Lubavitcher Rebbe selected to appoint other emissaries.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Avi and Sara Rivka (nee Finkel) Bendetsky (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — This morning at Lefferts Park, the Friendship circle came together to watch the Crown Heights Softball league. The players gave them autographs and had a special game with them.
Gallery of pictures in the Extended Article.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shmuel and Rivki Karnowsky (Redondo Beach, CA) on the birth their baby boy.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
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